SVEN HAAKANSON Sven "Fisherman" Haakanson Jr., is a Kodiak Island native and
archaeology grad student at Harvard University. A self-proclaimed fisherman,
Sven grew up on an island where fishing has been the main industry for thousands of
years. Fascinated by his ancestral ties to Siberia, Sven taught English in Magadan for a year. He
plans to write his
doctoral thesis on the Nenets, a nomadic group of reindeer herders who live in the Yamal Peninsula in
arctic Siberia.
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