BORN FOR IT A FAMILY-RUN AND HEAVILY FEMALE CHARTER COMPANY IS SHAPING THE HOMER FISHING INDUSTRY BY DAVID ZOBY
C Shannon Zanone is the captain of the Homer fleet charter boat Snow Goose II. She’s one of several prominent women in the community’s fishing industry and is happy to work for a family-owned company there. (DAVID ZOBY)
apt. Shannon Zanone steered the Snow Goose II in the light chop between Elizabeth and Perl Islands. We already had our halibut limit of two fish apiece, and now we wanted to round off the trip with limits of rockfish. Shannon scanned her electronics and checked the depth: 156 feet. Six of us, all men in our 50s and up, stood on the deck and waited for her to make the call. Deckhand Ciara Lambert – “C” as she is known in the fleet – had switched us over from heavy halibut gear to lighter jigging
aksportingjournal.com | AUGUST 2022
ALASKA SPORTING JOURNAL
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