Fishbytes- A Personal Rant On The Day Of My 40th Year Anniversary In Fishing By Francisco Blaha

Fishbytes- A Personal Rant On The Day Of My 40th Year Anniversary In Fishing By Francisco Blaha

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Today is 21 September 2023; back in 1983, it was my first trip on a commercial fishing boat. I had to be 18 years old to get my “2nd mate ticket”, and even if I had done the equivalence from my Navy one a couple of weeks before while still 17, the day after my b’day (16/9), I was at the Argentinean coastguard (Prefectura) with all the papers.

I had a job lined up as a deckhand in a small coastal trawler of Mar del Plata because while I knew how to take a boat and operate it from A to B, I didn’t know anything about fishing. Thankfully, a skipper (a good man named Braulio who lost his son in the war just the year before) took me under his wing and allowed me to learn from him and many others after him.

This article was published in: INFOFISH International 1/2024

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