![]() "Some boats loaded too many crab pots and capsized. ![]() "The gun went off and everyone scrambled," Poulsen said. ![]() The industry, which was made famous by the Discovery show "Deadliest Catch," no longer engages in "fishing derbies" where fishermen rush to fill their quotas in a few scant days. Thanks to new government rules, there has been only one death in the Alaskan crab fishery in the past six years - a significant improvement from the 1990s which saw an average of 7.3 deaths a year, according to Edward Poulsen, director of the Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers.
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