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A couple of those boats really cleaned up. I think they said the deckhands on the Kiska Sea made $118K each for the opilio season!
I don’t remember the # but I think they cleaned up on King Crabs also.
They have to be close to 200K for both seasons.
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2014 The Cornelia Marie is back in the game
Where did you hear that? Josh is Captain?
I guess you didn’t watch the episode, eh, Pugsy?
I’ve been DVRing them and have missed parts of episodes. Was this revealed last week?
The Kiska is a massive ship. I am not surprised it cleaned up. I wonder what the guys on the other boats on Deadliest think of that boat.
I think Discovery chose those other boats because they are a little more intimate.
Jake A. kind of bugs me too. Sometimes. His enthusiasm gets annoying at times. But I have to hand it to him, he is a go getter.
And Wild Bill is way more angry than Keith. I’d hate to be his kid.
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Was this revealed last week?
Yeah. The Hillstrands talked with Josh; they decided that he was ready and that it was time to kick the baby bird out of the nest.
Must have missed it. I did see the preview and they made it seem like they were firing him, which I found odd.
I hope the best for him and his brother and carrying on the legacy.
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Must have missed it. I did see the preview and they made it seem like they were firing him, which I found odd.
Yeah, they totally made it seem like that, but it was just their way of forcing him to take the leap.
Saw the “Bait” and season finalile last night. Need to get caught up via reruns of the missed shows over the last month or so… The Keith and Junior blow up was classic!
-J.
With Mike Fourtner leaving the Time Bandit, here are my Crew/Boat Shakeup Predictions for the next season:
Cornealia Marie – Josh allegedly has put together a deal to “buy” the CM, but there are a lot of murky details around if/how he’d bring the CM back to actually fish. Phil Harris did NOT own the CM outright. From what I’ve read, there is a complicated web of who-owns-what including the boat AND even more important the actual crab quotas they fish. Without which, a boat is usless as t!ts on a boar. Phil’s is estate is currently tied up in probate. Josh would have to buy the boat and have a deal sorted out for quota and have financial backing to front the $1m it will cost just to get out of the dock. I don’t see Josh captaining the CM in 2013 even if he technically owns the boat.
Jake Anderson – Obviously NOT a fit for captaining MegaBoat Kiska Sea. Jake will land on the Time Bandit, not as Mike’s replacement, but as a deckhand.
Freddie – Will stay with the Wizzard. No way Josh can pay him the $ that Keith will and Keith would be crazy to let him go. So what if he enjoys little 35 degree Bering Sea swim now and then? I mean, who doesn’t?
– Elliot and Junior are both on the bubble. I’d bet that one or the other will NOT be back for next year.
Great final show, though.
Grouse
I got one prediction. Elliot ends up in jail for manslaughter. Probably over some hoe who sleeps around.
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I got one prediction. Elliot ends up in jail for manslaughter. Probably over some hoe who sleeps around.
No kidding.
As a therepist and relationship counseler, I have some advice for Elliot. Many of you may not understand this advice, but I assure you it’s based on years of experience and sound treatment principles.
OK, here it goes. Picture Elliot on the couch in my office, box of tissues at his side.
Elliot: OK, Doctor Grouse, I’ve just laid out all my relationship woes. What should I do.
Me: It’s simple, Elliot. Lay off the skank.
Grouse
I could have used that advice before I met Michelle.
That’s easier said than done. Anyone who has ever had this addiction knows, it’s hard to kick. As someone who has kicked the habit, I sit back and often wonder what in the world was I thinking. Then I think, OH YA… 
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Where is the “like” button when I need it Kooty! LOL!
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I could have used that advice before I met Michelle.
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That’s easier said than done. Anyone who has ever had this addiction knows, it’s hard to kick. As someone who has kicked the habit, I sit back and often wonder what in the world was I thinking. Then I think, OH YA…
I’m sensing there are a lot of deep-seated issues here. Both of you would really benefit from professional psychiatric help.
Fortunately for both of you, I’m available!
We’ll need to do several multi-hour sessions to get strated on your issues. We’ll take Kooty’s boat. Pug, you bring beer and two boxes of tissues. Crying is usually involved when it comes to deep-seated skank dating issues.
I’m here for you.
Grouse
Might not be a “Catch” this season if the Fed remains shut down!
