friend kaiwik,
i would like to add my thanks for your insight. i have really been enjoying the show.
OK, kaisik, you owe me $5 for the keyboard I just shorted out with drool.
[My personal favorite food orgy was when four of us shared 4 3-pound lobsters shipped live from Maine…]
p.s. One time on the Texas coast near Corpus Christi, a bunch of us caught and cooked a butt-load of blue crabs. There ain’t nothin’ better than fish/seafood cooked within an hour or so being caught…
err, kaiwik. :o
Lennon Lives, I would also like to add that we have roots which tie us to this community, cultural roots, and the cost of living here is obscene. For us, at least, it isn’t about risking his life so we can have luxury items, trips, what-have-you. In fact, he left me this time with a truck that needs a new flywheel, and a broken water heater! Believe me, the day when he tells me he is done with the Bering Sea will be a happy day indeed. 
Meanwhile, bills need paying, kids are spendy, and he is…a fisherman. And I am proud of him.
Subsistence pots are indeed for personal use. One applies for a subsistence license, (they’re free for residents) and then it’s just getting the pots baited and into the water. I believe the limit now is two or three pots per household, with X amount of crab allowed per person per household. I am not current on the limits, but we have three species here, red, tanner, and dungeness. Tanner and red crab hang out in the same areas, and are often caught in the same (tanner) pot. Dungies live in a different sort of ocean bottom, and are caught in smaller pots. Tanners are what opies and bairdies wish they were, btw!
longhair75, and everyone else, thank you all for your interest and kind words. If I am not mistaken, next weeks episode was filmed, at least in part, in Kodiak. Maybe you will get a view of my hometown!
Thank you, Lennon Lives but no, I am not close to feeling better yet. I’ve moved up to nyquil, and I am going to go take a hot shower and have a cup of cocoa with a liberal splash of Malibu before I go to bed…stupid Kodiak Crud! (yes, that is a medical diagnosis here on the Rock!)
Tonight the last episode airs, and the Kodiak Daily Mirror ran a short article regarding the show, I thought there might be one or two folks here who might be interested in reading it.
http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/
Enjoy!
After watching a couple of episodes over the weekend, it’s firmly convinced me to stick with the blue crabs.
At least with them, the only real risk is that you’ll miss catching a fish while pulling the crab lines up. (we usually throw a couple over the gunwales with chicken necks on them).
LOL (I’m sure that the idea of $10K for 5 days work is mighty appealing.)
I guess tonight’s show was the finale? So will Life As You Know It change?
I can understand that the crabbers prefer the balls-out, get all you can approach. But, holy cow! 6 fisherman died in a single season? It’s amazing the current system lasted as long as it did…
p.s. This article might convince them to stay home, though.