Commercial Fishing: Gulf of Alaska It’s not an easy life, but it’s a good life!

Suppose you decide to take the summer off and sign on as a deck hand for a commercial fi shing boat in Alaska that specializes in deep-water fi shing for groundfi sh. What kind of fi sh can you expect to catch? One way to answer this question is to examine government reports on groundfi sh caught in the Gulf of Alaska. The following list indicates the types of fi sh caught annually in thousands of metric tons (Source: Report on the Status of U.S. Living Marine Resources, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration): fl atfi sh, 36.3; Pacifi c cod, 68.6; sablefi sh, 16.0; Walleye pollock, 71.2; rockfi sh, 18.9. Make a Pareto chart showing the annual harvest for commercial fi shing in the Gulf of Alaska.