A controlling corporate accountant returns home to inherit a debt-burdened salmon boat family business forcing her to reconcile the pain of her fisher mother's death with her rebellious teen daughter's call back to the sea. 

SYNOPSIS:

Christine (Chris) Johanson grew up on the docks of Northern California with fishing in her blood. But as overfishing made it even harder to eek out a living and her fisher mother was washed to sea, Chris left to outrun the past. Now a divorced, overworked corporate accountant in San Francisco; Chris can’t stop her tomboy daughter, Lucie, from returning to answer the call of the sea on summer breaks. This salmon season while fishing on the all-wood troller that’s been in their family generations, Lucie’s grandpa skipper, Stan, passes away. Chris is forced to juggle the corporate grind with going home to grieve and decide the fate of the debt-burdened family business. Yet in the process of burying her father and facing past demons, Chris finally opens up to Lucie. Romance also blossoms with Alec, Stan’s free spirit deckhand. Together they find a better way to support the endangered Chinook 'King' salmon stocks by embracing a more sustainable Community Supported Fishery co-op – selling seafood locally ‘boat to plate’ – with the other fishers in the tight-knit town. Still, questions remain. Will the new direct marketing approach and sorely needed supply chain transparency alter the balance of power in the fisher's favor? Or is it too little, too late? Chris has no intention of sticking around long enough to find out. Alec may accuse her of running again and Lucie may never forgive her mother, but Chris is compelled to make the safer, less risky choice. Or is the real risk missing out on life? Catch of the Day is a poignant drama about the danger of suppressing the yearnings of the heart for a 'someday' payoff… only to end up waiting a lifetime to really live.