In the first several years of our marriage, my wife, Eliza Owens, and I taught school and began our family in the Bristol Bay watershed villages of Port Alsworth and New Stuyahok. We fell in love with the people and the place that is home to the largest sockeye salmon run in the world.

This was our ninth year setnet salmon fishing and our third year processing to bring the best food in the world – wild Alaskan sockeye salmon – back to our local community.