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Forty grueling days into the fall season...

Woo!

We got an offload.

We can turn around, get back out here,

- and catch some more crab. - Yup.

only 15%

of the fleet-wide red king crab quota remains,

forcing the 25 king boats into a cutthroat search

for the last of the $30-million bounty.

If you can find the faster fishing,

if you're that much farther ahead of the game

and there's always a better way.

Those who have delivered their reds

turn to a more elusive species.

We're right back into the bairdi season,

and we have a secret weapon

that has been shipped all the way from Norway.

What is it?

Just load.

Now, with 12 vessels

due to enter the fishery in 72 hours,

captains launch their next season,

looking to claim ground

for the $13.6 million bairdi bonanza.

I got 100,000 pounds to catch, so...

If you're not pushing the limits,

you'll never win.

That's what I need right now,

fast information.

Rick.

He's [bleep] lying to me.

I just have to do what I gotta do.

Because of insurance,

everybody's had to have a urinalysis.

Watch out.

They gotta be on their toes.

206 miles north of Dutch Harbor...

You guys ready? Roger!

...on the Northwestern.

We're right on the fence here.

A 166 degree line that goes north and south.

I had this area marked up in my plotter.

We've seen really good sign of life.

We got a lot of pops,

but we wanna make sure we dial them in properly.

We want fast fishing.

If you could find faster information,

you're that much farther ahead of the game.

I know there's crab around here.

I just don't know which way they're going.

Seeing traces of a migrating school

before his offload,

Captain Sig Hansen bets

he can tank his 20-ton bairdi obligation

and even ensnare an additional 15,000 pounds

if he can zero in on the biomass.

Stand by, please.

I think this would be a good time

to throw out my secret weapon.

You wanna unwrap your present?

What is it?

We'll unwrap it. - Cut it open, Carl.

Oh, my. That looks like...

What the [bleep].

Okay.

I wanna try it on tanners.

They're faster fishing 'cause you got plastic.

They don't crawl up the sides as fast.

It'll just go to the tunnel faster.

So you see the three tiers?

You got one in the bottom, middle, top.

It's open, open, open.

Crafted for high-speed prospecting,

the smaller specialized two-by-two-foot pots

are lighter and offer three times the entry points

for hungry crab,

allowing Sig to get a snapshot

of the school below

before setting his deck load

of thousand-pound Alaskan pots.

I don't know. I'm pretty skeptical about this pot.

It's Norwegian, so of course it's good...

It ain't gonna work.

Wow.

I need big fishing here

out of the gear I have on deck,

and these little guys are gonna help me do it.

Held together by zip ties.

Look at that.

We're going north, south, east, west,

all around that perimeter

and we're gonna see if we can find where there's life.

Okay. Right about there.

Go ahead. Ready?

Hopefully, we find some sign.

98 miles southeast...

Because it's...

I'm really, really far away from you.

Luca, you wanna see some crab?

You can't do that?

Why not?

on the Titan Explorer.

Move.

Oh, fishing's terrible.

The whole string is garbage.

Okay. I love you. Bye-bye.

We're not going home at this rate.

I gotta stack all these.

I got this string here in 62 fathoms.

This is the northernmost end of my gear.

I got 100,000 pounds to catch, so...

Got a long season.

I better get on them quick

or I'm not gonna ever have an end of a season.

I've gotta earn trust from the crew.

I've gotta earn trust from the owners.

So there's a lot at stake.

Damn it.

I gotta get out of here.

I don't know where to go though.

This was really hot fishing during the survey.

Different times. Times are changing.

I know Rick's in the area.

I don't know him or his family very well,

but I might as well give him a call.

Just four miles south...

Come on, crab. Come on, crab.

Coming up.

Man, nothing.

[bleep]. Okay.

Well, that sucks.

That is not how you wanna start a bairdi season.

on the Aleutian Lady.

We haven't seen anything. But you know what?

We have plenty more to go.

Okay. Come on.

Hey, Jake, how are you doing?

I'm getting my ass kicked.

I mean, my numbers are just weak.

Yeah, I'm just getting started.

I'll take whatever you have.

I haven't seen any crab yet.

Hey, we have a few hundred pots between us.

Do you wanna share some info?

Yeah!

Yeah!

