Claire Neaton and Emma Teal Laukitis have been fishing for wild Alaskan salmon since before they were born. That’s thanks to their parents, who raised them on a remote homestead in the Aleutian Islands, where they also ran a small family fishing operation. The sisters, born 13 months apart, have never missed a salmon season, despite attending college on the East Coast, having children, and building their company, Salmon Sisters.
“Growing up the way we did, it’s impossible not to have a strong connection to the seasons,” Neaton says.
Now 33 and 32, respectively, Neaton and Laukitis have ordered their lives and their business around Alaska’s wild salmon harvest. They started Salmon Sisters when they were both in college in New England, first selling apparel for women in the fishing…
