Now 76, pictured aboard his boat, the MZ L, he’s the last skipper running a commercial fishing vessel from his home village of Ouzinkie, on an island just north of Kodiak. This story was ...

But today, that tradition is all but dead: Katelnikoff is the last skipper running a commercial fishing boat from Ouzinkie’s harbor. A similar story has played out in villages up and down the ...