# Deadliest Catch starts tonight.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 3, 2007, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543 "2007-04-03T11:52:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/101 "2007-05-09T15:58:57Z")

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[QUOTE=D\_Odds]  
True, **Duke** , but then the 350K boat is doing 3.5 times the work, and is splitting the pot more ways, and has a higher operating expense. I don’t think it evens out, but it does bring it closer.

I did feel sorry for Blake, especially as he was dumping crab. Looked like a banner year for King Crab. Too bad we won’t see him hunting for Opilio - they said he was taking the season off.  
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Yeah, looked like a monster year for crab. Maybe the quotas have such an effect. Not a bad few weeks of work for a boat owner – pay a couple hundred thousand in expenses on a million dollar gross. Damn.

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**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/102 "2007-05-09T17:34:51Z")

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[QUOTE=D\_Odds]  
True, **Duke** Too bad we won’t see him hunting for Opilio - they said he was taking the season off.  
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Which means Rick and Donna should be back, I’d think – didn’t it say in the first episode that they were taking the red crab season off?

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2007, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deadliest-catch-starts-tonight/398543/103 "2007-05-10T18:41:18Z")

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It’s interesting that Sig has to deal with an artificial time limit now, due to the changing prices. Just like the good old days.

Speaking of which, I’ve been watching season 1 in reruns, and that was crazy. The season only lasted a few days, so if you had trouble like a bad prop or a guy with the broken arm, you just deal with it I guess. Otherwise you’d end up with no money at all because the season might end while you were at the dock. Very dangerous.

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