What's it like to be a Bristol Bay setnetter? Commercial fisherman Liz Moore, who returns to Naknek each year to fish for sockeye salmon, describes it as 'a life on the mud.' Produced in partnership with seattletimes and pulitzercenter
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During the harvest, Moore, 67, lives in a red cottage surrounded by lush green tundra. One hour before each high tide, whether that falls on a calm sunny morning or late on a stormy night, she heads outside, walks along a narrow boardwalk to the edge of a bluff, then scrambles down a long, steep ladder to reach the beach.
Her father, Denton Ricky Moore, was a restless World War II veteran who was wounded while serving as a sniper at Iwo Jima. He returned to his hometown of Seattle, then in 1947 headed off to Alaska’s Bristol Bay region with his then-wife, Jan Moore, who had been a nurse during the war. Tender boats are seen on the horizon beyond setnet fishermen at Pederson Point near Naknek. The large tenders buy fish from driftnet fishermen, while the setnet fishermen deliver to smaller tenders or to trucks on the beach.
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