Ep. 596: An Alaska Native on Hunting Sea Otters and Honoring Her Culture

The MeatEater Podcast

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Sports, Wilderness

4.9 • 37.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Steven Rinella talks with Heather Douville and Seth Morris.

Topics discussed: How to pronounce Tlingit; setting halibut hooks in competitive pairs of two; drying fish over spruce sticks; putting good energy into what you’re doing; “do the best you can, your friend is coming to fight you”; salmon as a part of a way of life; only take what you need even if the law says you can take more; wearing seal; the sea otter fur trade; Heather’s small business, Coastal Fur and Leather; how sea otters eat 25% of their body weight in seafood a day; how there’s more hair on one square inch of a sea otter than there is on an entire German shepherd; soft gold; shooting off hand out of the boat; supporting the cause; restrictions under the Marine Mammal Protection Act; how kids are sacred; get Heather's handmade fur items here; and more.

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0:39.8	k joined today by hehoseville holy cow thanks for coming over thank you
0:43.4	flying over happy to be here
0:45.5	uh... you live in Craig Alaska
0:48.4	i do
0:49.8	born and raised and Craig
0:51.1	born and raising Craig on the outside outside, what we hear at the inside of the island called the
0:56.6	outside of the island. Wait, say it again? Like we call that the outside of the island.
1:01.3	Oh, okay, gotcha. Prince of Wales Island. Yeah, like the west side of the island. Oh, okay, got you.
1:02.7	Prince of Wales Island.
1:03.9	Yeah, like the west side of the island,
1:05.2	the outside of the island.
1:06.5	Yeah, okay.
1:07.7	And you were born raised there.
1:09.6	And I got a plug something, and then I going to ask you a bunch of questions.
1:14.5	Okay. But I'm going to plug it by asking your question.
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