Great idea. Let's team up

and knock the out of this.

Yeah. Okay.

Let me get this stuff stacked on and we'll meet up.

We'll be blasting your way.

Hey, man, I gotta pay attention here.

Give me a shout once you're all wrapped up

and heading down.

Okay. Cool, Rick.

All right. Take care, man.

All right. You too. Later.

Later.

Uh, crab count, 252.

Are you [bleep] me, man?

Two fifty-two.

Woo! Woo!

Woo-hoo!

That was frickin' kickass pot.

Looks like misery loves company.

If there's gonna be an element of trust in this partnership

starting from the very beginning,

I'm willing to try anything.

Yeah! Woo!

We're gonna be done in no time.

Yeah, baby. - Woo-hoo!

Well, damn.

Now, Mister...

Anderson is going to be heading this way.

I really need to get my gear dialed in

before I give this information away.

I'm gonna set them how they are.

Before I can call anybody else in,

I just wanna try to find out how big it is.

And then I'll give him a call and be like,

"Hey, man, slide down this way."

And if I run to the west, there is a chance

that I'll be able to throw him off

that there was something right here, right now.

Hoping this will work.

136 miles southwest,

outside Dutch Harbor...

Done with king crab.

Once we get these crab off, I'm ready for it to be done,

but I'm also excited for next year.

I want more king crab, man.

Jack, take over.

...on the Pacific Mariner.

Butterfly Jack, here it is.

End of king crab season, your final delivery.

I made money, crew is safe.

Nothing more you can ask for.

With the last of their red king crab quota on board,

captains Jack Bunnell and Steve "Harley" Davidson

prepare to cash in their 70,000 pounds

for $1 million.

before switching over to the bairdi crab fishery.

Me and Harley, we really leveraged our stuff out

pretty good on this boat, so...

We just gotta keep going, get back out there.

Hey, Oystein, morning.

Hey, good morning. How's it going?

Oh, pretty good.

Just wrapping up king crab here.

It was good. Me and Harley standing here.

Here, I got you on speakerphone.

Yeah, it was a good season.

Oh, sweet.

Let's do it.

That's always good.

They know not to use drugs on this boat,

so it should be fine.

All right. Well, I'll let you guys go.

All right. Thanks, Oystein.

All right. Bye.

We like more money.

I'll strip naked and pee in that cup

if it means more money.

Oh, boy, boy, boy.

Okay. Tie this up.

Yeah. It'll be nice getting these crab off the boat.

Sorry.

Hi. How are you?

Okay. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You're our guy.

We're ready.

I think we're all here now.

Yup? Good.

There's a chance we can get some more quota,

but because of insurance, we gotta have...

Everybody's gotta have a urinalysis,

make sure nobody's done drugs, so...

Those are laws.

Now, I didn't make the laws.

No, you didn't, but you enforce them.

Well, I got... I gotta.

I gotta do what they say. Yup.

My best option is to refuse.

What is that?

You don't think you'll pass?

With marijuana?

You'll pass.

So you're gonna...

You refuse to do the test and then...

That's just an automatic failure.

Well, it's...

I mean, I don't know.

... Call Oystein, dude.

Hey, good morning.

Hey, morning.

We got our crab delivered and we're just...

And it, uh...

On the Pacific Mariner.

Tell him.

All right. Yeah. Bye.

I've done my best on this boat.

It sucks.

All right.

It sucks.

Man. Man, oh, man.

He's just taking some time for himself

and thinking about the decision he has to make.

Me and Canyon have worked together for years.

I don't wanna have to get a new guy on the boat.

I don't wanna have to do it either.

You know, it's not all fun and games

being in the wheelhouse.

It was exciting.

Now, not so much.

210 miles northeast...

These are kind of like a little, uh...

secret sauce that we're spreading around.

Okay, get manly now.

We're not [bleep] around.

on the Northwestern.

I just can't tell the direction they're moving.

You know, the Norway pots, they're just a tool.

They're just a tool for us to try to find out

a little quicker

where there's life on the bottom.

Yeah, I have faith in those pots.

I think they're gonna work.

Very skeptical.

We're setting north, south, east, west.

Hopefully, if there's any crab around,

you know, these little guys are gonna find them.

Trying to gauge this area with the big pots,

I'd need a lot more hours of soak on it

to really get a good gauge.

