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Catching a Deckload of Dreams
Oct 25, 2022
Trident and Chuck Bundrant
When we moved from Alaska in 1977, our next door neighbors were none other than the Bundrant family.
Hard working, ethical, morally swung compass kind of family.
And coincidentally my family company chief competitors at the time. Maybe more like pesky little brother or tag along at school. But that's the beauty of this seafood industry. My old man was the same pesky wildcat to the Brindles and the major Japanese competitors at the time. Raising prices to the fishermen? Even having to deal with them post 1958 must have been quite a change from the business they'd been having since 1878.
Competition is the American way.
Way to go Bundrants.
We work(fish) for the Bundrants now. Along with some other great Alaskan companies.
Gratefully. Happily. Joyfully.
If you feel any less than this going into this great read, then you may be disappointed.
The shame the fishermen should have felt for taking years off the lives of great men like Alec and Harold Brindle along with Mr. Bundrant. The 2003 sham of a lawsuit, following upon the decades of unjust punishment to the Brindle family from the fake discrimination suit.
This was indeed a great man. Who built a greater family.
And not too shabby a company either.
Cheers to a great read. Need to get the prices down tho.
Robert Magnus Thorstenson Jr.
Feb 17, 2023
A good fish story
Personal as this may be as I am Robert Magnus Thorstenson, Jr., this is an amazing look at the company and the Alaskans who experimented with the first true large scale corporate semi-cooperative in which fishermen and employees owned 82% of Icicle when it finally sold in 2007.
Some of the rougher and tougher issues don't surface here as they may in the Bundrant book. But then again, most of dad's channels were well worn markets and he never had to carry alot of cash out of state. And he wasn't a fisherman, post 1957, when he fished with Spud Johnson and spud got wrapped up in the winch so Dick Johnson took over the Patti J.
Which is why dad got a job with PAF. Had he hit the home run of Spuds 56 season crewshare of $10k, he'd have not been looking for a assistant sup at King Cove making less than a quarter of that in 1958,
In 1959, he was assistant sup at Petersburg, going on to become VP of AK operations of PAF in by 1963, when I was born in Bellingham, and dad worked at the main plant in the winter.
In the winter of 64-65 he put together a group of partners and fishermen and bought the Petersburg plant of PAF.
The amazing Petersburg and some not Petersburg, people here are an amazing part of history and some live on with the new OBI
Cheers to the next generation of fishermen and processors
Robert Magnus Thorstenson Jr.
Jun 18, 2023
Important historical review of Alaska's wildlife management scene from WWII to the 1980s
The first and only Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commisioner to write his autobiography
This is the real Into the Wild story.
Lived true by a man from Michigan who became a true Alaskan.
Brooksie
Excellent and a must read if you are an Alaskan hunter, fisherman or lover of wildlife and the land.
Cheers
Robert Magnus Thorstenson Jr.
Juneau