Pollock Fishing in the Bering Sea, Alaska
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- Pelagic (mid-water) trawling for pollock fish. This is a compilation of still shot and video edited to show a typical fishing experience on this type of commercial trawler in Alaska from start to finish. Unfortunately there is no audio. This video was made in 2006 on F/V Highland Light.
Pollock is a white fleshed fish used for fish sticks, fillet 'o fish, and also a main ingredient in surimi (artifical crab). Other byproducts include fishmeal (fertilizer and animal feed) and fish oil.
This is hard work. Wow, I appreciate the people who work hard, especially those who are low-grown and do the hard work.
Wow! Wayback in the day I worked on board the Kodiak enterprise! Such wonderful memories watching this, I can close my eyes and still feel the movement of the boat out in the Bering Sea! I miss my fellow crew! The Bering Sea will always have my heart.
Did u step all over the fish too😑
Lol no I was a cook!
@@81flyboi ew
@@2fineee ew what?
@@81flyboi cooks are awesome
This video brings back memories of DUTCH HARBOR. I've worked at Unisea Inc and I sure do miss it. Offloading Crabs, butchering it, Case Up, Badder Driver and much more task I was assign on. Starting Pay wasn't enough but I was still pleased with it. Thank you Unisea and Dutch Harbor, I would still want to visit there again.
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I watched this fishing vessel, so impressed how modern this ship was, equipped with modern tech in different level fish processing with good brilliant caliber engineers who know their job,how to troubleshoot fixing the problem and with good timely management control.Most modern fishing vessel in the world.
Your description underscores why this is an unsustainable fishing method. It's too efficient.
@@hannabaal150 Pollock are sustainable lots and lots of them and they grow fast.
@@JacobPlante-uj3qo Any place or species can be fished out. It's happened over and over again because the methods of catching the fish are unsustainable. It's not the fish that are unsustainable, it's how the fish get caught. There are many ways to catch fish that are illegal for just that reason.
@@hannabaal150 "Pollock, especially Alaskan Pollock, is often more affordable than other types of fish due to a combination of factors: Abundance and Sustainability: Pollock is one of the world's most abundant fish species. Particularly in Alaska, it's managed tightly to ensure its population remains sustainable.Sep 1, 2023" do some research before you start talking.
@@JacobPlante-uj3qo Would being a commercial salmon fisherman in Alaska count?
I think we mean about the same thing. I define sustainable as the method of fishing as well as the fish. If a sustainable method isn't used, the fish won't be sustainable.
There was at one time a large salmon run on the Columbia River, but because the methods for fishing were unsustainable, the run mostly disappeared.
That fish paste I could brush my teeth with!!! Mmmmm. But man seriously though. These men work there asses off, good to see men working hard. Keep up the hard work men, y’all help make this world go around. Very impressed
That's why I call surimi (artificial crab) the hot dog of the sea. It reminds me of that "pink slime" you see in meat processing videos, just not pink. Gotta commend them for using as much as they can. I believe a lot of the fishing regulations incentivize using as much as they can, which allows the boats to catch more. Hence markets being created for byproducts like fish oil and fish meal (used for fertilizer).
Also to those brave fisherman out there risking life and limb to feed us I applaud you for your hard work
Are you crazy this is awful. This is not fishing not all these fish aren't even eaten they just go to waste. Terrible.
They want to live, just like us.
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これだけ沢山の人の生活を支えられるものが海から得られること自体が凄いと思いました。
with how many fish that net was pulling in im surprised that the sea isnt completely fished out within 1 week
The simplicity of farm life is so refreshing.
Once the fish are caught, does the cleaning, the packaging and the freezing take place on board the same ship that caught the fish?
SanFranciscoBay Everything takes place on the vessel. Fillets, surimi (paste that ultimately gets turned into artificial crab and other products), and bycatch species (cod/flatfish) is all graded, packed and frozen aboard on this particular vessel and offloaded on land or directly to a transport vessel (for shipment to foreign markets). This is what you call a factory trawler.
There are other smaller vessels that are catcher vessels only and they keep their catch in refrigerated salt water tanks on board for 2-3 days while catching before coming to shore to offload to a factory for processing.
