As the former owner of two crabbing boats I used for crabbing in the Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, I approve of this video. The only thing missing was "peeler pots." which have a smaller mesh to trap the smaller female peelers. Whenever I would pull up a hard crab pot, if it had a Jimmy (mature male) toting a female, I would use that male as bait in the peeler pot bair well to attract females looking for a male to tote them. Since the male would be surrounded by females he couldn't get to, he would put out more and more pheromones to attract more peelers. You could easily get 25 to 50 peelers in one peeler pot if you put it in the right place in the water and you had a strong toter. If you pull up a peeler pot with few peelers, Jimmy goes into the bushel basket and gets replaced.
I’m curious as to the current state of the shrimp industry is in now. Years ago around 73 - 80 I shrimped off and on with my cousin who owned a shrimp boat. It was tough then and dying out
now imagine aliens make a documentary about humans like this ! humans tatiest time is right after they give a birth babies are yummy so we freeze the new born babies and eat them later
As a teenager I worked on the double rigger Nancy Jane out of Dulac LA. Learning to pilot operate LORAN NAVIGATION AND RADAR AND CLEANED NETS AND PICKED SHRIMP. IT WAS AMAZING SLEEPING UNDER THE STARS!!!
Excellent Documentary.. Growing up on Martha’s Vineyard, we’d go out in a row boat and scoop up the skittering Blue Crabs in about three feet of water with pole nets and fill up a 5 gallon bucket and take it home for a Crab Boil. Our parents always appreciated that and would do the boiling. Someone would inevitably get a good bite while handling them, holding up.a hand with a crab hanging off it., while in great pain. Those waters have since become polluted due to powerboats and posted as such:”No Shellfishing.”
@rhon ahid No Its not, your very uneducated on the subject. you cant drag a bottom trawl over rough bottoms it has to be smooth or it hangs up. that should be common sense.
Not really. Not at all actually. They’re screwed if they hit coral, rocks, reefs, wrecks, whales and other big objects. They’re as risk averse as any other smart business, so you’re only freaking out at an imagined concept, due to your own lack of knowledge in this area. They don’t want to hit stuff and they don’t have the equipment to trawl over a reef and it isn’t where the big catches of fish and shrimp are. Sure, the bigger metal industrial trawl doors have done damage here and there but it’s a big loss to them when something hits hard. The sea is very transactional that way. Mess with it, it’ll mess with you. So they’re careful and they tread lightly. Anyone that doesn’t is kept out of the business by virtue of repeatedly kept off the water because they’re breaking their towed equipment. So, take a deep breath bud :) they have this quite well figured out. Enjoy some seafood tonight and thank them later.
Now wheres the big loss?, On the nature/reef or on the human interaction?, I don't care of what kind of fishing style they are using all I care is that before they invade that reef that is as healthy as it can be. I also go on fishing but not that way. That is overkilling the marine lives. Maybe, someday all of the marine biology/life will be just found on the pages of the books that even our grandchildren will never recognize even a pufferfish in reality. Now, who's uneducated one here?
