Alaska fishermen earn about 50 million yen in one hour

There are many jobs that can earn a lot of money in a few minutes, but especially in Alaska herring fishing is famous, it seems that you earn as much as $ 500,000 (about 50 million yen) in one hour.

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Today, herring is harvesting 5,550 dollars per ton (about 55,000 yen), and in the case of herring fishery on the 1st day, we have harvested 10 4723 tons, which is nearly 5.5 million dollars in almost one day It is said that there is. These herrings are sent to Canada for processing or they are shipping to Japan.

In addition, it is not cheap investment to participate in this herring fishery, it is 283,000 dollars (about 28.3 million yen) to get commercial permission of herring fishery, 50,000 dollars (about 5 million yen) to the mesh catching network, It is necessary. Besides this, considering the labor costs of fishing boats and seafarers, although sales are high, it seems that it is not actually rich so far.