Delivering Our Halibut Haul! Cleaning Up, Prepped, and Ready for More Halibut!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Time to offload our catch and get all cleaned up. On this trip, we sold our halibut directly to the processor, so their crew comes down and does all the work offloading. We get to kick back and enjoy the morning and afterward we get the boat cleaned up, take ice and prepare for the next trip.
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This is a great perspective that makes very clear how much work is done to bring quality food to the table. You guys do more work in a day than most of the rest of us do in a week. Thanks for sharing. Much respect for the effort
Appreciate the comment Craig! That is our goal to show you a small scale operation and how we handle our fish.
Matt you work so hard, your amazing. Wish most of the younger people here in Portland OR would work as hard as you. You should be proud of yourself. I hope Dad pays you well. :)
Loving your care, ethics and attention to detail, great job from the UK!
Thank you very much Kev. Best wishes from all of us across the pond (and up the hill). Be safe and well!
Good fisherman. Obey the rule 👍👍👍
Keep it up
I really love fishing. When I was young, I used to go out sometime with my Dad to go fishing in a river. Now that I am working in a university, I wish I could go out to the sea and experience how to fish and catch different kinds of fish. I like watching your videos. It's fun and entertaining. I bet your having fun too!
That's awesome, some good memories I'm sure. Hope you can get back on the water someday, it really is a peaceful place. We have tons of fun!
Wow, caught the conversation of the processing workers. Did not know there were some Latinos in Alaska. Great video.
These folks are from El Salvador. They have been our friends for many many years. Maybe twenty years now. Great people and hard workers.
You need a car wash truck scrubbing brush on a stick buddy. Would make the job much simpler and quicker.
Great job guys! Enjoyed your video.
Thanks Chad. Best wishes for a safe, prosperous season!
Congratulations, great video !!
Thank you Rodrigo! Glad you enjoyed it.
great job💕
just found your vid the other day cheers from NEW ZEALAND good luck
Thank you for watching!
Nice job done guy's
Stay safe.
clean fisher man, which is rare I guess
Great job 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
I likeee👍👍👍💪from indonesia
Grate work bro.
Thanks Khan!
almost better to have the orange tote inside the hold. hook it up and out. great videos btw.
The totes only hold 800# or so. There was over 3K in the hold on that trip. Also better cooling when fish are slush iced. Total immersion results in complete and rapid cooling.
Nice, awesome..
Thank you for your comments, Ronald! Glad you enjoyed.
Hoping to move to the Alaska Panhandle or lower shoreline someday. Just saying, I thought the blue tub was gonna take out the camera XD
Beautiful place to live! Yeah, now that you mention it, that was pretty close!
Awsome
Thank you, Bubba Lou!
They have crisscrossed sharp teeth and their gills are sharp too. Once I accidentally put my finger in one of them mouth while cleaning it. I have a hard time pulling it out. Regards from the Philippines 😊
Yes, they are very sharp. Our gloves get torn up when cleaning them, I would hate to do it barehanded. Thanks for watching Erwin!
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Once again it's me with a question that came to mind. Do you ever set gear at night? And a suggestion: maybe you could explain what the fish are that you return to the water and why. Especially why. I heard you explain once but you spent about ten seconds and I didn't catch it all.
hai, Im from indonesia. great fishing bro
Thanks Belajar.
Interesting video, more videos please. Watching from Dubai
Thanks Alvis. More on the way. Thanks for watching.
@@EISAlaska most welcome brother and good luck. God bless
What do they do with heads? Are the cheeks removed??
Are the halibut the only fish you gut on the boat? What do you do with the octopus you catch? This may seem like a silly question but is there a shrimp fishery up there? Thanks, I really enjoy your videos.
When selling to local processors, most species with the excepting of halibut are sold in the round. The octopus are used for bait, and in the past sold locally. We plan to start selling octopus on our website next year. There are shrimp and prawn fisheries throughout Alaska, most notably in SE Alaska.
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The smell of victory is very fishy . good vid
Don’t they take the cheeks ? Best part of the fish in my opinion.
I agree! We have them custom processed for our own markets.
How does your quota work? Do you have a total overall quota for the boat and you work it down every trip? or is there a daily or weekly quota you try to max?
