{"id":1787,"date":"2014-12-10T09:42:58","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T17:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2014-12-10T09:42:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T17:42:58","slug":"meet-the-fisherman-captain-john-hall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/meet-the-fisherman-captain-john-hall-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Fisherman: Captain John Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Rebecca Gardon<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1782\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/fv-zephyr_John-Hall-5-e1418062898952.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1782\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1782\" src=\"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/fv-zephyr_John-Hall-5-e1418062898952-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"Zephyr skippers\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capt John Hall (R),\u00a0with his skipper, Capt Chris Garraty<\/p><\/div>\n<p>John Hall began fishing in 1948 at the tender age of four. His mother still has a photo of him with his first catch: a nine-pound white seabass. With that catch, he was hooked. However, it wasn&#8217;t until 1976 that he began fishing commercially.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to\u00a0hitting the high seas full time, Captain John earned two masters and a Ph.D. in marine biology, and dreamt of becoming a professor. His teaching dream came true; however, after a few years at UC San Diego, he learned that the politically-charged academic world wasn&#8217;t a fit for him.<\/p>\n<p>He left UCSD for work in Alaska, fitting satellite radio harnesses on marine mammals and helping his neighbor, a gill netter, fish for salmon. In the years to come he would consult on a myriad of other marine projects, serving as chief scientist for SeaWorld, a scientist for the Navy\u2019s war porpoise program, and a researcher for a study on underwater sound in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>His underwater sound research branched into additional assignments, which allowed him to acquire his first tuna boat in 1995. In 2000, he purchased the F\/V Zephyr. The days of salmon fishing behind him, today John&#8217;s boat long-lines and trolls for bigeye tuna, swordfish, wahoo, opah, mahi-mahi, pomfret and escolar in the pelagic waters offshore California and Baja.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1783\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/FV-Zephyr_John-Hall-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1783\" class=\"wp-image-1783 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/FV-Zephyr_John-Hall-3-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"The F\/V Zephyr\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The F\/V Zephyr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rebecca Gardon John Hall began fishing in 1948 at the tender age of four. His mother still has a photo of him with his first catch: a nine-pound white seabass. With that catch, he was hooked. However, it wasn&#8217;t until 1976 that he began fishing commercially. Prior to\u00a0hitting the high seas full time, Captain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15442,"featured_media":1782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dock-to-dish","category-meet-the-fisherman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catalinaop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}