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101099315
‘Deadliest Catch’-22: Shutdown may ground crabbing fleet
Published: Wednesday, 9 Oct 2013 | 1:40 PM ETBy: Bill Briggs
AP
Fishermen in Homer, Alaska, prepare for the king crab seasonThe pots are stacked and the boats are packed with crews craving fishing season’s most fruitful frenzy—the one-month, multimillion-dollar harvest of red king crabs from the ocean floors near Alaska’s shores.
Now, the dreariest catch: the federal shutdown means no crabbing permits are being granted to the boats’ skippers. Without those licenses, dozens of vessels will remain docked indefinitely, their captains legally barred from dropping baited traps, or “pots,” on the season’s opening day, Oct. 15.
That would, in turn, leave the crabbing industry reeling and would financially swamp hundreds of fishermen, who earn half of their annual pay during the four-week king-crabbing spree.
“Tens of millions of dollars are potentially at risk if we can’t get the product to market in time for the holiday season in Japan,” said Mark Gleason, executive director of Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers, a trade association that represents most of the crab fishermen who work aboard 80 boats, some made famous through the TV show “Deadliest Catch.”
Fueled by its crab-hungry populace, Japan drives the season’s lucrative yet narrow business cycle, setting pricing and demand trends, Gleason said. To fill Japan’s holiday appetites, the vast bulk of the catch must be hauled aboard, brought to shore, processed at U.S. plants and, ultimately, en route to that island nation by the third week of November.
Even if the partial government shutdown is lifted soon after mid-October — allowing now-furloughed federal workers at the National Marine Fisheries Service to begin issuing crabbing permits – the fleet will need three to five business days to gather those quota licenses and head to sea, shrinking an already-tight window to score fat crabs and big bucks, Gleason said.
And beyond that lost opportunity, the stationary vessels each will ooze about $1,000 per day in costs, he added.
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“There are 80 boats ready to go. When they’re sitting there tied up to the dock, they’re paying moorage fees, paying fuel to keep their generators running, paying for labor, insurance, and food for the crew,” Gleason said. “It’s going to get expensive in a hurry.”
One of those boats now resting in Alaska’s Dutch Harbor is the “Bristol Mariner,” manned by skipper Tom Suryan and his five crew members. Without federal workers available to answer any questions, captains like Suryan, 58, aren’t even sure if they’re legally allowed to go fish for cod to bait their crab traps.
“At the very least it’s going to cost everybody a lot of money,” Suryan said during an interview with NBC News via his boat phone. He and his crew also fish for snow crab during the early months each year. “Whether that brings people to the tipping point or not, it’s hard for me to judge. Just being here is expensive.
“There are always people who operate on the margins. Fortunately, we’re not typically there,” added Suryan, who’s been in the business for 35 years. “But we haven’t fished since spring when we finished up the snow crab (season). So for a lot of these guys, there hasn’t been any income for months. They’re literally banking on this.”
Suryan has never been featured on “Deadliest Catch.” The Discovery Channel’s famous skippers and crews are in Alaska preparing for the beginning of the season and the beginning of production, scheduled for this weekend. Because they are in Dutch Harbor, where cell phone reception is spotty, the producers and captains were not available at press time to be interviewed by NBC News. A spokesperson for Discovery said he did not know if production would be hindered by the shutdown.
Also unclear: whether grocery stores will be stocking or selling Alaskan red king crab this year.
While Japanese consumers are the crabbers’ prime targets, many Americans, of course, enjoy cracking and savoring the crustaceans. In full, the Bristol Bay red king crab season runs to Jan. 15, 2014. Experts had predicted a harvest of 8.6 million pounds, similar to the fleet’s take in 2012-13.
A prolonged federal shutdown could mean that many of those tasty critters may enjoy a temporary reprieve.
“No fishing means more crabs to reproduce in the spring,” Bradley Stevens, a fisheries biologist at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, told NBC News in an email. He collected data for the government on king crab stocks for 22 years.
What’s more, the loss of Alaskan king crab from stores could tempt diners to opt for crab legs pulled from Russian waters. Doing so is a no-no, according to Ken Peterson, a spokesman for the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program, which lists those crabs on its “avoid” list since the fishery is poorly managed and stocks are at critically low levels.
A better alternative, he suggested, is southern red crab from Argentina. Another option is snow crab from Canada.
“There are some other places that people can go,” Peterson said, “if they are still looking for crab.”
—By Bill Briggs, NBC News. John Roach and Maria Elena Fernandez contributed to this report.
I feel for J Harris. Now that he (with investors) has his Dad’s boat, with a huge debt. Hard to make the payments when the Fed’s won’t let you work. 
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