So using these, it's just that much faster.

Fish faster, bottom line.

Got 'er?

All right. This is the northern area, north pot.

Bring it in.

Nothing in it?

Zero on that one.

All right. We'll go grab that west one.

This is to the western area.

It was 2 miles to the west.

See what's in this one here.

I just need a whiff.

I need a scent. That's all we need, a direction.

What is that, like one crab?

You see one crab in there?

I think there's one.

Well, keep the faith.

We got two more chances.

Okay. We're coming up on our eastern Norwegian pot.

Nothing to speak of?

Well...

that didn't come up with anything.

We got 2 miles.

We'll go grab that southern pot, see what's in it.

We're coming up blank so far.

You're burning so much fuel and you have faith,

you know, you gotta pay for those expenses as well.

If this doesn't come up with crab,

then we're in big trouble.

Oh.

I think I see stuff.

They're crabs?

- Holy [bleep]. - It's leaking crab.

It's leaking.

It's got crab.

That's got some meat in it.

We got riders.

We got crab.

Okay.

We got four.

Plus one. Five.

Five with less than two hours soak.

It's a good sign.

Not bad for a tiny pot.

I didn't think it was even gonna work.

If I get my big pots in there now

and let them soak and do their job,

then we should get a good pick out of it.

Okay, you guys...

We're just gonna lay these pots out to the south.

Cross our fingers.

102 miles southeast...

We got the last pot set.

Goin' over!

...on the Aleutian Lady.

We got all our gear laid out in here.

I got Jake coming this way to meet me

with a whole load of pots,

heading right for the hot spot

we just went through.

I might have to tell him I'm still in prospect mode

and that this area is an area all covered.

I need to stake my claim.

We can't slow down.

Just one mile to the north...

...on the Titan Explorer.

This is where he wants me to go.

I need a place to set.

I don't know the eastern bairdi ground and Rick does.

Is that you guys?

Yeah. Hey, Jake. I got you here.

I'm letting my prospect gear soak a little,

so I thought I'd save you a little time and meet you.

Something's a little weird.

I got my whole stack on.

What are you thinking?

Um...

Hmm.

We...

I mean, it's hard to say, man.

Not a whole lot of action has happened so far.

I mean, it's--

He's hiding something.

Uh... it's kind of spotty.

I am seeing sand fleas, so--

He's [bleep] with me.

Anytime you ask a fisherman how fishing's going

and their first words that come out of their mouth are,

"Uh..."

Yeah, they're making money.

Lots of it.

A bit of sand fleas.

Yeah, not too good so far.

The crab are moving west

and... Well, I think that'll end up being pretty good.

Rick.

He's [bleep] lying to me.

On the Titan Explorer.

The crab are moving west

and... Well, I think that'll end up being pretty good.

He's [bleep] lying to me.

I mean, I would start right where you're at

and go east/west,

and I'll cover down southeast.

All right, man. Well, we'll get them in the water.

Sounds good.

We'll find them and I think

we're gonna hit a homerun, man.

I'll keep you posted on what I see, all right?

Uh-huh.

All right, man. Take care.

All right, later.

It's the captain's job to make sure

your gear is protected and safe.

I don't trust Rick. I think he's onto something.

I could smell the sweat

coming off his lying teeth.

It just sounds like he wants to keep me away.

Like he's pushing for that,

so I know he's on crab.

It's just like fishermen.

Got a full load of gear on.

Here I come, Rick.

Dump it.

I wanna see if he's lying to me or not.

Prospect,

find him, target him.

I ain't Anakin.

I'm Darth Vader.

Woo!

Woo! Good.

Back in Dutch Harbor

on the Pacific Mariner.

All right. All right.

20 hours after a successful offload.

Captain Jack's engineer and friend

of seven years, Canyon Willis,

finally agrees to take

the insurance-mandated drug test.

Should've saw this summer when I had

all of them were derelicts.

It's such a dangerous job already that we work in

and you can't have somebody that's under the influence.

Mister, uh--

Uh-oh.

I don't know. - They didn't shut the door on me

or you or Harley.

What?

All right. Well, time will tell.

198 miles northeast...

Let's go.

...on the Northwestern...

Tide's just ripping right now.

This is the area.

