Posted: 5/1/2007 5:28:12 PM EDT
| Awesome show. What do you figure they pay the camera men to go out there? Do you think the guys on the boat get paid for being on the show? |
Here is Sig and Edgar on Jay Leno recently....... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUuq4hT38ks Great show, just wish they showed it in HD. |
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Some of those crabs they catch are giants. I wish i had me some of them. ALSO, did anyone see the episode where they were catching COD? and were bitching about how little they get paid for it? I think they were saying they got something like .35 cents per pound for the cods. WTF COD is so fucking expensive where im at, yet they get paid shit for it. |
I remember one season where we only got 23 cents a pound for Pink Salmon......still made some bucks. |
Think of all the people and transport between the boat and you. Everybody down that line needs to make a living and pay the bills. Those boats need gas, those trucks need gas, etc. |
no doubt, those trawlers they have are huge! Im sure if there wasnt money in it they wouldnt be doing it. But i couldnt believe the price per pound they were getting while the finished COD cuts at the store are 10x more. |
I remember that. When Deadliest Catch came out, I remember thinking "cool, they made a series out of it!" |
same here |
2 seasons over and done with and working on a third I hear. Though I do see your point. Everty show they drop some traps, then reel them back up. some times theres crasb, sometimes not. then cut to one of 3 boat captains who comment on things. repeat as nessasary. I admit I watch it and mythbusters reruns in the mornings. of course Im not really paying attention to the tv and the only other things on are "worlds stupidest police video reruns" and the maury povich "whos my baby daddy this time" show.. |
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It is an amazing industry, and those are some tough SOBs. The show does a pretty good job at keeping it about fishing, but I have liked getting to learn a bit more about the folks themselves. There is discussion forum over at discovery.com just about the show and there was some talk of compensation to the boat owners and it was in hundreds of thousands per season. It slows the crews down having them filming, and apparently they have to spend about an extra month in Dutch shooting scenes like the boats coming in and out etc. |
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My wife and I have watched the series since the beginning. Best show on TV besides Lost. It is a new season, and on Tues. nights they re-run the previous week's episode before the new one. I spent 3 months on Akutan Island doing construction for Trident Seafoods on a new processing plant. It took in cod and crab, and processed them at incredible rates. I can't say what the exact amounts for the crab was, but we put in 1 million pounds of cod in 26 hours. A vacuum hose sucked the cod out of the holds, and were put into a set of 10 100,000 gallon tanks. A ladder carried them to a de-scaler drum, and then the head and tail were sawn off by a machine as fast as you could put them in. Then, gutted and filleted at 240-480 per minute.Alot was made into fillets,which were then flash frozen at -40F, then the rest was ground up into surimi. This was then shipped to Japan to make into fake crab meat. I met alot of these brave,crazy bastards while there, and have the utmost respect for commercial fisherman. Sometimes those guys looked like they had been in car wrecks they looked so beat up. You could never get me out on one of those boats, not after seeing those guys hit land. |