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Edgar Hansen, Page 3
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 Jump to a Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | monkeys in motion: How did you feel when you first found out that you were going to be filmed for a TV show? Did you think the show would become as popular as it is? This is me and my sons' favorite show, we haven't missed one episode and my sons think you are the greatest. Thanks for sharing your fishing with us! Edgar Hansen: Thank your boys for me, and tell them hi! When we first heard we were going to be filmed, I don't think any of us liked the idea. We were just regular guys, and not used to having cameras stuffed in our face. But, I think it took a season before we started to get comfortable with the whole thing. We're still not used to it, but after hearing things like what you said from your boys, it makes it all worth it. Rusty Coleman: Do you ever eat any King Crab while on the boat? Edgar Hansen: Of course we do, just not as often as you would think. Literally, you're in such a zone that you forget you have the capability of cooking and eating this wonderful product. Besides that, we're just too damned tired. Michelle: How often do you have to shop for the crew, and what are the "have to haves"? Edgar Hansen: We usually shop in Seattle and have everything shipped up. For one season, one three month period, we can spend anywhere from $10,000 to $15,000 in food. Must haves would be coffee, cigarettes, and chocolate and/or sugar. Michelle: Do you chose this way of life, or does it just choose you? Edgar Hansen: It was forced child labor. I basically didn't finish high school because of fishing. I wanted to go back, but my dad looked at me and said, "What do you want to be? You want to be a dummy? Go fishing." Because back then, 18-19 years old we were making over $100,000 a year. So, eliminate the middle man, which would be college, and go straight to the high paying job. dsquared2008: If you weren't fishing, what would you be doing with your life? What were your aspirations in high school? Edgar Hansen: I was getting pretty good at guitar. If I hadn't been in a band, I probably would have been a finish carpenter. trumpet NY guy: Does the crew ever get ahead of preventative maintenance? I know it makes the show interesting to have struggles, but it seems like blown bearings on pulleys would be a simple check? Edgar Hansen: You know, it doesn't matter how much maintenance you put into a boat or how many hundreds of thousands of dollars you can spend in the ship yard to fix the boat, there is always something that can and will go wrong at any time. Wear and tear is just a big part of it, something you learn to accept. Even new parts break sometimes. So, expect the unexpected. ducky: You looked really happy to be on the Martha Stewart show...are you a big fan? Edgar Hansen: Is this Martha?? My wife is a fan, and yes I have seen the show. By force. Am I a huge fan? No, I would rather be watching This Old House. Or Discovery Channel! crab fan: What is the most unusual thing you have hauled aboard while crab fishing? Edgar Hansen: A mermaid! The most unusual thing would be a microwave and a bicycle. It was a prank pulled on us by somebody else because of Sig's paranoia about bad bait. LUD: What is the total square feet of your holding tanks on the Northwestern? Edgar Hansen: Now you're getting technical, that's not my job. But I do know how much crab we pack - 218,000 pounds of Snow Crab. I know, because I put them in there one by one. ponamus: Hey Edgar - what's your favorite meal to prepare on the boat? Edgar Hansen: Well, the best meal - there's two. One is steak and shrimp. And that only means that we're going in loaded. That's the meal when we're full and headed to town. The other one would be crab-stuffed chicken breast in Bearnaise sauce. lillygrl305: Can you give us a recipe you've cooked on board? Edgar Hansen: Salted cod and potatoes with an onion sauce. Salt the cod for three hours, boil in water for three hours. Enjoy! whitney: How many camera people are on the boat with you and the crew? Edgar Hansen: There is two cameramen, one is in a sense a producer, and he's more of the wheelhouse camera guy. Eric Lange and Yoshi Stone were our camera crew for King Crab and Opilio. And a couple of the best camera guys/human beings I have ever met. But they're all spectacular people. They have to be just as crazy as we are to be out there. Which makes me like them even more. Go Team Go! Headin 2 Alaska: What is the biggest misconception about fishing that most people seem to have? Edgar Hansen: Good question! Misconceptions...about fishing in general, about the hours we work and the fact that anybody can go up there and try to get a job. That is really hard to do these days, because people who have jobs are keeping them. Also, the weather on the show, you will never capture the real feeling of that bad weather on camera as you would in real life. So, the cameras do not do it justice. Because it's literally twice as bad as what you're seeing on your TV screen. They need to make scratch 'n sniff TVs! Adriana: What are your duties as a deck boss versus a deck hand? Edgar Hansen: Baby-sit, baby-sit, baby-sit! And also, I'm the go-to guy. A deck boss should know anything and everything about the deck. When there's chaos, he's the guy who should be able to simmer the situation down or quickly fix anything that needs to be fixed. muzz: How is the quota figured for each boat? Edgar Hansen: They went by our past fishing history. From those numbers of our catch history they gave each boat its own quota. So, out of the main quota, they come up with for the whole season, each boat is allowed to catch his share from that quota. But we can also lease crab from other boats and fish their crab as well to make more money. We're just up there longer. addicted 2 This Show: My husband is a carpenter who has now decided he wants to be a crab fisherman. How do I talk him out of it? And he's 38. Help me Edgar! Edgar Hansen: Give me your address and I will come slap some sense into him! With a tack hammer! |
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