Jim Kyle

Appointed - Executive Committee
Maritime At-Large

Jim Kyle is founder and past-president of the Working

Waterfront Coalition. His work history includes teaching,

operating a wilderness charter company, long-lining, and

decades of purse seining for salmon in Puget Sound and

Alaska. He has also served as Director for several fishing

industry organizations.



Jim always preferred fishing over real work, and he treasures

memories of all those seasons spent with many crew

members, including 50 yr. wife-partner Kathy, and all four

children. After turning the family seiner “Home Shore” over to

son Ben in 2013, considering the value of our local maritime

heritage, he decided to work to preserve it.