Lacey Berns was interviewed by Anjuli Grantham in Bern Pile, Viekoda Bay,  Alaska, on July 6, 2015, as part of the Kodiak Historical Society’s West Side Stories project. Lacey was born around 1955 and grew up in California, spent several of her teenage years in Anchorage with her family, returned to California, and moved back to Alaska to Kodiak in 1977. She began setnetting for a cannery in Uganik Bay, learning how to fish and work with the gear without any previous experience. She describes how she and many other people her age moved to the area and were able to buy sites from retiring fishermen. She recalls the party atmosphere of the time, changes in how the cannery operated, the impact of limited entry and the Refuge, what buying a site entails, stories about local personalities, the Nickerson murders, and the Exxon Valdez oil spill. She also relates a number of incidents experienced while fishing and describes changes to her boat and equipment over time, changes in fishing, and the changing relationship of fishermen to management and Fish and Game, as well as changes to housing amenities. She also describes how salmon fishermen became more politically organized and her graduate work writing about the salmon fishery.