Deadliest Catch questions?

Question

1) when they throw crab back that are too small they just pitch them over the rail...does that kill the crab?
2) what is up with all those birds...

Colette Lala:
When I read your reason for the birds. I heard Nigel the pelican from Finding Nemo in my head say "fish gotta swim, birds gotta eat" LOL

Answer 1

I don't think it kills them and the birds know where to get a good meal,lol

Answer 2

I think that the crabs shell is strong enough to survive being thrown overboard.

I adore this show, but it kills me when they're tallying up the final counts and all the 200 lb men are stomping all over the live crabs in the hold. The crabs have to remain alive to be counted right? If they can survive some burly fishermen stomping on them, I'd think the smaller ones could survive a little throw overboard.

Birds: Well, they eat the fish that surface I would think. I've never been to the Bering Sea, but birds are all over the place in the Pacific and Atlantic.

Just for the record, Sig became my favorite when he went on the Daily Show with John Stewart. The other captain with the earring who cries when the people die is awesome as well. How funny is his son (the lightweight - I think his name is Josh, not the other bratty a**hole)? That kid is pure personality. I adore him!

Blake is a pu**y. Ugh I can't stand him! He used to be good looking, but every show he gets uglier and cockier and more ignorant.

Answer 3

No it does not kill them, if it did it would be against the law to do so. The birds always follow boats, and probably the old bait is thrown back to the ocean, so the birds have larned this and wait for the meal!

Answer 4

the throw back the female crabs and crabs too small. and no it does not kill the crabs when they throw them back over the rail, and its nature and water where the birds find their food, so there are going to be a lot of birds

Answer 5

It kills the little crabs and then the birds eat their floating corpses.