Alaska Yukon River Fishwheel Catching Salmon - Stan Zuray
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2007
- This is a Fishwheel catching salmon during the height of a record 2005 fall chum salmon run on the Yukon River. As with many runs of fish everywhere, long periods of time (days and weeks) can pass without a single one caught. On this day that was not the case as you can see. Some historic papers going way back counted 393 Yukon River fishwheels from Canada to the river mouth (almost 1000 miles of river). Today there are a tiny tiny fraction of that amount of wheels on the Yukon (ADF&G counted 69 in 2015) and the chum runs remained healthy then and now. Estimated salmon passage past this wheel on the day of the video was 100,000 fall chum salmon. The wheel that day took about 30.
6/10/13 note: A long time ago I said I'd not be commenting anymore on the video due to negative comments but would not delete them either. Lately the video has gained quite a bit of views and with that some pretty vicious and ridiculous comments from people who get a kick out of being negative about things they have no clue about. This fishery supports native and rural fishermen living up and down the Yukon River. The fall chum salmon shown here numbered about 1 million into the river last year and is considered by the State of Alaska Department of Fish and Game to be underutilized on many years and in particular this year 2005 in the video. Nobody is killing any run off here with this traditional fishing. I will be deleting all negative comments I feel are not sincere at my leisure and discretion from now on. The Management
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I only just discovered this. As a hook and line fisho I find this machine absolutely remarkable. I could watch it all day. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Love it - thank you, Stan, for sharing this. Your videos, dialogue and the show have taught us a lot about life in your area of the world. 👍👍👍👍👍
This shows what smart thinking, hard work and perseverance can achieve. Great to see that the older designs still deliver the goods. Thanks so much for sharing.
I could watch this on a live stream all day long. These fishwheel videos are never long enough.
Great video Stan! I come from a family of fishers, & am a big fanatic of fishing myself. This reminded me of why I rather live in country side where I can harvest and catch my own food. Anyways, thank you for the awesome video and stay positive :)
Living In Great Lakes region nothing tastes better to me then a gift of freshly caught salmon smoked right by where caught .. no middle man processing . Best salmon I ever tasted . Family friends gifted this to my parents when I was child so delicious .
I knew what a fish wheel was, but never really seen one (not in action for sure) Amazing, Entertaining and captivating and after seeing it, makes ya realize just how genius an idea this was and the ones who dreamt it up. Just awesome! Thanks so much for the share!
Love the basket windmill idea! Stunning craftsmanship!
What an amazing piece of machinery! Thank you for the in-depth and informative description
Thank You!!!!!!! Stan you are a man amongst men. How you tolerate that son of yours is a testament to a fathers love for his child. He knows you love him, and one day it is going to hit him like a ton of bricks when it dawns on him how much. I discovered, (pun intended) you on Yukon Men. Keep up the good work.
Stan & Family....Thank You for keeping the sustenance lifestyle alive and well. Feeding friends, family and sled-dogs is no easy task. I truely appreciate the work you put into your "wheel". It reflects the respect you have for native ingenuity and designs. You are the last of a great lifestyle, in world that has lost imagination, flexibility, adventure and compassion for mother nature. Please....Ignore those who are ignorant (they are obvious) and recall only what they have done to this world. KUDDOS To YOU!!
All that's needed is context really. This right here is a modest harvest that feeds a village and still allows for the fish population to continue growing. A lot of people are used to the devastating deep water fishing which literally scrapes the oceans clean, but they haven't thought it through properly to stop and realise that this is not the same thing. Thanks for the video!
Thanks so much. Excellent!! I'd love to see them in operation again. Saw one over near Ugashik years ago.
Some historic papers going way back counted 150 Yukon River fishwheels from Fairbanks to the river mouth (almost 1000 miles of river). Another 150 at least would have been on the upper Yukon from Tanana to into Canada. Today there are a tiny tiny fraction of that amount of wheels on the Yukon and the chum runs remained healthy then and now. Estimated salmon passage past this wheel on the day of the video was 100,000 fall chum salmon. The wheel that day took about 30. Aggressive - yes/no.
That's pretty awesome to have an abundant renewable resource.
I'm absolutely green with envy of your life!! Thank you for sharing it with us.
Mesmerizing! I could watch all day! That represents a continual ton of work to process and preserve all those fish for winter. This is self-reliance at its best and further represents one of the ONLY truly conservative and renewable forms of large-scale fishing. When you have enough, one simply stops the wheel. So unlike commercial fishing that takes and takes until fisheries are depleted and ecosystems ruined.