Will you fish new bottom every trip or go back where the fishing was good the previous trip and see if there are any fish left there?
Hi Mike. The halibut IFQ (individual fishing quota) is a pretty complicated program, but essentially the rights to harvest are owned by individuals and corporations in the form of shares. Every year after stock assessments are done, the TAC (Total Allowable Catch) is set for the following year, and it is divided by the total shares in that area to determine the divisor. Once that is determined, you divide the shares you own by the divisor to arrive at the pounds you are able to harvest for the year. There is no limit on how much you catch per day, per week or by trip as long as you do not exceed your yearly quota.
We do fish the same areas on the next trip if the fishing is good, or we may look around nearby if the bottom and depths seem similar.
Halibut can move around pretty quickly and sometimes they leave an area after a few days, other times they continue to fill back in and fishing can be good for several trips in a row.
I am starting work on a new project about the history of the Alaska halibut fishery and hope to have it done later this year. It's a fascinating fishery that has endured for centuries and should make for some good content, so stay tuned for that.
Also we really appreciate your comments and questions. Thanks for watching Mike!
@@EISAlaska
Thanks for all your responses I appreciate it.
I'm on the east coast canada and in our area the tac is equally divided between all the liscence holders. theres openings in spring and fall. It will open usually for a week. Theres lots of people who sign up so the quota is only 750lbs to 1000. Not everyone goes and not everyone gets their quota so they then recalculate what's left and reopen a couple of weeks later. The quota cant be sold or transferred. Nobody uses snaps here so that's why I have so many questions. I'm trying to see if I can't make things easier and more efficient.
@@mikewilliams-no9cm Interesting. Can the licenses be sold or transferred, or is it open access? In Alaska we have a combination of licensing requirements depending on if the fishery is federal or state. Both have fisheries that are open access, and the federal also has quota share and catch share fisheries. Alaska state constitution prevents ownership of the resources, so inside three miles we have a combination of open access and limited entry fisheries. With a few exceptions all state fisheries are a free for all, and close when the TAC or GHL is reached.
Snap on works really well for a small operation. Most of the time it's just Matt and me on the boat for halibut, and we easily run 1000 hooks a day and have run 1500 on a longer day. Baitup takes two of us about 3 hours for 1000 hooks, and Matt often rebaits as we are hauling gear and then we can set back if needed.
Another nice thing is you can stretch the hooks out on new ground as you prospect, and snap on heavy when you get on good fishing. Gear work is done as you haul and pin the hooks and snarls are easy and fast to deal with. As always pros and cons to both snap on and fixed gear, but it works good for us.
@@EISAlaska it's all federal for us. The government doesnt issue new liscenses so what's out there is all there is.they can be sold. Theres no recreational halibut fishery at all. Its illegal to even target halibut here unless its commercial. Same with lobster and crab. Which is kind of nuts but it really protects the fisheries.
Theres alot of work to the fixed gear especially when theres more then one fishery going at once and you dont have time for baiting. Its usually just me and another guy on the boat so having one of us stuck coiling gear down doesnt seem efficient. I dont think I could spare space for a big reel on deck tho so I was thinking about trying tubs of rope that fit under my lobster hauler and letting it coil down in those.
What time of day do you normally do your set and do you haul it back the same day?
@@mikewilliams-no9cm Wow, thats crazy. Subsistence gets priority in Alaska. Commercial then sports fish. But we also have lots of resources and a small population base. We do have lots of conflict between commercial and sport when it come to allocations in some parts of the state.
Our buddy fishes halibut out of his skiff using tubs and snap on gear. it seems to work fine for him. Nice thing is you could still use your current hauler, and it would be easy to test out with a shot of bouyline, assuming it is the same size as your groundline, that would save the expense of a reel. I would suggest rigging up a line guide and setting tube like we have, it essentially eliminates the possibility of getting hooked or a gangion wrapped around your hand.
Just for reference on size..our reel has 12 full skates on it with room for a few more. Weight is 1500 lbs with line on it, and frame is 43" wide, 55" long and 54" high. The drum is 40" dia. and 48' long.
Anyone watch the day this was posted ?
You did! Thanks for watching Lexington.
