re: How long do you think you could last aboard a boat like the Deadliest Catch?

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The cold wet cond was too much for a south Ms boy to handle.

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so is the deadliest catch like swamp people where they do different shite on tv just to make it look more dramatic?

You would get to sleep right? I am sure there were times yolu would work 30 hours straight but it wasn't like that for the entire trip was it?

ETA: Did you do it before the quotas? I heard they use to have many more boats and the season was much shorter.

I get kinda seasick watching the show, so......



I think I could stand on the dock and watch the ships leave OK.

If you made it a season your badass enough for me. I would have tried it when I was 20.

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It changes all the time depending on regulations

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That is what I hear. This year they are talking about much smaller quotas for the Red crab.

But 10-15 yrs ago I thought it was more of a derby type of fishery. Any number of boats could crab fish but the season was only a few weeks...now they set a limit of total lbs and captains/boat owners buy the amount they can catch...ius that right?

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That is what I hear. This year they are talking about much smaller quotas for the Red crab.

But 10-15 yrs ago I thought it was more of a derby type of fishery. Any number of boats could crab fish but the season was only a few weeks...now they set a limit of total lbs and captains/boat owners buy the amount they can catch...ius that right?

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Sort of. Crab went from "derby" to quote about 7 years ago I think. IFQ's for those fisheries are expensive as hell and its always a gamble. The IFQ program has been in existence (for fishing) here since I have lived in the state in one form or another and sets your limits on what you can catch and how many boats can compete.


The real scene is the Bristol Bay salmon fisheries.



Even back in the 90's a guy could go over there with a boat and a license and bring home 100k. Not so much anymore.

Crab fishing is becoming "corporate" more than family business now because of the cost of license and equipment.

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I've heard this is the best shot. Put in your time and get to know the captains and crews and hope someone offers you a job.

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Yep, you don't go green on a ship without some serious contacts. They don't take those risks.

I would probably work on a boat before a processing plant. 7 days a week, 12-16 hours a day. Most of your income is overtime, and base pay is minimum wage for most. You can make good money on the "slime line" but you work your arse off.

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I watched a show on that a few years ago. It looks crazy!

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It's nuts. Some of the guys I went to school with back in the 90's would go over there for a few weeks and come back with more pay than they are making now for a whole year. Regulations have really cut down on the big bucks but it still has that "derby" feel to it.

Salmon roe opening in Sitka is insane though, as many of the crews utilize airplanes to spot the herring. The opening can last only a couple of hours at times.

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What a cluster f-ck! I forgot the name of the show I guess it didn't make it. On the show they had spotter planes finding the schools of fish. If they had guns on board people would get shot

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One of those bush pilot reality shows had a local buy from Juneau flying spotter. No way in hell would I be in the air with those f'kers.

Here is footage from a spotter plane

LINK

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jesus christ, if the shrimp boats acted like that down here we would have multiple "missing" shrimpers every year

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Pretty surprising how crowded it gets with so few incidents. If you look at the video, you can see these boats going at a fairly high speed close to other boats. I guess if you are making money, you don't give a shite about the crowd. I am surprised there are no air crashes during those things.