Andy on NPR!

My brother Andy was featured on a recent NPR story about crab fisherman in Northern California. There's some cool video, photos, and the whole audio story here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98788991

(sorry the link doesn't work, I still can't figure out how the hell to make that happen on here)

The story is entitled, "Fishermen Make Mad Dash For Dungeness Crab." That statement is completely true. It's like the wild, wild west with no regulation. The season opens, and fisherman scramble like hell to catch as much crab as possible. As far as I know, there's no limitation to the number of crab pots you can use, the number of crab caught, or the time you can spend crabbing. It seems the larger boats have a bit of an advantage, but I'm not sure I believe in a socialistic/communistic (is that word?) approach where crabbing would be limited by the government. Maybe the fisherman should figure it out for themselves?



I worked on a small Dungeness Crab boat for two seasons down in beautiful Crescent City, CA. It was a great, educational experience. It's difficult work, and I personally wouldn't want to make it my career, but I see why people do. It was also fun to tell people about when I came back to Seattle and they hadn't seen me in a while. "Ben, what have you been up to?" "Oh, I've been in a small town catching crabs." That statement might, in fact have come true if I had spent more time at C.C. nightspot "Everette's."