Dave Wagenheim. The smaller catcher vessels you mention in your comment, when they store these caught fish for 2-3 days in refrigerated salt water tanks, are these fish stored alive, dead and gutted or do they die during this time and does the storage of live fish in cramped containers stress the fish causing them to release stress chemicals into their bodies which can change the taste of the fish making it taste worse?
SanFranciscoBay They generally are not in any kind of shape to live once they are dragged and compacted in the net when caught. Imagine the pressure as they are brought up in tons. No processing is done until they reach the dock and have gone through their stages of rigor mortis.
I can't speak to the quality of the meat with respect to stress chemicals. Certainly various styles of catching and processing impart different levels of quality to the flesh just by way of how they are handled.
In general, line caught (longliner) fish maintain a much better end product quality. There is bycatch with line caught, but a lot of it has a much better chance of survival if released properly. However, depending on the fishery, some line caught bycatch is destined for death simply due to the effect of pressure as its brought up from depths so quickly. Small air bladders expand and affect the internal constitution of fish. Some even come up with eyes that are pushed out. Probably a tough way to go.
Some fish, like pacific cod, whether trawl (net) caught or line caught is treated a particular way right after it is caught to keep the flesh quality high. It is sliced below the gills to be bled out. I'm not sure if it affects taste. It might just be to keep the flesh color as light as possible for consumer appeal.
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Frozen fresh at sea! #formervetbosun
I worked on the Heather Sea out of Dutch Harbor, and the Unisea Barge. Good memories.
Yeah, I was on the F/V Spirit and a few others out of Dutch, then others out of other parts. Definitely memories worth making.
I like how people assume based on no evidence that this is environmentally unfriendly when the pollock fishery is one of the best managed in the world. That or they cry and tear their garments over eating fish. This is where the majority of your fishsticks and fast food fish come from folks. Did you think the fish fairy dropped them off instead?
Pollock and hoki (a deep-sea fish species) are what those fish sandwiches from McDonalds are made out of.
It’s where majority of king salmon and halibut by catch go.
This is unfriendly. The draggers ruined the crab industry. You kill crab as bycatch and destroy every that your net comes across. There is a ton of evidence. Unfortunately, the draggers are corporate and the other fisheries are more privately owned. The big money corporate has the funding and power to make sure that their fisheries stay open even if that means killing the other ones.
Very impressive, how many hauls like that can he do before the ship is full? I like how the entire fish is used.
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how many hauls like that before the fish is extinct?
@@mrkeopele I think the environmental movement is sometimes overly dramatic and sensational but the one thing I believe is critical is the overfishing of the oceans... It's fact based science that we can observe in real time and we need more protected areas for massive schools of fish to return... Once we get the population low enough they will never come back....
AWESOME, BUT HOW LONGER THE SEA WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE THAT FARTURE?
I worked on a processor ship a little bigger than that one, that deck is called “factory” they all look so similar, some of those people in the factory Deck look so familiar. Lol
That is the trawl deck, where the deck hands work. Below that is the factory where fish is processed. At the aft of the boat you see where the fish drops into a lower part of the boat. These are holding tanks that have circulated water. The fish go through a resting process before they are run through the factory and processed and frozen.
Thanks for the strategies you have contributed here.
I was cool with everything up until the fish paste hahahahaha
I did this job on board of Suprem Alaska Processing ship. It was a good dollar earner job and carpal tunnel syndrome after a few sessions.
You either like it or you love it. At sea Processing is not easy but you make good money and I love the guys I worked with. This boat is fucking pumping out that mince and surimi though . I worked in the freezer plates and case up area shown in the video good times
Wow, great video!
Trevor Ford Thank you. It was fun to put together as a nice document of my time working on various boats in Alaska.
+Dave Wagenheim at 6.50, nice king salmon
Sad, theres no audio.
Just loud factory and deck noise. I could narrate over it, or subtitles.
How much coho bycatch did this boat bring in and throw back to sea?
Salmon bycatch on a mid water pollock trawler is variable but no salmon bycatch survive the experience, unfortunately.
