The issues causing the strike were working conditions, wages, and regulation of catches and prices, and by the terms on which it was settled the strikers achieved some of their aims.
In the meantime, against a background of political and economic change throughout Seattle, in November 1912 all halibut fishermen sailing out of the Seattle-Tacoma port went on strike.
[3] The strike lasted from November 1912 until February 13, 1913 and caused a decline in fish harvest and consumption as well as impacting the economy of the port and further afield.
Eventually the Deep Sea Fishermen's Union and Seattle's port commissioners came to a compromise, by which the Union fishermen returned to work under the condition that halibut prices increase to one and a quarter cents per pound, close to their original request of one and a half cents per pound.
These measures meant that fishermen and crewmen would no longer need to travel such long distances in order to reach their quota.