Alibi Mike presents the first summer of a fisheries biologist while a senior at the University of Alaska. Woven into the stories are descriptions of village life along the Yukon River in 1972 before telephones and television had reached the area. The kass'ik (white) young man suddenly finds himself a minority, learning a new job; that is very unlike his classes or what he's seen on Wild Kingdom or Disney nature films. The village of Emmonak and the commercial fishery for salmon at the mouth of the Yukon River as it was then is described. The activities of seasonal technicians hired by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to monitor commercial fisheries, tag fish and collect subsistence catch data are described as they were then; before major advances in technology and changes in agency's responsibility changed fisheries management in Alaska. A few love stories also weave into the stories. It explains how a person can fall in love with natural resource management and make it a lifelong career.Lovers of nature will enjoy the learning how the professionals charged with protecting our wildlife do there job in the field. Technology has improved the methods but the fundamentals are the same. Woven in is life in the Alaskan Bush before electronic screens and running water, a couple of love stories and a young man gaining maturity.