{"id":2367,"date":"2018-09-24T15:42:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/?p=2367"},"modified":"2018-09-24T15:42:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:42:37","slug":"mark-coulthurst-goes-fishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lelandhale.com\/wordpress\/mark-coulthurst-goes-fishing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Investor’s First Season: Mark Coulthurst Goes Fishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Coulthurst’s story belongs to Blaine, WA., a small farming and fishing community between Bellingham and Vancouver, B.C.. It was there that the 1982 fishing season would begin. There that Mark and his crew pulled together their plans, and their gear, for a successful season.<\/p>\n

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\nBlaine Pier<\/strong>, Mt. Baker in background (circa 1940; Whatcom Museum)<\/p>\n

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Mark Coulthurst: Doing the Bellingham Scramble<\/strong> (excerpts), by Doug McNair.
\nPART VI<\/em><\/p>\n

The Investor<\/em>, one of the John Schubert-designed, Delta “combination” boats, was at the net loading dock, a salmon skiff tied alongside and a herring seine and skiff waiting to be loaded aboard. As crewman Dean Moon outlined the next few months’ itinerary, the Coulthurst style of operation emerged: something boiling on every burner.<\/p>\n

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\nDean Moon<\/strong> (Blaine High, 1980)<\/p>\n

With three gill-netters in tow, the Investor<\/em> was headed out for Petersburg and Prince William Sound where it would tender roe herring while Mark gillnetted. Coulthurst would then team up with Dave Harrison on the Rachel II<\/em> for the Togiak herring run, prior to taking the Investor<\/em> to Cordova for an interlude of Dungeness crab and\/or halibut, before the Southeastern Alaska seine season gets underway.<\/p>\n

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Somewhere in there, Mark would pop home for some time with his family and then, in July, bring up his wife, Irene, five-year-old Kimberly, and three-year-old John to spend the salmon season with him.<\/p>\n

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\nTogiak herring<\/strong> fishing<\/strong><\/p>\n

On this drizzly, blustery day in Blaine, the tents were going up for a six-month, non-stop, three-ring circus. The first real clue about the ring master was a voice, coming up from the engine room; a deliberate, matter-of-fact cadence, tolling out spare parts numbers to skiffman and engineer Roy Tussing. It didn\u2019t quite go with the face that followed: a face that just didn\u2019t go with a $750,000 seiner and the reputation Bevis had outlined.<\/p>\n

The shopping list of belts, filters,\u00a0and socket sets complete, Coulthurst\u00a0settled in at the galley table just as his wife Irene popped in. Irene was crew\u00a0before she was a wife and really missed\u00a0being onboard when Kim and John were younger. So the Investor<\/em> was planned as a family boat. This year, the Southeastern salmon season will\u00a0be not only the focal point of Mark\u2019s fishing but a time for the family to be together, a priority item in the Coulthursts\u2019 business plan.<\/p>\n

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\nBlaine Harbor map <\/strong>(courtesy Port of Bellingham)<\/p>\n

Copyright Leland E. Hale (2018). All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

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\"Craig\"<\/p>\n

Order “What Happened In Craig<\/strong>,” HERE<\/strong><\/a> and HERE<\/strong><\/a>, true crime from Epicenter Press about Alaska’s Worst Unsolved Mass Murder<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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