His oldest son and another crew hand are sharing the duties I think. But ive only watched like 5 minutes of the new season so I could be wrong.
Most Dangerous Jobs In The World: http://www.qualityhealth.com/health-lifestyle-articles/8-most-dangerous-jobs-world #1 Fishermen Fans of the TV show Deadliest Catch know this job's no joke. Men and women who work in the fishing industry regularly put their lives at risk, battling forces of nature, including treacherous storms and extreme temperatures. In addition, many fishermen, proud of their reputation for being independent spirits, sometimes make the risky decision to buck safety regulations.
If only there was a show about people risking their lives to catch stuff from the ocean, then you might understand.
Easy. They have to fight killer waves and arctic temperatures off the coast of Alaska to catch these things.
Yes, my dad was a Fisherman back in the day. 3 of his friends/fisherman have lost their lives out in the sea. All 3 Fell down to be never seen again.
When I lived on Okinawa, Mom would decide lobster for dinner. My brother and I was tasked to head out to the reef and nab a few. Mom would always say, "don't forget the squid/octopus"...natural enemy of the lobster, and she just loved eating them while we had the lobster. Why I bring this up? When we came to the US in 73, can you imagine our shock paying $25 for a little tail of lobster. As far as I'm concerned, it was bad then and atrocious now. Sufice it to say, I'm not inclined to eat them these day.
I've never caught it. But there's this movie called My Life, starring Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman. It's about the life of a lobsterman, it's eye opening.
Lobster cannot be farmed raised, seeing as how it take 7 YEARS (not 2) for them to grow a pound, and 3 years for each additional pound. Lobster fishing and Crab Fishing like you see on deadliest catch are two completely different animals. Most Lobster fishing is done on smaller boats, kind of like the small crab boats you would see checking traps around Galveston Bay. There typically is not the danger involved like in Alaskian Crab Fishing, but it still is very hard work. The market price is typically dependant on where the lobster is coming from. Maine Lobster=EXPENSIVE. Why? The meat is sweeter, the lobster is heathier which typically means bigger, and the markets up there know this, so the exploit buyers for that price. You see alot of restaurants such as Red Lobster (Managed there) put there "Live Maine Lobster" display at the front of the store, and typically your paying 28 dollars for a 1.5 pound lobster whole, and 15 dollars for each additional pound, which basically means they are making absolutely no profit on that particular item. Where they make the money is in the lobster tails they put in meals (The ones not in the live tank). Unless you are specifically getting a Rock Lobster (No claws, comes from the carribean, mucho expensive) then basically your getting what they call a "Maine Lobster Tail" which is actually coming from places like New Hampshire or Rhode Island, where basically the market value is half of what it is in Maine. Yet the restaurant is BANKING off of you, because their charging you the same price as if it was a Maine Lobster that they had bought and then profitted on. Does that make any sense at all, my head hurts.
It's so expensive because who WOULDN'T want to pay extra to eat giant sea dwelling cockroaches? ar·thro·pod (är'thrə-pŏd') n. Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and myriapods, that are characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are articulated in pairs. that said I do like me some lobstertailz.
