U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski breaks a bottle of champagne on the bow of the F/V Mirage Friday at the Gary Paxton Industrial Park deep water dock as Sitkans Jeff Turner and Linda Behnken look on. Tradesmen worked at the industrial park over the past year to install an electric hybrid propulsion system on the Mirage, completing the first phase of a federally-funded Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association initiative to fit three boats with battery-electric motors. (Courtesy/James…

Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.