An interesting commission has just been completed for the son of a well known Steveston fishing family.  It shows one of the Grandfathers fish packers the Princess Aleta and the gillnetter Runnin Bear part of the mosquito fleet (cheap plywood boats canneries built and issued to teenagers each summer)  Each summer the Phoenix Cannery mosquito boats were towed to Rivers Inlet in a line behind one of the seiners to work in that region for a few weeks.  The Father started fishing when he was 16 during the summer holidays, before he had a driver’s license, and continued every summer through university.   Locally, the mosquito boats often worked in the Albion box because they had shallow draft, flat bottoms and frequently ended up dry on the sandbars.