David Little was interviewed by Anjuli Grantham on June 19, 2015, at Surf City in Uganik Bay, Alaska, as part of the Kodiak Historical Society’s West Side Stories project. David Little was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1952 but was brought up in Southern California, moving to Alaska at the age of 29. He quit a career as a research psychologist at the Department of Defense and, through various personal encounters, worked in a cannery in Anchorage and then Kodiak and fell into the area’s setting community, buying his first permit with his wife Lisa in 1985. He recounts the different characters he worked with in the cannery and in fishing and shares many anecdotes of the diverse people he has encountered in the area, the difficulty of making any money at the start of his fishing career, and the lifestyle that seasonal fishing enables. He describes how Kodiak has changed since the early 1980s, such as the disappearance of a party atmosphere when the king crab fishery and its big money stopped, the increase in families living in the area, and the impact that new communication technologies have had, noting how the cannery had acted as the community’s social hub for many residents and their connection to the outside world. He describes how fishermen negotiate the boundaries of their sites and work with their neighbors, changes in gear and boats and the impacts it has had on product quality, the differences in mentality between seining and setnetting, and the impact on competitive pricing from the decline in the number of processors. Little also touches on his experiences his experiences building his house and living on Refuge land, the 1980s seining strikes, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, and the impact of IFQs on his fishing.