crab fishing
Trapping ocean claws
Crab fishing is the commercial harvesting of crabs, typically using baited traps called pots lowered to the ocean floor.
The industry is notoriously dangerous, with crews working long hours in frigid, rough seas—a reality popularized by television documentaries: He spent three seasons crab fishing in the Bering Sea.
- baitLure for prey
- trapDevice for catching animals
- boatWatercraft for travel
- potVessel for cooking
- haulPull or carry laboriously
seasonal harvest · Bering Sea · deckhand · buoy · Deadliest Catch · rough seas · cold water · ice buildup · seafood market · crabber · winch · sustainable practices · coastal town · season · shell · crustacean · catch · nets
- fishing industrytrawling, fisherman, trawlers, trawl net, gillnetting
- Coastal AlaskaSitka, Juneau, Ketchikan, Glacier Bay, fjords
- UK fishingcod, haddock, herring, mackerel, plaice
- AlaskaFairbanks, Juneau, Denali, Sitka, Kodiak
- dangerous jobsfirefighting, bomb disposal, offshore drilling, oil rigs, coal mining
- risksrisk, gamble, bet, wager, chance it
crab fishingwhaling
Hunting large sea mammals
salmon fishing · tuna fishing · cod fishing · squid fishing · clam digging
crab fishingtrawling
Net-dragging fishing method
angling · longlining · gillnetting · spearfishing · fly fishing
crab fishingcattle ranching
Raising bovines commercially
farming · crop harvesting · hunting · poultry farming · sheep herding