Scott Fosmark, Fosmark Fisheries LL

Fisherman

Scott Fosmark is a fifth-generation commercial fisherman from Monterey. He came of age learning how to wrestle salmon, albacore tuna, and even swordfish onto the deck and into the hold. He spent so much time at sea that his childhood bathtub was the sink on his dad’s boat. One of his most memorable experiences was on a foggy day, out on the water with his mother and father, and they caught 857 albacore. 

“We pulled wide open for five hours,” he says.

Now Fosmark is bringing groundfish trawling back to the Monterey Bay, with the arrival of his boat, F/V Queen Corinne, to Moss Landing in late 2020. His crew is now harvesting a variety of abundant species, including Pacific Dover sole. His other vessel, the F/V Yaznak, is based in Brookings, Oregon, where it fishes for pink shrimp and Dungeness crab.

Fosmark graduated from the California Polytechnic State University and went on to work in financial services. But the sea lured him back, and he started Fosmark Fisheries LLC. In 2012, he bought the Yaznak, and in 2015 he purchased Queen Corinne in Louisiana before it made its way to the West Coast via the Panama Canal. 

He credits success in the fishing industry to the people he has built his company around. He does what he does because of good people, he says. When he is not busy balancing the financial world with his own fishing company, Scott can be found talking to his mother, the fishing industry veteran Kathy Fosmark, or running around with his wife and three young children on the Monterey Peninsula.