Fishermen & Boats Kevin Wilson, deck hand of the Fishing Vessel Curragh, picks freshly caught sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also known as red salmon and blue back salmon, on the back deck of a 32 foot long salmon gillnet fishing boat, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 28th June 2008 A salmon gillnet fishing boat fishing for sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) lit by the morning sunrise, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 30th June 2008 Joe Picha, deck hand on the Fishing Vessel Curragh, holds a freshly caught sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in one hand, scales and blood from other fish coat his overalls, back deck of a 32 foot long gillnet fishing vessel, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 30th june 2008 Multiple gillnet fishing vessels setting their fishing gear directly on the Southern Line of the Naknek River fishing district, salmon swim with the flooding tide and so these boats are setting their nets as close to the salmon as possible (known as ‘fishing the line’) in what is often a fiercly and sometimes dangerously competative fishing tecnique, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 30th June 2008 Kevin Wilson and Joe Picha, deck hands on the Fishing Vessel Curragh, set their fishing gear at dusk, the drum is spinning very fast as the fishing line spills into the water, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 30th June 2008 Kevin Wilson and Joe Picha, deck hands on the Fishing VEssel Curragh, admire the setting sun while waiting for orders from their captain to set the fishing gear, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 29th June 2008 Kevin Wilson, deck hand on the fishing vessel Curragh, holds a freshly caught sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) on the back deck of a 32 foot long gillnet fishing vessel, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 28th June 2008 Kevin Wilson, deck hand of the Fishing Vessel Curragh, holds a freshly caught sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also known as red salmon and blue back salmon, on the back deck of a 32 foot long salmon gillnet fishing boat, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 26th June 2008 Kevin Wilson, deck hand of the Fishing Vessel Curragh, looking out to sea on the back deck of a 32 foot long salmon gillnet fishing boat on his first day of the fishing season, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 26th June 2008 Kevin Wilson, deck hand of the Fishing Vessel Curragh, standing on the back deck of a 32 foot long salmon gillnet fishing boat on his first day of the fishing season, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 26th June 2008 Ben Blakey, Captain of the Fishing Vessel N20, standing on the fly-deck of his 32 foot long salmon gillnet fishing boat on his first day of the fishing season, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 26th June 2008 A lone Bristol Bay gillnet salmon fishing boat, 32 feet long these boats tend to crewed by three people, one captain and two deck hands, Nakenek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA A salmon gillnet fishing boat fishing for sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) at twilight, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 30th June 2008 Daniel Blakey, captain of the fishing vessel Curragh, navigates through the maze of fishing gear from the fly-deck of the Curragh. Fishing the line is intense with action as hundreds of boats fight to set their gear as close to the incoming salmon as possible. Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska.