Question:
Fishing boat jobs/Cannery. Any idea?
A friend of mine is interested in working in Alaska for the summer. da e
Does anyone have some phone numbers of companies looking for workers?
Answer:
- To the best of my knowledge, canneries do not have to look for workers;
workers camp out for days and weeks hoping to get a job on a boat or in a
cannery. Also if your friend is looking for some fast big bucks - give it
up. If he thinks he can just arrive and get a decent jog - I hope he is a
seasoned deckhand and knows someone
- I do believe that you are too late to get a job for the spring opening
of halibut and black cod openings, but you might still have a chance at
getting on for the summer, for a cannery job that is. Most boats that
I know of havetheir crews picked early, and the more the experience the
better chance you have of getting on a good boat.
Off the top of my head I don't know the address of ph# of Wards Cove
Packing which I know owns canneries all over the state. One cannery
they run in Excusion Inlet will start you out about $6.30/hr if you
manage to get into the freezor.
If that doesn't work try getting in touch with the employement office,
they would know which places are in need of work.
- Actually, if you get in touch with Wards Cove, they can usually set
you up with a job and they will pay for half your plane fair, you
choose whether its to the cannery or returning home. Reiterating
what's been said again and again, its best to have the job set up in
advance or else you only have two chances of getting one if you just
show up, slim and none.
I can't really say much more for seine boats, I've never worked on
one. Most of what I know can from just interacting with many of the
deckhands that I knew fairly well.
I know prices have dropped, still the place I worked last summer, we
were 10,000 lbs ahead in processing than the previous year and it was
mid August with at least another month to go. That included the drop
in price for all the species. We saw less gill net/seine fish and
more troll than the previous year too. At a few times, we were having
a hard time keeping up with the demand of our parent company.
