Reflection

"Let’s watch Deadliest Catch" is the fraise that my little brother Trenton would frequently state as he entered my front door. It was those days that I remember. That is the reason that I wanted to learn a little more and have a deeper understanding of the business and the type of work that it takes to run an efficient crab boat. During my research I learned about environmental issues that are affecting the crabbing industry. This project is very different and unique from any other project that I have ever done before. Creating the blog was very interesting and fun. Designing my on blog was creative and made me want to bet more involved in my project because in was an interesting take on a research project.
Some things that I have learned about and that are very interesting are the climate of the sea, controversy between the people in the industry, what crabbing is and how it got started and a poll on what people thought of the product, crab.
Threw all of my research and time spent learning and understanding what my topic truly is I have learned a lot. I have learned that due to climate change the Bering Sea is warming up and the ice isn't freezing over. This may seam like a good thing but it isn't, not for the crabs any way. The crabs need the frozen ice so that they can reproduce in the winter time. Much like a den the ice freezes over protecting the crabs and providing the perfect temperature for the eggs to hatch and grow. If the temperature continues to raise the reproduction rate will decrees. Also in the controversy of crabbing some people feel that working for that short amount of time that hard isn't right. People say that it is unethical while others like Jake Harris feel that it is the best way to earn a living. Crabbing has been an age old tradition that Jake is now fallowing. Like his father and father before him Jake is a crabber. Although there are advancements in the industry crabbing is fairly similar to what is was twenty years a go when the crab bust hit sending many boats out of business, and extremely different from 100 years ago when it all got started. Now crab boats use winches steal traps enormous holding tanks and run nearly 24 hours and straight into the next.
I have learned that to be a crabber you have to be strong willed, determined and ruthless in the hunt to catch the most crab. I have a deeper appreciation for these hard working men and am exited to continue learning about them. But I wonder; what do these men do in the off season?