A BRIEF FISHING HISTORY OF GIG HARBOR
I’ve written about Gig Harbor and salmon purse seining several times while describing my experiences when in high school and college working on purse seine boats in Alaska and here in the San Juan islands. See https://paulluverajournalonline.com/weblog/2023/06/purse-seine-fishing-in-the-northwest. also: https://paulluverajournalonline.com/weblog/2021/10/the-gift-of-working-on-salmon-purse-seine-boats. It’s unique that I ended up living in Gig Harbor, where Lita and I have made our home for the last twenty-five years. That’s because I was born and raised in a very similar fishing & lumbering town of Anacortes and fished…