The Deadliest Catch

I'm excited to announce the new season 5 of the Deadliest Catch is starting soon!
According to the Discovery Channel we get to watch:
Cornelia Marie, Lisa Marie, Northwestern, Time Bandit, and the Wizard make come backs as well as a new Captain and fleet on the Trailblazer.

You can see the kick-off commercial for the show and subscribe to the Discovery Channels Official Deadliest Catch video's on YouTube here.

Hint: Phil's back!!!

According to CNN/Money magazine, fishing is the second most deadliest and dangerous job in the world!
According to Gunnar Knapp of the University of Alaska, "The environment in which the crabbing is done, in the Bering Sea, in winter, has to be some of the worst conditions on Earth. You're hundreds of miles from port, in stormy seas, with ice forming all over, sometimes so thick it capsizes the boat."
Fishermen sustain injuries from working with heavy gear and machinery. Alaskan crabbers use huge cages as traps that weigh hundreds of pounds of steel per pot.

No wonder the Alaskan shellfish industry averaged 400 fatalities per 100,000 workers during the 1990s. Many dying of drowning and hypothermia which can occur in just seconds after touching the harsh temperatures of the sea.

The fishermen fish for as much crab they can get in the least amount of time as the season doesn't last long.

At the end of the crabbing season, if the season was good, the crewman can earn upwards of $1,000 a day for his well-earned hard work.

"The Deadliest Catch" documents the reality of crab fishing in the Bering Sea near Alaska. Dutch Harbor is the "watering-hole" for the fishermen and the base port of their fishing operations. The show is filmed aboard the fishing vessels.

It's January (now February) and you know what that means: Opilio crab fishing has begun! The season is well underway and the guys are doing what they do best out on the big, bad Bering. They're on the hunt for Chionoecetes opilio -- also known as snow crab.

It's tasty. It's wonderful. It's a way of life.

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After last week's episode of the Deadliest Catch, I couldn't help myself, but to dig a bit and see how our Captain Phil is fairing?!
Last week, Tuesday, June 24th, most of the show time went (with great respect) to the Cornilia Marie and ships Captain Phil after he slid out of bed and puncture a lung and was coughing up blood the whole episode. I don't know about anyone else, but I couldn't wait till next week or next season to find out if he's allright!
Here's what I found...
According to Access Atlanta, Phil said,"Everything in my body aches. It takes me 20 minutes to get out of bed every morning. I've had Marines come on the boat. They say this makes boot camp look like a picnic." The article goes on to say that he did puncture a lung and broke his ribs. But his condition worsened after a blood clot dislodged and traveled to his heart. He almost died from a pulmonary aneurysm, and the remains of the clot are still life-threatening.
Phil, "I'm eating massive amounts of medicine to break down the clot. I take them every day and pray."

I originally was going to link to the article, but when I tried it with HTML, here, and went back to see if the link worked, they wanted a bunch of login information. Sorry I couldn't help with that!

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Yes, but not exactly like the men in the Deadliest Catch!

Crab fishing season just started here in Bellingham, Wa. My husband and I decided to give it a try. We found that crab fishing in our neck of the woods is simple compared to what the boys on the Deadliest Catch go through...
However, it is a great experience and we plan to do more crab fishing throughout the season here.
Our first time out we came home with 6 legal size crab right out of Bellingham Bay!
What I mean by "legal" is that the crab you catch, whether commercial crab fishing or regular people like you or me out crabbing, we all have legal standards for size of crab you can keep.
Around here we can keep 5 crab per day and the crab need to be at the very least 6 1/4 inches arcross the shell and they have to be a male. No females can be "legally" kept! Rock crab has to be only 5 inches across the shell to be a keeper and the limit per day for rock crab is 6 per person per day.
My husband and I enjoy crab fishing.
It is a lot of fun and has increased our love and respect for those who crab fish commercially out on the raging Bering Sea, like on the Deadliest Catch.
Around here we can get Rock Crab and Dungeoness Crab.
On the Deadliest Catch, the men fish for Alaska King Crab (big crab!) and Oplilio Crab is caught only in the Bering Sea.
Since we have a new found love for the sport of crabbing, we also have started a website for crab lover's alike called Crab-O-Licious Drop by sometime and find more information about other types of crab and some really good crab recipes!