Any idea what they do with the heads? I assume something or they wouldn’t pay you for them?
Hi Erickson family. Great question! The fishermen are actually paid on the net weight (head off and gutted). We are required to deliver the halibut with the head on to validate that they meet the legal minimum size of 32". Technically we are entitled to keep the heads if we want, and we often do. We will have the cheeks cut out and processed for our direct market customers, and keep the rest for crab hanging bait. They also make great soup and stock. The processors will also remove the cheeks and the rest of the head will enter the fish waste stream (we have a fish meal plant in Kodiak), unless they have a market for bait. Thanks for the comment and for watching!
Why do you use different processors??
The processor we used exclusively closed up shop in 2022. We switched to another small scale local processing plant that does a wonderful job filleting and packaging our product. We couldn't be happier with the quality and attention to detail.
Would love to know why the other guys unpack the fish? Wondering if its from the old days and tradition just carried on? As in fisherman would be tired so they unload Awesome vids mate.
Hi Dan. Nah nothing like that, although cooler sounding than my reason. These fish are being sold to the processor plant, so they send their own dock crew down to offload the boat. Appreciate you watching, thanks!
How much the boat price .i just want to know. Tks
COULD YOU USE THE HALIBUT HEADS FOR CRAB BAIT
We have in the past, depends if the timing is right. Thanks bod.
Cân được bao nhiêu Dolas ???
What do you do with the octopus?
Processor buys them, not really sure if they go to food or bait market.
Hi..Johann from South Africa, great video and following as of now..LOL!! Is it the responsibility of the processing plant to remove fish from the boat or just the way it works? Also, do you have to buy the ice you take on?
Hi Johann. In most cases the processor unloads the vessels. If we deliver to a tender, we are responsible for unloading. Ice is provided by the plant if you deliver to them, and we pay for the bait, unless they have have some fresh discards that they can give us. Cheers and thanks for joining us.
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Do they not use the cheek meat what a travesty if they dont that stuff is delicious
Not sure about this particular case, since we sold to the processor. When we have our fish custom processed we do have the cheeks cut and packaged to sell. They are good!
Hi, i from for russia, n ice show)
Thanks Grifon!
How much do they pay per pound?
Last fall in Kodiak around $5 per pound. This spring $3.25- 4.00 a pound.
how can I gei some of that halibut in aus ?
Hi bob, unfortunately, we can't ship internationally.
Who pays the guys yanking to Halibut out of your tank?
They are employed by the processing plant that purchased our halibut.
PLZ Keep the cameramen's clean,,,,
how much a pound ?
Price hovered around $5- $5.60 lb this year in Kodiak. Timing makes a big difference!
@@EISAlaska Thanks for the info, i want to eat Halibut... but at the market they sold around at 15 - 24 a pound.
filipino workers guys who cut the fish.. nc..
The way they cut the heads is real bad and slow,there are machines for that,not only its a perfect cut but you are far from the blade all the time,you just push the fish in it,we cut 40 tons of fish in 2 hours with 2 machines here in Norway and its only 1 man per machine,the heads fall in to a tub.
Good call BigStef! Most plants here have a guillotine. Basically a blade mounted on a hydraulic ram, with hand restraints to ensure safety. This plant however rarely buys halibut, so they used what they had available to them. In this case a commercial meat saw. Certainly not the safest or ideal machinery for the job! Thanks for the comment.
Nice catch guys but dont sell your catch get a cold storage locker and sell to the fish market they dont give u what your worth on the docks screw them fish buyers u can double your profits by your self i bought halibut heads for 2 cents a head in 1977 when i was a fisherman and worked on a boat for the ride from southeast alaska to bellingham cold storage with 1500 lbs of halibut cheeks and at 16 bucks a pound i had no problem selling them so go brothers sell your fish your self
Thanks Richard. We direct market the majority of our catch. Pretty much everything except the pinks.
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No safety for arms and hands into the chopper company....
True, they don't have the best set-up, but you gotta do what you can. Thanks for commenting, SSL.
working so slow
Hmmm maybe, but these guys pay their dues. Lots of hard days and nights, poor conditions and low pay. Can't blame them for taking it easy on a beautiful day!