Thank you.
Hello Stan from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪. Great to hear from you again. I’ve had to open a new account as RUclips didn’t like some of my comments on Irish people fighting back against the British 90 years ago. But never mind I’m back bigger and better
Guessing this video started the last good-stuff-on-TV era. TV after 2016 has just been a bunch of bs. So cool you posted this when yt still was fresh
Loved seeing these operate on the Tanana. There was a stern wheeler tour in the 70s that started on the Chena and went up the Tanana a ways. Though we lived on Badger road, this was the only time I got to see a fish wheel. It was fun to see the sled dogs standing on top of their houses barking and howling. We also got to see the dogs pulling a three-wheeler for exercise. Good memories.
Thank you for posting this video. I had never heard of a fish wheel and never knew what one was until I was doing Boldt Decision research (1974 fishing rights decision). Devices like these "were licensed on many rivers in WA state as early as the 1880's - 1890's." Source, Alvin Ziontz.
What a marvelous contraption, I could watch it all day!
its soothing and relaxing looking at the net moving up and down while the fish are jumping. Innovative and smart.
Alaska the beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Very clever. Thanks for sharing!
Love it Stan! I'm use to hoop nets and some memorable hauls when the catfish are running in the spring!
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Even if it was 10 years ago. I just subbed to your channel. I used to faithfully watch the TV show until I stopped cable due to the high cost and millions of commercials.
I also follow you on facebook.
You're a lucky man Stan! Tough life, but good and honest and rewarding
Well that is awesome ..WoW I like it ..that whole idea is grate to copy on a small scale.
I enjoy such a talented findings..big plus for you man ..Good luck.
Awesome video. Came across this contraption while reading about the Copper River after researching the Klawasi Group Mud Volcanoes, and was hoping someone had a great video of one in action.
My best friend, Super! Looked, very interesting! I liked your work! I enjoyed watch your video. Thanks!!!
I had no idea that the fish could be caught so quickly! Thanks for posting -
Thanks Again Stan For Sharing Your Knowledge Here On RUclips.
You are quite an amazing guy Mr Stan Zuray i know you think your not, But just a normal guy But i have the most upmost respect for you and you fellow towns people living off the land.
he's been there a long time and is obviously highly respected. people need to keep their mouths shut and their ears open. I like his classy presentations.
I could watch this wheel all day !!
Hi from Israel STAN.
I've been watching your show for years.
I remember the day you repaired Joey's snowmobile.
:-)
So easy and clever !!! Nicely done !!!
Was watching Yukon Men right now, wondered how fish wheels worked. Found this video, just as the show showed you emptying your catch tank. Pretty good timing. Nice rig.
same lol
Thks for the info Stan on the dry & cold smoking tips - have a great / blessed day & be safe - Kirk out for now
Jim? Dammit Jim! lol
You rock Stan!!!!! Stan is the man!!!!! The man with a plan...Always
Aloha from Kailua, Hawai'i Stan, Looks like you had this RUclips channel before the TV show. I'm half Caucasian like your kids with my dad also being a New England Yankee like you also long and far removed. I still catch you accent though. You can take the boy out of Boston but you can't take the Boston out of the boy.
Amazing how productive that fish wheel can be. Growing up here in Hawai'i we had a stream behind our home and Dad taught us how to lay a gillnet to catch mainly 'Awa aka Milkfish which we would butterfly cut, salt down then dry in a screened box on top of our roof. A couple days of gillnetting while the 'Awa ran upstream got us enough fish to feed us for months. This was over 30 years ago. Now all gillnetting is banned in my part of the island because a small minority abused the use of gillnets resulting in the drowning of protected sea turtles. Also the sleepy little town of Kailua I grew up in has become so popular with mainlanders that housing prices have skyrocketed so that older local blue collar families have had to move away not being able to afford the skyrocketing land tax on properties they already owned for a few generations. Many Hawaiians wind up retiring to the mainland US where cost of living much lower. I hope the new road into Tanana does not have a negative impact with newcomers arriving and cramming their values and "culture" onto the town like it did to mine.
Looking forward to another season of the show, keep up the great work, keep it real.
Such an effortless fishing. I am thrilled watching this 😁
Effortless? Try building, hauling to the water, and launching one.
