Yikes. It's not safe to join an Alaskan fishing company as a processor aboard one of these boats even though they advertise hiring Americans as American owned companies. You don't have the legal and labor rights nor personal safeties in the international waters of the sea and the high seas are just as lawless today, if not more so, as was during the 1600's.  When you sea the boats in harbor, it makes you wonder with intrigue how many secrets and unsolved murder mysteries lay inside the private hulls. The boats are dangerous if you aren't providing your own security or paying your pay like on cruises and tours where security is behind the scenes protecting you. A seasonal job offers no security and is inadvisable despite how you can clock 90 hours a week at $8 hour making $3000 or more a mont. Besides the fishing companies are well known for being notoriously corrupted in their hours reporting and pay with Alaska labor law not offering any protections outside the domestic maritime zone.