Gas Prices Hit Fishermen Too

Pat Hammers isn’t going halibut fishing this summer.
“This is the first time since I moved to Alaska (in 1993) that I’m not going halibut fishing,” Hammers, a local magistrate, told me the other day.
While that might not necessarily mean much to some folks, it speaks volumes for Hammers, who ranks halibut fishing as one of his favorite things to do.
“I love halibut fishing,” he said. “I moved to Alaska to go halibut fishing.”
But when Hammers called the halibut charter company he usually books his trips with out of Homer a couple weeks ago, the price for a charter was $285, and that didn’t include a 7 percent sales tax in Homer, which puts the price at just more than $300.

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