Kiyo Marsh and Laura Cooper will be at Darvill’s Bookstore for a book reading and signing for their new book “The Fishes & Dishes Cookbook – Seafood Recipes and Salty Stories from Alaska’s Commercial Fisherwomen,” on Thursday, April 29 at 7 p.m.

Sisters Kiyo and Tomi Marsh were fishing in the Bering Sea on Tomi’s 78-foot commercial fishing boat, the Savage, when they dreamed up the idea of publishing a cookbook combining seafood recipes and personal stories from other fisherwomen they had met and worked with in Alaska.

Tomi, who lives in Ketchikan where the Savage is based, owns and skippers the vessel. Her sister, Kiyo, who now lives in Seattle, ran the deck and galley. Between fishing openings, they both turned out creative, mouth-watering dishes taking advantage of the bounty of seafood available to them. Cooper, of Seattle, a friend and former fisherwoman, brought her own illustrations and a philosophy that stresses the importance of seafood sustainability to the project.

In addition to sharing 80 mouth-watering recipes, the book describes the adventurous lives of women who work in America’s most dangerous industry.