Petersburg voices join this year's FisherPoet Gathering in Astoria

Over the final weekend in February, Petersburg artists Sunny Rice, and Alec and Nicole McMurren traveled to Astoria, Oregon for the 28th annual FisherPoet Gathering. They were among the more than one hundred people who have worked in the commercial fishing industry and took the opportunity to share the ways commercial fishing inspires their creativity.

Since its inception in 1998, the FisherPoet Gathering has celebrated commercial fishing and the people who make it happen through poetry, song, storytelling and visual arts.

Attendees buy a twenty-dollar pin which allows them to enter the many g...