Long Story Short (speculating these prices)
100,000 lbs of sockeye @ $.55 = $55,000
100,000 lbs of sockeye made into vacuum sealed fillets at 60% recovery is 60,000 lbs of fillets @ $4.00 a lb
= $240,000
100,000 lbs of sockeye made into vacuum sealed lox fillets at 50% recovery is 50,000 lbs of lox...@ $10 a lb = $500,000
100,000 lbs of sockeye and coho made into 1.5 lb lox filllets equates to 50,000 lbs of of
lox. If all was packaged in fancy wood boxes with native art and sold at $20. per lb, it would make $1,000,000.
Isn't a little extra work and some added risk worth the chance of making some real money?
If you've found this link, you probably already know who I am. If not, please click on the link to
the left titled About Us.
I'm looking for a Kodiak Captain .... preferably a non-smoking person with
a lot of experience seining salmon and holding a Kodiak salmon seine permit. As you've probable already discovered,
I'm building a freezer boat. After many hours of crunching numbers, I realized that as much as I would like to
be aboard my boat this summer, the reality is that my chances of earning more money increase, if I stay on the beach
and turn the catch into lox and concentrate on marketing. It might be that I stay aboard for the first 40,000 lbs
of fillets and then turn the boat over to another skipper. I would like that skipper aboard with me from the get go.
My plan is to rent space in Washington state and use it as a headquarters and smoking facility. In
the event that I do find a suitable skipper, it's likely that I would be traveling back and forth between Kodiak and Washington
throughout the summer to meet the boat when it arrives in town with a container load.
If you already own a salmon boat and feel that you can't afford to leave your boat idle, I suggest you consider
your options. You could lease your boat out to some fisherman lacking a market and seine my rig. I can freeze over 3000
lbs per day. (90 days at 2000 lbs of salmon a day would translate into about 90,000 lbs of lox....
@ just $10 per lb, the numbers are staggering!) Certainly those are probably unrealistic expectations but it is possible.
I'm open to making creative deals. I'm not looking for an investor ... just someone who wants to engage in
some risk in hopes of increasing his bottom line significantly. I will market the salmon or give you your
share of the salmon to market yourself.
I'm guessing that the average Kodiak seiner put in about 100,000 lbs of sockeye and between 15,000
and 20,000 lbs of cohos last season. You might think that your production will drop by having to freeze
fish aboard. I don't think so! I think it may actually increase. Here's why.... you'll
never have to go looking for a tender, You won't waste that 2 hours a night finding the tender, delivering and then
cleaning the fish hold. You'll be able to anchor right where you're fishing and that will enhance your chances
for the first set in the morning. During coho season you won't be running your fish to town every day or so. The
one draw back is that you'll probably have to run to town or Larsen Bay every 20 days for fuel and water.
The freezer is going to be incorporated into the hatch and will have 9 or 10 stacking baskets in four separate
hatches. I expect to be able to hold between 1500 lbs and 2000 lbs per cycle when all baskets are
full. The fish holds are heavily foamed and glassed. The 4 fish holds total nearly 2000 cubes
which translates into over 50,000 lbs of frozen product.
In my mind the risk of having to unload our salmon on the cheap is still far better than
any market with a Kodiak processor.
One last thing, if this plan is something that you find interesting and you want to earn even more money,
consider what you could make during cod and maybe crab with this vessel. Consider the advantage of staying on the cod
grounds until the boat is full of frozen cod. I'm seeking a full time skipper for the long run.
So if you're a strong grinder and you want to change your financial status, please give me a call. I'm
working long hours on the boat but can usually be reached late in the evening. Thanks for taking the time to read this
proposal and if it's not something that you're interested in, please tell a friend. If you want more details, I have
a preliminary proposal for percentages ready for you to consider. If you email me be sure to enter in
the subject line:
Kodiak sockeye so I don't discard it as junk mail. My email
address is:
harderpaul@hotmail.com
