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“Seven years ago, when it had become apparent that the Fraser River gillnet fishery was fast losing the ability to provide full-time work, Otto Strobel, 74, decided it was time to pack it in and pull in his nets for good.

His son, Shaun Strobel, had already quit fishing to become a teacher. The commercial fishery had been hammered over the years by limited openings or – in some years – no openings at all, while costs continued to increase. Even when there was an opening, the prices set by wholesalers didn’t cover the input.

“He was losing money,” Sonia Strobel said of her father-in-law. “He was going to give up fishing because of that. We felt that that was really a very sad reality – that an independent fisherman of his age who wanted to keep fishing couldn’t keep fishing.”

But Otto Strobel is still fishing, and his son is back on the water, too.”