Above: The author, right, with the Captain and Fishing Master, on the Ebisu Maru. Below: Quantifying fear.
In November of 1982, I was in the Bering Sea, working as a biologist/observer for the National Marine Fisheries Service and assigned to a Japanese Long Line vessel, The Ebisu Maru. The ship was 170-feet long with a crew of 20, fishing the Aleutian Islands for groundfish. One thing you learn when fishing in the North Pacific and…
