Don Giles, the former CEO of Icicle Seafoods, has published a memoir of his career in the fish business. "Fish Tales: My Unplanned Journey Through the Alaskan Seafood Industry" follows a Texas college kid who starts out unloading crab on a Seward dock and ends up running one of Alaska's great salmon processors. It's a remarkably candid insider account of the stressful life of a seafood executive, with the story extending through the bittersweet sale of Icicle in 2007. In telling his own story, Giles describes monumental changes in the industry such as the advent of individual fishing quotas for halibut and sablefish. Buy the book at Amazon.
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Just ordered this. Should be a good chronicle of salmon business over last forty or so years. I worked with Don Giles, Bob Blakey, Dave Bean, Kris Norosz and others when the American Fisheries Act excluded processing companies like Icicle, Snopac, and others from the pollock fishery. What a true gentleman he is. Pete Granger
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