Alaskan fishermen

Highliners are the elite of the fishing world, the skippers and crews who make the biggest catches-salmon, king crab, halibut, shrimp-and deliver them first to the bustling canneries of Kodiak and Dutch Harbor. For these men-and for their women-the safe eight-hour day does not exist. It never will. Some fishermen get rich, many die broke. But they find a special joy in their work that can never be matched by the easier world of the landsman. No matter...

Twenty years after his greenhorn days in William McCloskey's bestselling novel Highliners, Hank Crawford stands tall as a respected fishing captain in Kodiak, Alaska. Set amongst the tumult of the early 1980s, Raiders follows the struggles of the Alaskan fishermen as they regain control of their fishing grounds from the fleets of foreign companies, who have been plundering their bays. But such companies aren't deterred, and instead contract American...