The Togiak sac roe herring fishery used to draw hundreds of fishermen.
“It was like a gold rush,” said Frank Woods. Woods lives in Dillingham and started fishing for Togiak herring in the mid-1980s.
“The whole bay would fill up with industry,” he said. “It would be a buzz, everybody would gear up to go. And everybody had not only fun doing it but made money at it.”
Fast forward to 2018, and Woods was the only gillnetter in the fishery.