Fisherman will move out of an area if they are catching a lot of salmon because it can shorten their season if they catch too many.
Is American seafood a good company to work for ?
I worked for them. It wasn’t bad.
what is the ground up fish used for
in norway ground fish used to be used mostly for fish balls and fish cakes and several other local variants
where you say mixed fish paste macaroni and white sauce and made (fish gratin) back when
most people bought whole fish from local fishermen and made their own fish paste by using meat
grinder ore modern food prossesors.. my guess reason for grinding say a fish filet you could say boil-fry-grill
is that most kids dont like boild fish hehe but if say made in to fish cakes-balls and mixd with flour-milk and spice
and onion and so on it cind of dont taste like fish.
nowadays you still can get to buy some fresh fish filet in the shops if you live near enough a fishing harbour
but most people buy frozen fish filets ore those blocks of frozen fish paste becouse its usually a bit
cheaper than top quality fish filets and make their own dishes althoug today most people buy
finisd fabric made meals they just can heat up in the oven ore microvawe.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_ball
Surimi, or artificial crab. The stuff you see in California Rolls (sushi). Also fish cakes in Pho (soup). Hot Dog of the Sea.
How many runs you need to do? Before the ship is loaded
Hard to say. Every catch is different. It obviously depends on successful fishing, optimal processing, and good weather. A boat like this could fill up in 2-3 weeks.
How many of these vessels are likely to be on the water?
I always thought if you're going pollock fishing, you'll need to go to Poland.
(rimshot)
comfortouch Poland is land locked!
@@deryckdavies2365 Baltic Sea is by poland so no its not landlocked
Oh yes! I cut the frozen pollock into 3-3 1/2 oz portions for large accounts like nursing homes and prisons!
sesuai dengan cerita andy tresnadi,proses tumang 2 hour o'clok yanmang tade....semua pakai mesin serba canggih god job sea man
@Dave Wageheim is it normal for processing to happen on a relatively small trawler such as this? What size is this vessel?
to respond for him yes it is normal and actually that is quite a big ship for the bering sea I made my money on the Rebecca Irene a 140 ft boat that could hold 22,000 cases of fish at 22 kilo's each
we have the best managed fisheries in the world in North America we ship are sea food around the world and import sea food caught by unsustainable practises and the people that comment on here have been eating that shit there whole life
read and educate yourself on fishing before you comment!!
I would so like to have access to that fresh fish meal for chumming when I go saltwater fishing.
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Interesting if you take in the fact, that most of those fish would have been returned to the sea, if caught on rod and line.
Yes ... lucky for them supplies of
pollock are infinite . No matter how many they catch there will
always be more ....
...f fwd 5 years ; I wonder where
all the pollock have gone ? There
used to be loads..! It's a real mystery .?
all they do is adjust the blades for smaller fish. may this boat sink.
This is real fishing!!! I like it.
Juuso Välimaa like your comment everyone else on here are bleeding heart liberals. I got message back saying that not only me but my family should be put in prison for me doing this kind of work.
I hope they think when they have a fish sandwich from McDonald's
Juuso Välimaa well said Shawn fished out of bruxham for many years if I want to get it home truth to the liberals I used to tell the kids my job was cutting the fingers of the fish for captain bird's-eye
@@shawndarling5855 The biggest and best fishing fleets are from die hard liberal Nordic countries. So I don't think liberals have an issue with fishing.
Inshore fishery is the real fishery. These things rape the seafloor and kill everything.
Nah, that isn't real fishing. That's factory work. Get on a seiner or longliner. That's fishing.
Man hand off loading good to see ppl working instead of some kind of machine
It's a lot of work for everyone involved. The captain and engineers have tons of responsibility. The factory workers work long hours doing repetitive tasks, the deck hands do very hard work and are exposed to the elements and put themselves in dangerous situations. The best job might be cooking, aside from the monitoring work I did.
Is audio a crime where you come from?
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9:17 And this is what is sent to Mcdonalds to make your fish"o"filet sandwich. "The leftover skin and bones"
Sweeping the oceans clean of life will eventually catch up to us. No life in the ocean = no life on land...
