The donation will help Metlakatla start a community fund for families who have lost a loved one at sea.
This year, the crew dedicated the memorial pot to Metlakatla. They were inspired by a recent documentary about Alaska’s only Native reserve.
“In that movie, there’s a couple of dive accidents where we lost some community members,” Metlakatla Mayor Albert Smith said. “And so our guests right here at the Bering Sea Crab Fisherman’s tour would grab those tags, put a donation in the box, and then we would zip-tie those tags to the top of our crab pot, which we turned into a memorial pot,” he explained.
“It kind of portrays the kids growing up, you know, having to go hunting in the morning, having to go to algebra at eight o’clock, having to go to school, maybe they may have to go fishing with somebody in the afternoon,” Lethin said. “It was the lifestyle. And on top of that, they had some accidents in their fisheries, where some of the family members did not come home.”
“They do have a fisherman’s memorial. It’s up on the point there, right in town right on the edge of the point overlooking the water –and he shared that, you know, ‘When we have accidents here, some of the families don’t even have enough money to buy the plaque to put on the memorial for their loved ones that were left behind,’” Lethin said.“And many times their fishermen are in the waters, the gillnetters, the seiners, which we get to see them right up close next to us,” he recalled.
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