We found five crab in the one tester pot.

We dumped our gear in that southerly direction

because right over that spot,

hoping that we hit something here.

After hunting down a sign of life

with his custom-made gear,

Captain Sig fights 20-foot breakers

to see if his Norwegian pots

scored a legion of crab,

or if there's Norway in hell

he'll tank his extra bairdi.

We're gonna just push through this one.

Today's not gonna be fun, that's for sure.

All right. That's the first one here.

Just be careful of what you're doing.

Okay. Coming up.

Got it.

They're gonna have to really watch this.

Pot starts going under the boat in this weather,

you're gonna snap it just like that.

Here it comes. Let's go, baby.

I'm hoping all of this is worth it.

Not looking too bad.

There's some life in there. That's all right.

Look what I got.

34. 34.

3-4? Yeah.

All right. Well, that'll work.

All right. Standby. Running for the next one.

Roger!

Is everybody in?

Woo!

- Roger. - Roger.

You got it? Yeah, hold on.

35.

3-5.

Beautiful.

They come fallin' down!

That's what we're looking for right there.

33.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's like 100 small ones.

We found a spot we can plow through.

We're getting kind of steady numbers.

Oh, boy.

Watch out.

Uh-oh. Watch out.

Wow.

Whoa.

Big one.

That one hit pretty good.

Oh!

Watch out.

On the Northwestern.

Uh-oh. Watch out.

[bleep].

Whoa.

Big one.

That one hit pretty good.

Oh, oh, right there.

Out of the block!

Oh [bleep].

Yeah.

Oh, boy.

We had a little problem there with the line popping out of the block.

You gotta be quick.

Norm was standing there on the inside of the line. Yeah.

As a 25-foot wave slammed

the starboard side of the vessel,

it ripped the pot line out of the block,

and nearly lassoed Engineer Norman Hansen by the neck.

But Clark's quick reaction to rethread the block

saved the pot and 4,000 bucks.

It just happens when you're in bad seas like this,

you're rolling so much.

All I gotta say is I got one of the best crews in the fleet

and not everybody could get through nights like this.

There we go.

Again.

Yeah.

Now, I gotta play it string by string

and then hopefully we'll get what we need.

These little Norwegian pots actually did the job here.

In Dutch Harbor on the Pacific Mariner.

I hate crew, it's [bleep] absolute worst part about this job.

I mean, I haven't been a perfect damn deckhand.

I'll tell you that right now, but...

It'll be all right.

Let's go ahead... Go ahead and tell him.

I don't like the decision,

but I'll go down there and let him know.

There you go.

All right, man.

Boat's gotta keep moving.

It's a million dollar operation.

I gotta keep moving forward.

We'll find somebody.

We've decided that Canyon cannot go fishing with us.

It's tough.

You know, Canyon's one of my best friends

and I might have disagreed with the decision,

but I also understand the decision.

But the boat has to continue to fish and make money.

A, uh, reality check, I guess.

You have to make decisions for the business

and the well-being for the boat and everybody on it.

There we are. Word's out, man.

There's a job available. Here they come.

New plan is to get a new guy,

get him on the boat.

I'm not gonna be nice to him.

150 miles northeast.

All right, Rick...

Let's see what you're selling here.

...on the Titan Explorer.

Rick told me he wasn't on anything.

Well, I'm about to find out.

Everything about his conversation's fishy.

Yeah!

yeah.

Yeah!

Bada-boom, big kids!

Hold it down, hold it this way, down.

Holy [bleep] dude.

Yeah, baby.

53 fathoms,

bottom is beautiful.

It's too bad I have to give this credit to Rick.

I mean, we're partners

and he won't even give me any information on the crab.

Nice.

I caught you.

He's been getting fat

while everybody's starving on the streets.

Look at that. Look at that.

It's my turn.

Triple it, hold on.

Oh, yeah!

That's a crab pot, dude.

This is a stupid amount of crab.

Yeah. Yup.

All right, guys.

I've seen enough.

They're moving west.

I'm gonna set these pots so close together

to the west, it's gonna feel like a sardine.

Pay his ass back.

Throw it over.

You reap what you sow, Ricky.

You brought this on yourself.

Two miles east.

Not good.

Crab count 2-8, 28.

...on the Aleutian Lady.

