F/T STARBOUND
Spent maybe four months working on this ship. Back in my drinking days probably around 1991-92....I was down below in processing area flipping fish....working for % of catch and that averaged out to about seven bucks an hour. Back in the nineties the seafood industry was going so strong that the seafood companies were hiring guys right out of the missions. Forget what I was doing when I signed aboard Starbound. Might have been working at car wash might have been on the mats...I forget...
Fishing Area was up inthe Bering Sea. We would fly up to Dutch Harbor, Alaska and hook up with the ship there.
Nonsensicle shifts when processing....six hours on , six hours off and just to break our balls they would throw in something they called a kick shift. About every third six hour off period would be interrupted with a two hour shift in processing area........that never made sense to me....in fact I checked the production figures with kickshift and without kickshift and there was no difference.
There was TV and VCR in the galley but there were only two movies...."Live and Let Die" and "A Fish Called Wanda".
Must have watched fish called wanda thirty times
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