Eric grew up in Santa Barbara spending most of his summers at the dock fishing off the pier, eventually working on sport and commercial fishing boats in junior high and high school. During his career in auto repair, he spent 15 years sport and competitive spearfishing and free diving. At 35 years old he decided to get back into commercial fishing to help feed his community local fish. He fishes for Black Cod, Blackgill rockfish, vermilion rockfish, lingcod, and many other species.