New Online Magazine “MUMBLE” Interviews Corey Arnold of the Rollo

 It goes by the name of Mumble.   In it, Clive Noctchaw interviews Corey Arnold and we learn more about Corey, his thoughts on fishing, photography, and the big project he’s been working on:  FiskMagazine.
How old are you and where are you from?
I’m 30 and I grew up in the suburb of Vista, California.  I also lived [...]

Cheers to Deadliest Catch

Cheers: to more reasonable crab prices. Snow crab prices have climbed to a base of $1.65 from last year’s terrible lows of just 92 cents, meaning crab fishermen actually have a chance for some return on their investment this year, instead of merely fighting to pay off loans. And in a curious twist, some observers [...]

Discovery Finds Its Roots, Ratings…and Deadliest Catch Renewed For Another Season

Anthony Crupi
APRIL 09, 2007 - It was fitting that Discovery Communications elected to hold its April 5 New York upfront presentation inside Frederick P. Rose Hall, the Columbus Circle performance space that was designed specifically for jazz concerts. Heading into the annual ad-sales maelstrom with significant ratings momentum and a new chief executive at the [...]

Live Chat with Blake Painter

Discovery: Welcome to the first chat in our weekly Deadliest Catch chat series. Our first guest is Blake Painter, greenhorn captain of the Maverick. Ask him about his rise from deckhand to captain and life aboard to Maverick.
Blake Painter: Hello everybody, I’m happy to be here. I appreciate all the positive feedback over the last [...]

Behind The Scenes of Deadliest Catch

     Have you wondered just how the show is put together?  Today I learned that the Original Production filming crew loses almost all their cameras when out at sea.  They operate with two man crews on each fishing vessel and after each day of filming they call in what they captured to executive producer Jeff [...]

When the Crab is KING

Source:  Food & Arts
Alaska’s fishermen risk their lives each time they make a run for the lucrative king crab. Chefs and seafood aficionados are the beneficiaries of their death-defying work.

Greg Atkinson reports.
Flying from Anchorage over the Gulf of Alaska toward Dutch Harbor to kick off the Bristol Bay red king crab season, I looked out [...]

WHAT IS A KING CRAB?

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  Names

Illustrations by Chris Van Dusen
Images Courtesy of Seafood Business Magazine

   Latin: Paralithodes camtschatica
French: Crube
German: Kurtschwanz-krebs
Spanish: Cangrejo
Russian: Kamchatskii krab
Japanese: Tarahagani

  Description

The king crab, as its name might imply, is the largest of all the commercially important crab species and is always in high demand. An adult king crab might reach lengths of up to 2.5 meters (8 ft). [...]

WHAT IS AN OPILIO CRAB?

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Illustrations by Chris Van Dusen
Images Courtesy of Seafood Business Magazine

   Latin: Chionoecetes opilio; C.hairdi, C. tanneri, C. japonicus
French: Crabe
German: Kurzschwanz-krebs
Spanish: Cangrejo
Russian: Krab streegoon
Japanese: Zuwaigani

  Description

The market name of snow crab applies to four species, the Latin names of which are listed above. The snow crab is a member of the spider crab family. Snow crabs can grow [...]