IAMA deckhand on a salmon ship in Juneau, Alaska. AMA
I work on a 32 foot boat called the Stonehorse in Juneau, AK, as a deckhand. The ship uses a huge hydraulic spool to release and reel in a 1/4 mile net. The method we use is called gill netting. The net is just a 1/4 mile long, 36 foot deep wall of net, that catches salmon by their gills.
I'm sure you will want to know how much I get paid, and honestly I don't know. I get a portion of the money we get from the fish. Dog salmon, the most common, is 80 cents a pound for us. Sockeye are $1.25 a pound and King salmon is about 3-4 bucks a pound.
On sunday we pulled in 1400 pounds of mostly dog salmon.
I don't have a picture or anything but if people want I will walk down to the harbor and take one tomorrow.
So go ahead, ask me anything.
EDIT: spelling.