Jobs in Alaska?
Finding a fishing job in Alaska isn’t that easy these days, especially on a crab boat. And it’s hard to imagine any skipper hiring someone who simply leaves a name, phone number, or email address. If you’ve got ‘Deadliest Catch’ fever and are serious about pursuing work in Alaska, you’ll most likely have to do the research on your own, and go after the job yourself. Deadliest Reports absolutely has no connection to getting any such work for anyone, but feel free to check out the links below…
State of Alaska Job Links
Alaska Dept. of Labor & Workforce Development
Alaska Job Center Network
Alaska Office of Economic Development (map of all Alaska shore based processors. Click on any location for individual Processor information)
Division of Employment Security
Processors
One of the few ways to get to Alaska with work lined up, is to get hired on a seafood processor. Several of the ‘Deadliest Catch’ boat websites such as the Northwestern and the Cornelia Marie also state that starting out with a processor job may be the way to go. If you’re interested, you may want to check out and research the links below.
Trident Seafoods
Peter Pan Seafoods
Icicle Seafoods
Ocean Beauty
American Seafoods
Unisea
Harbor Crown Seafood
Alaska General Seafoods
Copper River Seafoods
Pacific Seafood Group
U.S. Seafoods
Westward Seafood
Alaska Gold Seafood Producers Coop
Deep Sea Fisheries, Inc
Alaskan Leader Fisheries
James Duckett said
looking for a job! I’m a fast learner and need a job working for good money
Darin McCauley said
Im a hard worker looking for a little action in a job ! Im a licensed asbestos remover so I figure my job couldn’t get much more dangerous.
kenneth russell said
currently i was working with the fishing company of alaska as a prossesor and they are blowing me off, i learn pretty quick and a strong worker i’m looking for a new job on a vessel i have about 3 months experience as a fish prossesor i was hoping to get a chance to work on a crabbing boat and have a new crazy painful experience with that.
norman price said
looking for a job
Devyn Haas said
I will always give it my all at everything I do.
Joshua Sparks said
I am an underground field Pipeline layer and pipefitter. I work long hours in all kinds of weather. I enjoy working with others. I would like to be a Crab Fishermen because I enjoy the weather and the hard work is a challenge. Please consider me for a position.
Gerald Gayleard (Jay) said
Hello,
My name is Jay and I’m trying to get a deckhand job on a king crab f/v.I’m in great shape and can work my ass off.I have nothing at home or anything going on in my life but time to fish.I’m a great person to be around and can get along with anyone.Trust me,I would not let my crew down no matter what!As a little boy its all I ever wanted to do.Been on the water my whole life and ready to step my game up.By the way,I’m told all the time.That I’m the world luckyest guy alive and that could be good out at sea.Thank you and the worlds greatest greenhorn is ready at a moments notice.I hope to hear from someone real soon.Thank you again.
brian martin said
looking for work,have been working in canneries for several seasons,also worked a season on a longliner fishing for halibut.i understand that crab fishing is hell.and i would probally with i never stepped on the boat,but i have that extra grit to hang in,when your body does not want to go on.take a chance on me and i will give it my all. thanks
Chad Forbes aka: "The Cleaner!" said
Anyone wanting a job on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska?? Do what I did! fly to Alaska, Go to a port town and walk the docks! The only way to get a job is to get here and earn your stripes, GREENHORN! I actually first went to work for a cannery. Did that for one week and started walking the docks. I started in Bristol Bay and then brought the boat to Kodiak, and started walking the docks again.
I have had the experience of a lifetime! I will be working on the F/V Incentive, featured in season 5, this summer in SouthEast Alaska, Tendering, to the Herring Fisheries, and Salmon Fisheries. Hopefully this will help me earn a spot Crabbing. You have to start at the bottom and typically you need to put in 2 years of greenhorn status.
I have fished Pots, Seiner, Longline, Jig, and Gillnet. This is no joke work! I have almost been killed 2 twice, and escaped serious injury many times, tore ligaments in a knee, had surgery all in a year. You need to be aware of everything out here! I love this stuff! Like Phil said in the show “Ya gotta be kinda twisted, to do this job.”
Jose said
also, I was working for a time in Chicago in the middle for the snow storms… Id like to get this job!!!
Dennis said
Hey guys! If you guys ever need a GREENHORN after you read this email me. im the one that your looking for. im 20 years old from sweden.
im not the guy that start whine, ill rather shutup and keep doing my job. im used to work under stress. if u wanna know anything more just ask.
i can leave evrything behind back here for some years just to fish whit you guys.
RED GOLD BABY!
Stephanie Bailey said
i’d love to work just about anywhere in alaska dont care if it is a prossesor job
sounds like it could be one heck of a experience! 
peter macdougall said
hi my name is peter macdougall and im looking for a job at the king crab ive already spent alot of time on the sea and would love to try it. Im a hard worker been working since i was 15 when i left school and want to try that job before im to old with a family. Ive did alot of jobs people ask me what i want to do i say fishing king crab
lifelongalaskan said
Crewman jumps into sea, refuses rescue
VICTIM: 40-year-old likely committed suicide in cold water, investigator says.
