Oh I like to be at the seaside... oh I do like to be beside the sea

Maborikaigan Seawall
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Miura Peninsula, Japan - January 2025
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Crab season, Dungeness crab, opens here on 15 January. That means you can set your crab pots three days before, today, 12 January. And so it is here. These guys and more like them will load up al those pots that have been filling up motel parking lots and any other open spaces close to the water onto their boats. Then out to sea to set them, up and down the coast. 15 January they can be pulled and those delicious crabs will come tumbling into the holds. And eventually onto dinner plates. ;o)

 
boojum said:
Crab season, Dungeness crab, opens here on 15 January. That means you can set your crab pots three days before, today, 12 January. And so it is here. These guys and more like them will load up al those pots that have been filling up motel parking lots and any other open spaces close to the water onto their boats. Then out to sea to set them, up and down the coast. 15 January they can be pulled and those delicious crabs will come tumbling into the holds. And eventually onto dinner plates. ;o)

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What do these folks fish for when it's not crab season?
 
Retro-Grouch said:
What do these folks fish for when it's not crab season?
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Hake, salmon, tuna, shrimp are what comes to mind immediately. Hake is big and is processed here in town and shipped out frozen and as surimi frozen. Likewise shrimp. There are also sardines, large ones. There are the remnants of a great salmon run which is fished by trawlers offshore and then by "bowpickers" (Bowpickers) when they are in the Columbia and its tributaries. Non-commercial fish with lines. But the great salmon runs of the past are long gone. All that is left is a trickle and that is tenuous.

There are some boats which sail north to Alaska for the season up there. That's even more dangerous. Read Spike's books about this. He is a great writer and storyteller and a great guy, too. Amboy man’s book paved way for TV’s ‘Deadliest Catch’ The preface of Working on the Edge will stand your hair on end, and then it gets really scary. Spike is one hell of a guy. His books are wonderful.
 
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