R.I.P
How do you stay in contact with friends and family?
Back in 2006 when I made this video, a vessel like this might have had access to email type messaging, but it was very limited by today's standards. I imagine most vessels have some kind of modern satellite based internet access, but I am not sure.
Usually, when we return to port, we'd use internet and phone on land to get in touch with friends and family.
How long before there are none left?
bring them to my table.thank u fisher mechanics..
Are mustaches compulsory on that boat ?
lol. Probably a cultural thing.
Being away from home for months in Alaska is a good time to experiment with facial hair. :)
What a load of pollocks (I'll let myself out)
Trawling is destroying multiple fisheries here in Alaska. The bycatch of this fishery(which fishes for lesser quality species) is destroyed in the process. These guys catch and kill many salmon, Halibut, and black cod and throw them over the side. Do not eat their products. Any imitation crab or fish stick product is a death blow to the ocean.
U are very wrong terribly wrong crab sticks are made of minced pollock, and I didn't see not one crab or salmon in the process.. can't beat em Billy? Join em
Lots of Halibut and Salmon bycatch is not economically sensible so boats typically move away from areas where there is a lot. But they do still catch some. I think the biggest crime related to this is that they must throw it back in the water and not eat or process it. The rationale is that boats might target areas with more valuable bycatch, which messes with the fleets that are actually permitted to catch those species. It's kind of like multiple economic cartels working together and orchestrated by their own lobby groups and enforced by the federal government.
That said, typical mid-water pollock trawling has relatively low bycatch rates compared to other types of fisheries, namely bottom trawling, which can be completely indiscriminate and tears up the floor of the ocean. Longline fishing can have bycatch but those fish are released as they come up, hopefully in a sensitive way, and can survive the experience. Deepwater longline bycatch is not so lucky, however, because the ascending fish's swim bladder expands and basically destroys the fish.
I went to do that job, how much they pay ? Lat me know please
15 k n 3 months if your in Seattle
Do some research by contacting fishing companies that run large catcher-processor boats out of Seattle.
This is where those damn fillet o fish come from
Yes indeed!
And artificial crab. (Surimi)
hello any job for deckhand
This is costal Valge?
Now Ronald McDonald needs to get busy making those tasty Fillet-O-Fish Sandwiches!
That was a lot of fish...mcdonalds...😳😭😘🐧
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Man can’t keep reaping the world of its resources like this , there will be nothing left in 20 years
I'd like so see a video on how pollock is transformed into fake crab.
Look up how hot dogs are made. It's probably very similar. Additives like sugar, salt, and binding agents.
What’s the name of this ship ?
The Highland Light
love se them pull load if fish in like THAT, keep the videos coming Brother's
No audio
sure would have been nice to heard about each step of the presses
I may narrate over it someday
Gordons pollock fish sticks with thick n creamy kraft mac n cheese 🧀 yuuuummmm
船の中で箱詰めまでやるんだから新鮮だよねー。
船乗りの皆様お疲れ様です。
How can I get a job on one of these boats, let me know
@Johnny Freeman thats what am about
Well, very interesting...I guess it's ok, as long as its sustainable. I like to eat fish.
it's overfishing
Pygmy Puff : I agree, just about any imitation crab, imitation shrimp, McDonald’s fillet of fish, Carl’s juniors fish sandwiches etc etc, come from this, I worked on a similar boat they called “Factory”processor boats
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the more you go back in time the more you shall see
No way in hell yall can desensitize that boat, no way.
The fillets are sold as cod, the paste is made fish cakes, the bones are fed to the chicken. This FACTORY ship destroys sea life and the fishermen who depend on their catch to survive.
Dave, I want to go there.
Check with companies in Seattle. Make sure you look them up to see if there are any complaints! Its dangerous out there, be careful!
if you purchase every item on their value menu it comes to less than the price of the value meal if you were to purchase them individually they are currently being sued for this exact reason
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@@jameskjv8236 4 years later I re read my comment. I have no clue what I was talking a out either LMAO
@@BenWinder108 Lol
Very neat to watch
This looks like a Fishy business for sure...
