Alaska is a place of many names. The Land of the Midnight Sun. The Great White North. The Last Frontier. For those who have experienced this wild land, images of northern lights dancing around unnamed peaks, rugged shorelines, wide mighty rivers, and glaciers crashing into the sea are permanently etched in their memories. 

Alaska is also a place of wild adventure and unimaginable size and scale. If you spend a lifetime exploring this vast state you will find 2 oceans, 3 seas, over 3 million lakes, 3,000 rivers, 1,800 islands, 47,000 miles of shoreline and more than 100,000 glaciers. Alaska is 2.6 times larger than the state of Texas and 1/5 the size of the continental United States. Amid all of this, people make fortunes working in the commercial fisheries every year. 

Because Alaska is so huge and the fisheries are so complex, we have structured this book so you will be able to narrow your job search down to the area right for you. By finding the right job in the right place, not only will you make a great deal of money, but you will also be prepared to explore these incredible regions of the state...

• Southeast Alaska/ the Inside Passage
• Prince Williams Sound
• Cook Inlet/ Anchorage area
• Kodiak Island and The Aleutian Islands 
• The Bristol Bay and Far North fisheries

Our guide contains detailed information about every fishing region of the state, town and city profiles and thousands of job listings, contacts and companies that are now hiring. In addition, we have included contacts for every major cannery and processor in the state, government jobs, research, at sea jobs and thousands of current fishermen in every region of Alaska.

Alaska is an exciting place to explore, live, work and earn big money! This season, thousands of young people from all over the world will travel there to work on land and at sea; in canneries or on fishing boats. In some regions there is a labor shortage in Alaska, so get your job search started today!