I like your video very much. Thanks for showing it, it gives an arizona woman a little insight about a state I would like to see for myself.
Hard to believe back in the day that they figured to make this they really do work good
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Very cool Stan, thanks for posting. Must have been a lot of dogs in the river on that run! Do you guys eat the chums as table fare or simply for the dogs? I've never kept one and tried eating it myself, I'm told they are even too dry to be good smoked but some guys I know smoke & eat 'em.
Hey dumb question for ya, in the last episode of S2 last week, you pulled the wheel since it hadnt gotten anything. I was curious how long you had it in, show made it look like overnight or something? And secondly, I was curious why you didnt just leave it in even though it wasnt catching fish? Just let it run and maybe get something? It sounded like you guys said it was a lot of work to leave it, but other than setting it up & taking it out and checking it every so often, what it the toughest part of working it while its in and why not just leave it?
Hoping for season 3 and beyond, love watching the show and you & Joey are good people. Very impressed and in awe of the lifestyle you live, I couldnt do it. Looks like you raised a fine young man in Joey too! He appears to be very responsible and respectful.
Stan, great video. People have no clue about living up there, they have no clue about the eco system, they have no clue about living. They are used to someone doing everything for them, someone to catch and process fish for them, to raise and process meat for them, to plant and harvest potatoes for them. They have no clue what it is like to do things for themselves. I envy your living up there. I wish I was born a 100 years ago. Wouldn't have preservatives in my food, all natural. I still hunt, would rather eat an elk stake any day over eating a processed cow..
In 1915 in the Yukon, a white person with average education, had a life expectancy of 45 years. Go for it.
Look around you have a lot of things that those clueless people have made for you.
But u can't spell steak need a dictionary spelling the words for u hahaha
Elkbow, you should Edit this to say "Some" people as you are including way to many. I understand completely. Must respect Stan. God bless and I hope you harvest plenty to get through the Winter as well as get you a Moose and Come Caribou too!
I like this system very much. Thanks for sharing. Quick question: Seeing all this fish captured in just seconds makes you thinks maybe it is very aggressive with the river fauna. ¿Is this sustainable in the long term?
I’m Montagnards I have never seen like this before it’s amazing.
excellent video, thanks for posting this!
This always amazes me.
I would love to see one in person.
They re very efficient and interesting to watch
He is doing what he can as good as he can and the best part is he is getting good results good luck to you Stan and joe !!!
Pretty amazing how ingenious humans can be when it comes to making sure the family is fed.
Love you brother, nice work!
Love your videos 👍👍
Spectacular video, Stan. The construction of the fishwheel is so efficient. How many fish does the holding tank hold? does the holding tank have holes that would allow undersized fish to get back into the water?
+Maggi Lunde Can hold hundreds of fish and some of the smaller whitefish do get out the holes in the livebox. Stan
Wow! Great way of-- catching fishes!👍👍
There are some unique fishing methods in Alaska from fish wheels, to snag fishing(combat fishing), and dip netting.
Ingenious eco friendly device. Great TV as well Stan
saw the fishweel first time in a tv report about yukon. Really good idea!
hahahahahhahahahahaha i love it, that fishing wheel is awsome. I fish as much as i can when i can but this thing would drive me crazy seeing all those fish adding up like that. great video man thanks for posting it.
Hey Stan! Love the show, actually, I'm looking to take an Alaskan vacation by road, from Pennsylvania. Any tips for the long trip?
Drive 4000+ miles
If you are alone by the time you hit 1000miles I think you may be questioning your choice. Sooner if anyone is with you.
don't eat yellow snow!
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I made that trip in 1965 from Columbus Ga. to Fairbanks with the wife and a 6 month old son in July . The Alcan hy. was gravel then . No ac in my 62 chev. A very hot dusty long trip . Loved every minute of it .
Take gallons of bug repellent. I hear the mosquitos are big as hummingbirds.
Fantastic machine. Soooo cool. Us city dwellers in the lower 48 never knew. We'd probably perish if we came to Alaska to live and there were no stores or fish and meat markets.
Stan Zuray was one of the biggest stars on Yukon Men,.
I could watch that all day!
And that's how it's done!...thanks for the clip Stan.
I'm pretty damn sure jealous. Awesome tradition!
the beauty of tradition.. awesome
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@Jerry Dalrymple
You can not catch them with poles.
You don't know what you are talking about!
Amazing smart job, brother. I'd like to live near by the river.
