Talk:Alaskan king crab fishing

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I love King Crab!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.4.237.144 (talk) 17:35, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

all i want to know is the depths of the crab pots and type of retreval thats used i.e. rope cable do pots go to bottom of ocean average depth etc......tks
 * Hope this helps! I just wrote a new article. Janet13 02:02, 14 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Nice bit of work - I just polished a few typos and things, and added a couple of links from other articles (as the nice bot suggested), but I'm not knowledgeable enough about the topic to find any other possible articles that might link in here or help me in dis area. Something that might be interesting is to explain how the pots work - how the crabs get in, how they stay in . Cheers! Tony Fox (speak) 03:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks! So, personally, I knew nothing about the topic. I was watching Deadliest Catch and decided to look up the entry in WP... imagine my surprise that it read like an ad and was labeled as such. So I went, researched and wrote a new article, but I don't have enough knowledge of the topic to write more (and some person who actually is familiar with the topic should look over what I *have* written). Janet13 00:43, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Fishing WikiProject
Added template for WikiProject Fishing. Assigned B Class to article and Mid Class to importance as a starting point of rating discussion.  Laughing Vulcan  Laugh With Me /  Logical Entries 14:22, 26 May 2007 (UTC) -- Re-edited article to correct Fishing Project link above.  Laughing Vulcan  Laugh With Me /  Logical Entries 03:07, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Greenhorns
On an episode of Deadliest Catch, it was once stated that (at least on the Cornelia Marie) Greenhorns get half the share that a regular deckhand would.--Marhawkman 00:37, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

If it's so dangerous
Why don't they just make it less dangerous? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 05:04, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

how so? 150.210.176.71 (talk) 23:15, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

He/she was just trying to be funny. Meursault2004 (talk) 00:57, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

4 Days?
Are you kidding me? 4 Days? It takes them over a day of travelling just to get to the fishing grounds, how could it only be 4 days? On the show it clearly lasts over a month. Ulyaoth (talk) 18:09, 23 April 2008 (UTC) The length of the season is determined by projected crab populations and other factors. Not every season is four days, and the article clearly states that this is not a common length. Mrathel (talk) 15:59, 3 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I fished on the Lady Alaska and Lady Kodiak for 3 crab seasons and although the actual fishing "seasons" lasted anywhere from 3.5 days to 5.5 days we spent about 4 days traveling to and from the fishing grounds, sometimes up to a week of waiting after the season just to offload our crab (its a slow process, throwing crab by hand)-just think how many boats were out fishing and all finished at the same time and are now waiting to offload. One season we had to paint the boat and do lots of repairs which took a month to complete, then a 5 day journey from Seattle to Alaska so when its all said and done, that "3.5 day season" was actually about 7 weeks... still it was worth the $12,500 paycheck!   I offer info on how to get jobs at www.alaskafishingjobs.net  ***************  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.236.178.130 (talk) 06:24, 20 December 2008 (UTC)

Grammar
I recently messed around with the grammar in the Equipment section, I marked it as a minor edit, but just wanted to let you know in case there are any objections. The language could use a bit of change for readability, but otherwise, I believe it will suffice. Mrathel (talk) 15:59, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Danger Level
The article states that "Alaskan crab fishing is very dangerous, and the fatality rate among the fishermen is about 80 times the fatality rate of the average worker. It is suggested that, on average, one crab fisherman dies weekly during the seasons."

This is not true, at least not anymore: http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/27/pf/jobs/crab-fishing-dangerous-jobs/index.htm

After the change from the "derby" style season to the quota system there has only been 1 death in 6 years. It is markedly safer these days.

Dusty8807 (talk) 00:19, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Copied section?
The "Types of commercially valuable king crab" section appears to be copied from the following link: http://www.tjseafoods.ca/king_crab_legs_in_kitchener_waterloo_guelph_cambridge.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.172.177.228 (talk) 02:13, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

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Everything is 10 to 15 years out of date
Subject says it all. I kept being surprised by things and then seeing the citation was from an article dating back to 2007 or so. 2601:601:401:7B0:D9E9:417:378C:C6B7 (talk) 06:30, 7 November 2022 (UTC)