I couldn't work there..my heart wouldn't take it. Sad.
See kids this is where you spend the rest of your life if you don't work hard in school.
Tf you mean😂 it’s hard work and good money!
May as well enjoy this fish cake while watching this. After watching this I don’t think I’ll get another.
They unloading in Dutch Harbor i think
Yes.
Trawlers , helping sea bird populations
No doubt.
I am a fisherman, but to this scale is just insanely wrong
i agree
Hi Dave, can I have permission to use a few clips from your film "Pollock Fishing in the Bering Sea, Alaska"?
Many thanks.
Nina Constable For what purposes?
Anyone notice the salmon that was sorted out? 15:00
bonus fish for the employee who finds it!
that's what I was thinking!
I eat a lot of salmon when I'm onboard.
Sound ???
The sounds of a commercial fishing boat and its factory are intense and mostly unpleasant. I made the decision to not include noise because it would take away more than it added. If this was a professional video I could have dubbed in some carefully collected sounds.
@@davewagenheim please give pollack fish baby to iran To multiply this fish in Iran.
How do I apply ?
no sound? not interested
When you see this is it any wonder they are claiming our ocean will be out of seafood by 2050. The scale we can wipe out hundreds of thousands of fish in one catch is just insane. But yeah we have to eat. Takes a lot of fish to feed 7 billion people.
Wow catch more than enough to actually feed the hungry, and yet people are still starving?
This is a business. It costs a lot for them to go out on the cold and rough Bering Sea to try to make this all make sense and make a living.
I now understand why I pay 5$ for one small sandwich.
I worked on the arctic storm out of Dutch Harbor great memories!
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OMG !!!!! my children won't be eating fresh fish ....
Slaughtering, wrap, freezing and transport is a lot of work made by hand.
Must be a hard job to do this with hundreds and hundreds of tons over the time on the sea.
It's hard work but we're all very rugged men. 18 hr days 7 days a week 11.5 months/ yr. No holidays here young man.
@@chrissmith2921 thanks for your hard work Chris. I really enjoy the pollock you fish!
@@chrissmith2921 i just went n bought Gordon's pollock fish sticks very nice I paid 7.35 for a bag ate it with Mac n cheese yuuum
@@chrissmith2921 thanks Chris from queens,Whitestone nyc.
and still some people in the world are without food,,,,?
Long liner are the best 🌩
Yeah, this isn't fishing. It's factory work. I did this and I was on a seiner and an eel boat, those and long lining are real fishing. Best job in the field.
There are also long line factory vessels. And the long line setups are created to be as efficient as possible, similarly to how this net system is engineered, the goal is to maximize the results for the effort.
In my view there are lots of other benefits to long lined fish though, like the quality of the fish is better because it's not compressed in a net for hours. There's also a better survivability rate (by far) for bycatch of a longliner if they are in relatively shallow water. The deep water bycatch does not survive if they have a swim bladder because it expands as they are brought up quickly.
That’s crazy, the oceans can’t do this forever
For many fish, No. however, this is alaskan pollock. Arguably the most important fish. Every fish stick,fish sandwich, and so many other things rely on it. It is strongly regulated and sustainable(in the USA only)
Teringat waktu di kamchatkha.....bearing coy
The same process with my ex kapitan bolshunovskiy... good process best quality
*How to make yourself hungry.*
And people wonder where all our fish are going??
McDonald's Fillet O Fish sandwiches, Artificial Crab (Surimi), Frozen Fish Sticks.
HUGE azz yellow birds deployed at 1:30
What a criminal waste of expensive netting. Surely someone will notice it's only the last 20 feet that ever has any fish in it.
Why don't you show us a better design?
Well that's the end of that species.Bon appetite!
Shut up
makes you wonder dont it
@@johncholmes643 bog off.
Needs sound, inlanders don’t know what’s happening
9:42 mmmm delicious fish poop tube. This is pretty horrendous.
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we are so aware of our horrific so called fishing, know the truly bad in it all, imagine overseas where those people do it and dont care, and are sneaking over here to our waters. Sustain that.