Meet the Fishermen
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Dan Baker
Dan Baker ties his boat up next to the Piasano Brothers Fish Buyers in Bodega Bay.
Bill Blue
Blue's dream as a child was to fish on a tuna boat.
George Boos
Boos, out of Bodega Bay, just recently retired from fishing after 23 years in the business.
Tom Capen
Tom used to watch the dory fleet out of Newport, California, as a kid and realized that he could make a living doing something like that.
Bob and Doris Carraher
Bob and Doris Carraher are one of the many husband and wife teams that fish California's coast on their F/V Happy Trails.
Fred Cefalu
Cefalu can tell you the day he started to fish; it was his sixteenth birthday - March 1, 1947.
Larry and Barbara Collins
Larry and his wife Barbara have been fishing for 22 years out of San Francisco.
Carlos Codorniz
Codorniz has fishing in his blood. In the "old country", the Azores Islands he grew up in a fishing family.
Vicki Crow
Crow sells a variety of fresh fish off the F/V Tina Louise most weekends.
Travis Evans
Evans got his start in Commercial Fishing during World War II when the public and troops needed fresh fish.
Ed Ewing
After 45 years of fishing, Ed - or Fast Eddie as he is known around Morro Bay - knows what he is talking about.
John and Jeff French
The Frenches are second generation fishermen who have fished as a team for over 25 years.
Tom Hafer
Hafer is right in the trenches when it comes to all the new regulations that have taken place in California.
Mike Hudson
Hudson got started fishing commercially after he found sport fishing was becoming too expensive.
David Kubiak
Kubiak is a third generation fisherman of the highest caliber and has been fishing since age 11.
Chris Lawson
When he isn't out fishing for Dungeness crab, salmon or albacore, Chris Lawson is the President of the Bodega Bay Fisherman's Marketing Association.
Joe Mantua
Joe Mantua of the F/V Haida Queen and F/V Haleakala has been fishing since he could walk.
Joe Nungaray
Joe Nungaray doesn't know what got him started fishing, he just knows he has wanted to fish for as long as he can remember.
Jeremiah O'Brien
O'Brien thinks his Grandpa would be proud to see that he is carrying on the family tradition.
Dick Ogg
Dick has fished his F/V Miss Peggy for the last six years, and in 2007 was awarded the Golden Hook Award by the Bodega Bay fishermen.
Paul Pellegrini and Family
Pellegrini has fished for 35 years out of Eureka, California.
Tom Roff
Roff hails from a family of SLO County farmers and today he is a commercial fisherman.
Mark Tognazzini
Tognazzini is a commercial fisherman who also helps run a family restaurant and fish market.
Brian Williamson
Williamson started sport fishing as a child and loved it some much he decided to make fishing his job.