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Article: FLAT OUT ON THE COPPER RIVER.(Pip Fillingham, fisherman)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- September 1, 2000
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Pip Fillingham will use almost anything -- including chartered aircraft -- to get the first king salmon of the year to market in Seattle.
By the time Pip Fillingham eases his 32-foot gillnetter, the Whatever, out of its slip in the small boat harbor at Cordova, Alaska, he's already red-eyed after a long day's work.
Fillingham, along with a handful of partners, most of them fishermen, owns a packing house along the town's weathered cannery row. For weeks he's tended to a thousand details at Copper River Seafoods. And in his spare time, he's managed to get the Whatever ready to chase what has become a very hot commodity -- Copper River king and red ...