What It's Like to Move to Alaska and Become a Fisherman

I first came to Alaska while in school at Humboldt College in Northern California. I came up here with my brother and a childhood friend to work in a cannery on Kodiak Island in Bristol Bay, the largest wild salmon run on planet Earth, which is now in danger of being destroyed by a copper mine. We had a big summer adventure. Dillingham felt like we were in the past, not the modern world. Every night, a...