Having been born and raised in Petersburg, Alaska, a loudly self-proclaimed and actual fishing town, I graduated high school with the attitude that commercial fishing was just another job. To me it was what people did who weren't adventurous enough to escape to another culture. Some of my friends and I even referred to Petersburg's Mitkof Island as "The Rock", a ridiculous comparison to Alcatraz Island, home of the infamous maximum security prison. Not that this is a unique sentiment among adolescents towards their hometowns, but for a town with so many boats it seems silly.
Commercial Fishing for Adventure
Commercial Fishing for Adventure
Commercial Fishing for Adventure
Having been born and raised in Petersburg, Alaska, a loudly self-proclaimed and actual fishing town, I graduated high school with the attitude that commercial fishing was just another job. To me it was what people did who weren't adventurous enough to escape to another culture. Some of my friends and I even referred to Petersburg's Mitkof Island as "The Rock", a ridiculous comparison to Alcatraz Island, home of the infamous maximum security prison. Not that this is a unique sentiment among adolescents towards their hometowns, but for a town with so many boats it seems silly.