Numbers are dropping off going to the east.

I think I need to slide these

to the west a little bit.

That way I can get it right on the meat.

If I gap 'em out at only four-tenths of a mile,

I can...

Why is there a freaking boat

right on the edge of my gear?

Hey, Titan Explorer,

Aleutian Lady, you got me on here?

Hey, Jake, you got me on here? It's Rick.

Titan Explorer.

What are you guys doing over there?

Hello?

Pooping in Rick's pumpkin patch.

He's dodging me.

Hey, guys, keep it on the rack.

He might have boxed us in

and we can't go any farther.

Well, Luca, it's dark

because the Bering Sea is facing away from the sun.

Spinning is how the block reels it in.

It is dangerous.

That's the pot.

That sound is the air throttles.

And it's taking so long to throw

because, well, that's just how it is.

I love you, son.

I love you.

Oh, it's my pleasure.

On the Aleutian Lady.

This is the western end of my gear.

I don't see the Titan Explorer.

Well, maybe he was just passing through.

All right, guys, let's get ready to set.

We'll be slinging these off fast.

Roger.

I'm just getting by the end of my string

running out and...

yeah, there's a big old T

on the top of that freaking diver.

That's the Titan.

Are you serious?

There's no way I could fit a pot in here.

He might have just shut us down.

Hey, Rick.

You're all over my [bleep] Jake.

Oh, yeah. Well, you [bleep] lied to me. You...

I know what you're on, dude.

You know.

You're on twos with some threes.

You're on a steady 200 average.

This is part of the whole darn set, look at that.

I wanted to make sure I had all my gear

where I wanted it

before I call anybody else in.

Sometimes you just gotta play the game and try to throw

everybody off, man, I wanna get done quick.

My wife's bugging me for money, man.

Yeah, well...

I gotta think about my family, you know?

Yeah, I don't... I don't [bleep] blame you.

I really don't.

But it doesn't mean I ain't gonna come

and [bleep] set you down to feed mine.

Woo! Look at that crab move.

Yeah, baby. Woo-hoo!

Lie to me all you want.

I'll take 150 pots

with 200 crabs all day.

We'll call it good.

All is fair in love and fishing.

You know...

it pisses me off that I wasn't quick enough.

But, Jake, uh,

I mean that is a veteran move.

Yeah, well, they're still coming up loaded with crab.

Woo-hoo!

We probably have at least

300 pots between us.

You might as well put 'em to good use.

Just zero in on 'em together.

All right, so which side are you gonna take, east or west?

I'll take the west side and I'll meet you in the middle.

Okay? I'll set north/south.

All right, roger.

Let's hammer this and lock this bottom down.

It's ours now.

Roger.

All right, see you, Rick.

All right, man. Peace out.

Yeah, there we go. There we go.

Damn.

That's a good pot, man.

This is just like when you're playing chess,

you're not just trying to play the game

with tracking crab,

you're also playing the game with the fleet.

I gotta give it to Jake.

He beat me to it.

I mean, fair and square,

he locked us in.

You know, there's still crab, though.

And...

there's a good chance we could keep them here

long enough to wrap up our trip.

I think we are gonna be in a good spot.

Woo!

Yeah.

Good. We're getting a good pick out of this.

Whoa. Woo!

Yeah!

So I'm gonna keep those Norwegian

prospect pots with me.

It's always nice to have a little ace up your sleeve.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

You're a believer now, Clark?

Big numbers. Oh, I am.

I won't say I told you so.

But I told him so.

There you go.

Hey, how's it going?

We're ready, dude.

Hell yeah. Good to see you, man.

- You, too. - Oh, yeah.

We lost a solid crew member, but you, you'll fit in.

Oh, yeah, we'll get... We'll get her taken care of, I'm sure.

- Yeah. - Been here before.

Yeah, I know.

Thanks for coming but... Yeah, no problem.

Yeah.

He's family, you know, so you always...

You always count on your family.

Well, it looks like Harley, uh,

was able to scrounge you on up.

We worked with him on the bairdi last year.

A fine hand.

Uh, he'll fit right in.

15:30 departure.

Perfect.

I wanna get this caught,

put it away, and go home.

There's a lot at stake here.

Family's quota. My family's money.

We'll focus on catching crab.