By WESLEY LOY
wloy@adn.com
Published: January 31st, 2009 12:26 AM
Last Modified: January 31st, 2009 12:27 AM
A crewman on a Bering Sea commercial fishing boat leapt into the deadly cold water and fought rescue efforts before vanishing, authorities said Friday.
“At this point it looks like a suicide,” said Thomas Lowy, a state trooper at Dutch Harbor.
The victim was identified as 40-year-old Michael Leo Beaulieu. His commercial fishing license lists his home as Frisco, Colo., but he might have been somewhat transient, Lowy said.
Crewmen aboard the fishing vessel Arctic Fox reported Beaulieu jumped overboard shortly after 11 a.m. Thursday.
The boat, which had been fishing for cod using traps known as pots, was heading to Dutch Harbor and was about 11 miles to the northeast when the man jumped, the U.S. Coast Guard reported.
Beaulieu, who wasn’t wearing a survival suit, “refused to swim toward a life ring thrown to him and swam away from a fellow crewman who donned a survival suit and went in to rescue him,” a Coast Guard news release said. “The man then reportedly dove and was not seen again.”
A Coast Guard helicopter stationed in Cold Bay searched 16 square miles in blowing snow and fog but the crewman wasn’t found and the search was suspended at 4:25 p.m. Thursday.
Seas were running at 6 feet and the water was 37 degrees, cold enough to cause hypothermia and death in a matter of minutes.
No foul play is suspected based on interviews with the boat’s five other crewmen, who were pretty shaken up, Lowy said.
“They took it pretty hard,” he said.
State records list the owner of the 58-foot Arctic Fox as Wahl Fisheries of Reedsport, Ore. The vessel was built in 2006.
Beaulieu didn’t leave a suicide note, but he made “some odd comments” to his fellow crewmen that, in retrospect, seem to be signs he was troubled, Lowy said.
michael snow said
looking for a job on a crab vessel,i grew up in newfoundland and fished for crab and cod on the atlantic/i live in ontairo now working as a ironworker.just looking for a oppertunnity to fulfill my dream,of working on a crabboat someday,im a single man and work very hard at whatever im doing.thank you all for your time and i love the show,i own all the dvds.keep safe to all the guys that go out to the bering sea,thanks mike.
Daniel Russell said
I am 21 years old , 6′2 and 190 pounds.I am fast and i am strong. I have been fishing for the past four years on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland the climate and weather here is similar , i love fishing and i love hard work, i am a very eager and easy to get along with guy. I know i can handle the job on any crab boat . I just did a Bridgewatch course at marine institute and is very comfortable navigating a boat. I just want to work on a bigger boat and make bigger money! Bring on the rough weather! I know a lot fishing and i know almost every knot there is. I am seriously ready to haul some crab gear.
Jevgenij Pecenikin said
Hello, I looking for fishing job, becouse I have a lot of experence on crab boats and longliners, I work before in Ireland,Scotland,Faroes . I not afraid nonstop job, I do everething in the ship or in the factory… Now i be back couple months ago to lithuania from Scotland . I want to work in Alaska, I speak English, Russian,Lithuanian. You want a good worker contact me on E-mail pecenikin@inbox.ru or Tel: +37064561826 MR :Jevgenij Pecenikin
bryan said
i’m looking for a job, im a fast learner, finding work for money.
Westcoyne said
Hi Guys!
I see lots of you applying for a job on this site. Actually, it is a fan site- the boat skippers might not even be reading it. From what they have said on the show, the best way to get a job in Alaska is to go there and look. The Captains also warn that the competition for jobs is fierce. There are other sites that give info on jobs- such as on line newspapers classified ads. Good luck! Hope you each find the job you want on a good boat.
mac luciani said
ive been working on fishing boats in my hometown since i was fifteen. im now 20 and have wanted to go crabbing since i first found out about the dangers and intense-ness. i live for this stuff and will pretty much do anything. send me an email if anyone needs help on a f/v mac02066@yahoo.com
salo said
hello guys
i would like to be part of a boat crew.I am 23 years old from Chile, now here in Vancouver BC waiting for a chance to conquer new opportunities. am a hard construction worker with experience enough to face any task.
i hope to get a answer from you guys and good luck.
Sergey said
Want to work at sea. Hard worker and fast learner.
Jozie said
Hey Guys,
Good luck to those wanting to be fishermen! We were fortunate! My husband and son-in-law will be Greenhorns this season!! Gotta be at the right place at the right time!! God be with them!
Lonnie said
I was just laid off from working on tug boats in New York, would love a job aboard a crab, halibut or longliner. I have ten years of commercial lobstering experience, and hold a commerical license. Not sure what this might do, but I have been having a hard time finding another job that allows me to work on the water-couldn’t work in any other enviroment.
Dan Coelho said
Dan is the name and I can fish. I grew up sport fishing the pacific coast and spent last year gill netting sockeye in Bristol bay. Fishing is what I live for, rain or shine. Sea worthy and hard working. Hiring?
