In 1965 Joe Upton was one of those teenagers walking up and down the docks of Seattle's Fishermen's Terminal, eager to get on one of the Alaska bound fishing boats. In his first job, the 70 year old mate filled Upton up with tales of a life- time working on the coast, and set him on his career path: commercial fishermen, but story teller as well. After 20 years of working up and down the Alaska coast in all kinds of boats in all kinds of weather, Upton started a publishing company to share with Alaska visitors some of the drama he had seen and experienced as a commercial fisherman. Recently he began working with fisherman/filmmaker Dan Kowalski traveling around Southeast Alaska and making short story telling videos.
