Commercial Fishing Books

Captain of Her Crew: The Commercial Fishing Mom’s Guide to Navigating Life at Home by Jen Karuza Schile
Working on the Edge: Surviving In the World’s Most Dangerous Profession—King Crabbing on the High Seas by Spike Walker
On The Edge of Survival: A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend by Spike Walker
Nights of Ice: True Stories of Disaster and Survival on Alaska’s High Seas by Spike Walker
Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska’s High Seas by Spike Walker
North By Northwestern: A Seafaring Family on Deadly Alaskan Waters by Sig Hansen and Mark Sundeen
Time Bandit: Two Brothers, The Bering Sea, and One of the World’s Deadliest Jobs by Andy Hillstrand, Johnathan Hillstrand, and Malcolm MacPherson
Burning the Iceburg: The Alaskan Fisherman’s Novel by Whit Deschner
Dealiest Catch: Desperate Hours by Larry Erickson
Alaska: Tales of Adventure from the Last Frontier (St. Martin’s Griffin)
Highliners: The Classic Novel About the Commercial Fishermen of Alaska by William McCloskey
Fishing Up North: Stories of Luck and Loss in Alaskan Waters by Bradford Matsen
The Entangling Net: Alaska’s Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives by Leslie Leyland Fields
Salt In Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman’s Wife by Michele Longo Eder
Steady As She Goes: Women’s Adventures at Sea (Seal Press)
The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America’s Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town by Mark Kurlansky
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Pink Harvest: Tales of Happenstance by Toni Mirosevich
Lost At Sea by Patrick Dillon
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger
The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey by Linda Greenlaw
Alaska Blues: A Story of Freedom, Risk, and Living Your Dream by Joe Upton
Bering Sea Blues: A Crabber’s Tale of Fear in the Icy North by Joe Upton
Along the Corkline by Gary Keister