1960S KODIAK ALASKA KING CRAB FISHING INDUSTRY AND EXPORT XD10944

[@ThommyofThenn]

What a timely upload. I'm from AK and there's some crab drama going on

[@bok..]

The missing crabs

[@ThommyofThenn]

@@bok.. correct

[@buckhighnation9641]

Seen they banned this season

[@bok..]

@@ThommyofThenn anyone have any idea what happened to them. Fraud or like die off?

[@ThommyofThenn]

@@bok.. not sure in this case, but several times in the past, the Japanese and Russians have "accidentally" crossed into US waters to illegally fish. Obviously this isn't reported but even then I don't think they could over fish that much.No, I'm thinking this is a mix of illegal fishing AND habitat loss perhaps. Not a biologist so if anyone has a better explanation I would really appreciate more info

[@westenn311]

I lived at Kodiak from 1961 to 1963 when my dad was stationed at the Navy base. I remember the King Crab Festival and the scuba divers diving in the harbor for king crab.

[@kathyolney4083]

Great film of yesteryear!!! I hope the crab population returns, and isn't gone for good!! 💫

[@kennethjohnson9370]

I very interesting episode of the life and how they catch the Alaska king Crab around Kodak Island we used to eat Alaska King Crab in the late 60s. when it was cheap tastes real good

[@TimothyTocci]

Love checking out history through these videos - thank you!👍👍👍👍

[@jonhohensee3258]

No you don't.

[@miketackabery7521]

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[@jonhohensee3258]

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[@johncashwell1024]

My coworker just got back from Alaska and we were watching her slide show when I saw the notification for this!

[@EnlistedBombin]

I actually started fishing for Deep Sea Fisheries, the guy that owned the boat they are talking about. When I started working the guy who owned it was in his 80s. But the logo for the company was the old deep sea. It cool to see the first square pots and how they were just made out of curved rebar and not steel solid steel tube. I wish I could have caught crab that big and plentiful... would be rich rich rich lol Can not believe they glazed the legs in the box.. San Jaun Packing company is now the Cargo terminals in seattle. Ocean Beauty is Still around and have combined with Icicle Seafoods, they still have a offices around fishermans terminal in Seattle and have lots of plants but do not process crab any longer. I would love to see a record of the recipes they are making! Nothing like eating king crab right out the ocean :D Think I am one the last few who have gotten to do it. I retired from Commercial pot fishing in 2022.

[@Lohkey]

Fantastic as always. Thanks for the hours of history-nerd-out you've provided. It's both incredible and perhaps alarming that many of the ships in this video are still in operation today. I think I saw the Northwestern :P (very tongue in cheek)

[@robertlavrakas7442]

Love those purple spiders👍👍👍👍

[@brunotulliani]

Small boats and really huge crabs!

[@miketackabery7521]

Sure wish they'd put some info in when they upload these videos. Like when was it filmed? All I can be sure of is it's pre-1964.

[@danzmitrovich6250]

Good lunch for my table at anytime and its all good place for fishing at anytime for other meats as well

[@Gannett2011]

I have to say it's the film aesthetic that does it for me: faded prints (though this one seems pretty well preserved), pops, blerps, cuts and jumps, roving threads; the unhurried narration over classic production library music. And you learn something along the way.

[@danstinson7687]

I heard they cacelled the snow crab season this year due to lack of crabs.

[@AppliedCryogenics]

I read that snow crab season was cancelled this year due to the unexplained disappearance of BILLIONS of crabs.

[@gingersnap7793]

Damn russians.....always coming over poaching the crabs....

[@Itsmehiimmthebaconi]

I live in kodiak

[@kenaidog6974]

Completely wiped out.

[@Whiskeymike1229]

They are in a world of shit at the moment

[@jhonnythefox7903]

The holocaust of crabs...

[@Dan-we7vs]

lived in Juneau in the 60s ...dad worked at the glass shop ,me food village super Market