Fishing Q&A - I want to get a job on those fishing boats in the Bering Sea?

I want to get a job on those fishing boats in the Bering Sea?

I can't get enough of watching the worlds most dangerous job:working on a deep sea fishing boat catching the AK King crab and cod. Can someone tell me how I can apply I saw that one of the skippers at the end of the voyage docked in Seattle. Email me with tips and or advice...and yes I know lots of people die in this job mostly by drowning but I still want to do it.

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just go up their and tell him you want to work for him they start you out as a crab grabber... which means you get dropped to the bottom of the bearing sea and you have to grab at least 3 crabs before you drown... if you succeed then you can be a trap guy or a cook for a few seasons till you learn the ropes
you don't go from burger king to a crab boat on the bering sea..........there is too much money at stake.............. first you have to get up there and start working scraping hulls, work in a cannery or something of the like.......... if at that point your work ethic is that of you can work fast under those conditions, you will advance... ..your reputation will carry you on......................
It doesn't work that way. You have to actually go there, a lot of boats are from the Washington and Oregon area, not Alaska like some think. They don't hire people they don't know, most are related or are friends they've grown up with. You don't really think you'd be first in line when they're making that kind of money, dangerous or not. I know two that have fathers on the boats, they own them and they wouldn't want to work them, it isn't worth it. They made their money and, left. Most do this, like the "ice road truckers" they make their money and leave. My grandson went to Iraq as a civilian worker, an electrician, he makes $125,000.00 a year, this is his third year, he's quitting after this year, with bonuses he's made his first half million and is going into business for him self.
First you get to Washington State. You get a job on a local crabber as a baiter. you make 1/4 crew share, after one year you can go back. With experience you get to be a masterbaiter @ 1/2 crew share. Work your way up from there
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well hello there i was at sea for seven years crabbing before i even had the balls to try the bering sea i think u are watching to much tv i would call my self a good fisherman i did 2 seasons as a green horn in the bering sea on 2 diffrent boats of course second season share went up but not a lot if u think u can go from land locked to a crab boat up i the bering sea i am afraid u need to wake up as a green horn u do not earn 40000 dollars like the rest of the crew so stop dreaming and secondly yes it is a very dangerous job and i do not think coming form bk to the bering for 4 days is going to work for u but good luck