Josh Goolsby said
I am 6′1-185lbs. I have moved furniture for a living and am very strong and well conditioned. I definitely would be a Greenhorn but that means I know my role and will keep my mouth shut and do my job. 360-314-6909 Vancouver, WA
Donna O'Dell said
Does anyone need a gardener on a crab boat?????
Lea Davies said
I want to work on the North western, I’m a hard working, fast learning, ex military man who will take and follow orders to the best of my ability,
I will knuckle down and do my job.
I know this may get me no where but I will be stood at your docks when your taking on Greenhorns.
Badass Stellar Sea Pitcher said
I have been pitching all of your crab for long enough. 3 Opillio Seasons under the belt. Ive been on the Northwestern,Cornillia Marie, Katie K, Paragon, Bering Sea, Arctic Sea, Wizard, Lady Alusian, Alusian Lady, Mystery Bay, Pinnacle, Adventure, Kuskatan, Nuka Island, Gulf Winds, Silver Spray,Incentive,Time Bandit and many many more. I was the Irishmen(Black Heart on my hard hat) with a work ethic I got from my Father. If theres crab to be pitched……. im your man. If theres crab to be caught, thats your decision.
corrie wilson crab boy said
hello im from australia ive don longlining for sawdfish an tuna but for the last 3 years ive been doing deep sea crabin for 3 years… big white ones called snow crabs an i also heard them 2 b called crystle crabs. i love the ocean i love the rough weather an i love catchin an being away from land.. i get along with every1 im 28 fit an hard core. if your looking for a good an reliable decky well im your man.. no shit!!i will travel 2 u. im fit an realible smoke sometimes an am drug free.. hopefully here from u soon 0450442761. corrie
adam said
am from england i have dun trawlering for 5 years and i am 21 years old love fishing and wants ago at the king crab fishing i have got all my fishing gear gets along whid all willing 2 go hard core my number 07798631970 ..adam
Groovemaster said
Greetings.. fear not, I’m not going to give a job application here lol. I was just curious from anyone who had worked or works with one of the processors, which is one of the better ones to work for. Not naive enough to just jump on a boat, thinking about getting my feet wet and learning the environment more by starting at the bottom. Any information would be great.
jeff priapi said
hey keith colburn with the wizard my name is jeff and my # is 1-301-759-4062 looking for a crabing job or u can email jeff_priapi@yahoo.com
raymond said
I am from alaska and i am a big fan of king crabbing. Sometimes i dream of being one of those guys that are deadly after coming back from the deadlyest oceans of alaska. If ya need a hand i’m willing to work hard. yeah give me a call at (907)-757-6277 .
Carlos Morales said
I’m searching for a long term job. A new experience like Deadliest crab catch… I been watching it for a long time and feel this can be a great journey. I like a challenge, I have a great teamwork and want this opprotunity for a life change. I’m searching and open for a start. Please contact me at at anytime… Thanks’ in advance.
Jeremiah Johnson said
Hey looking for a job on a crab boat im a hard worker im 23 so im young and can keep up with the hours and the other guys i catch onto things fast and i have done the long hours and all types of shifts i currentley do construction and i am currently working 70-86 hours a week yeah i make great money but this is something i have always wanted to do so give me a chance and i will guarentee u wont be dissapointed i know the wizard is always hiring because most the guys i have seen on there can’t keep up so Keith give me a call and give me a shot
Darren Bowker said
I have worked in the wine industry for 10 years. I have worked long days (16-18 hrs, 7 days a week for 2 1/2 to 3 months in a row) Never as cold as you guys or nearly the danger involved. (or at least not the same dangers….CO2 environments and heavy equipment, compounded by delerium) I just have to say I would love the test of personal character, but I’m not that f’n crazy!!!! LOL Just wanted to let you guys know that I will NEVER complain about the price of Alaskan crab again. I have been on a NJ Lobster boat and quite frankly, Lobster is WAY overpriced and Alaskan Crab should be at least twice as much.
guy large said
i live in mississippi lookin for adventure and work have watched the show and i have alot of interest in crabbing since i have have first watch it just want to do something different and prove to people i can do this i am a hard quick learner and would love the opportunity to do this
bryan geronimo said
Ive been in the U.S for 10 years now and i have been working ever since and my job histories are, Im a maintenance at a hotel i fix everything and i was there for 2 years, at the same time i have a second job which a ASE certified auto mechanic i have been a mechanic for over 12 years now and i work 16-18 hours a day and i am only 25 years of age i started working young, i never complained because i do everything for my family. three weeks from now 08/17/09 im going to anchorage alaska and look for a job and if your interested hiring me please contact me at
1-(858) 231-2728 i wont let you down
jim young said
looking to get back out there,, 25 plus years fishing experience,, Longline all species in ak waters, salmon troll, seining,shrimping,gillnetting, all species of crab red blue and brown kings, tanners , opie’s , dungie’s, longline and single pot browns.
live in juneau ak, 44 yrs old,, love to pot fish!
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