Now that's a clever and easy way of catching fish👍👍👍
awesome Stan!..what a good catch you must have had that year.. by the way we love Yukon Men... cheers from Australia..all the best!
Привет из Беларуссии, обожаю фильмы с вашим образом жизни, смотрела по несколько раз и сейчас ищу где только можно...
Замечательный Стэн и его сын...
Do you have to clear the rocks out under the wheel before you start it or do you look for a that is pretty cleared out from rocks already or put the wheel in the same spot every year?
Awesome video!
Sweet. Thanks for sharing.
I think Stan is a great outdoorsman!
Very clever. I saw some video of an Eskimo or whatever the natives called up there doing the same, and processing the fish in their own natural smokehouse
every time it slows down i want to reach out and push it, strangely satisfying
Awesome video👍🏼
Bro this is awesome
We only ran ours for short periods on the Copper River. It was my grandfather's wheel, and I am not sure how many others used it, but my family only took enough for the winter. I think only natives can do this commercially.
Seems very efficient!👍🏻👍🏻
Great Video Stan. If you ever want to hunt Big Whitetail or Eastern Wild Turkey in Kentucky. Get with me Brother 👍
Wow i have never seen or heard about something like this before. Its so effective. Is the river really that productive all year long or is it a short time with so many fish?
As mentioned in the video description this was the biggest day of the record 2005 fall chum run. That was why I filmed it. No one was fishing except this one friend that needed 25 fish for his dog pot. He turned the wheel on and turned it right off. Some days you can fish all day and not catch one. People sometimes get upset seeing it for all the wrong reasons.
Stan Zuray well not me. I enjoy nature and clever fishing. Ppl should learn to be more respectful, but some think they can say what they want when they're sitting behind a screen.
Man..this is a fantastic ideas..catch fish..every single days..never go hungry..👍
Its really a good ingearing
Stan ...friend always i see your life in alaska
mis saludos desde Argentina master
Absolutely amazing to watch,
What a brilliant contraption! Here in NY we don't have anything like it.
A bad day fishing is still better than a good day at the office.
Demasiada Buena! Excelente Stan!!!
Stan great video!! dogs were happy
Wow! This is ingenious! And, it can be dually used to produce energy!
hahaha
Brother, this is awesome! I am kind of wondering how this idea on a much smaller scale would fair in our mountain streams here during trout season. I would not be able to keep the fish due to regulations here but it would be interesting to do the work and see if it would produce in the event it was needed. I only hunt and fish for subsistence here and not sport.
+Foothills Readiness Work best in cloudy water and when fish are migrating upriver. Fish need to be moving in numbers to catch a lot it seems. They miss most of what swims by it. Kind of like taking a swipe at a mosquito with your hand - win some lose a lot.
Thats amazing! Were there a few Kings in there?
Stan is a very hard worker.If you neg people watch Yukon Men use will see how much of a gentle man and a god dam fab father. Stan has a wonderful family and all look out for each other. Just look at Joey he is a very strong minded well mannered young man, Joey learned from his dad and look at Stan"s daughter Kate works very hard as well. Kate is a wonderful young lady. Stan Has all He need and more xx Hater why watch Yukon Men if you only have negative thoughts...
I've never seen a wheel like that on any river over here in NZ.
Is there not a daily bag limit per person per day or does it work on weight over there?
At the rate that thing catches fish alongside other fish wheels it's a wonder there is any fish left in the rivers to breed at all.
I wrote a long video description to the video. It's hard for anyone to make an informed comment by just watching the wheel catch fish on a record run of salmon day otherwise.
More info:
www.rapidsresearch.com/The_Fall_of_the_Yukon_King.pdf
awesome video!
Really miss Yukon Men! Stan was our favorite Yukon Man! Stan the Man🤣😂🤣
Thank you Rast 07, You are right. In order to provide a better experience for those who want to see it I'm just deleting the negative from now on with one swift click. Stan.
Hey Stan I use to watch you on TV buddy good seeing you on youtube 👍
One other thing the nay sayers don't think about is that salmon die when the spawn is done. If they are not caught and eaten they are all going to die soon anyway. Sure would be nice if their schooling included where food comes from (not the store).
Good to see simple, designs working, only worry I have is over fishing the river.
That is always an issue of concern but usually declines are not caused by local subsistence fishing. Commercial not managed properly is almost always the cause of stock declines even in Alaska.