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>> you have a fight in town, but everybody saves each other on the water. >> larry: did you ever want to throw anyone overboard? >> quite a few. >> larry: do you eat crabs, keith? >> absolutely. i have a freezer full of the stuff. people ask do you get sick of it. it is not like we are eating crab every night. >> larry: all of you do? >> any shell fish, man, i like it. >> larry: do you guys like stone crabs? >> yeah. >> larry: they have seasons in florida, stone crab season. >> king crab is still the best. >> larry: how many can you bring in in a haul, on a great day? >> it depends on the size...

Instincts and you just kind of read the way the crab are moving, and it just takes -- there's only 70 of us in the world. >> larry: only 70. >> only 70 crab fishermen in the world. >> larry: keith, do you ever feel like you're killing something that's living? >> no. the fisheries in alaska are some of the most regulated fisheries in the planet. the crab stocks are healthy. they're doing really well. and we take just a minute portion of the male biomass off the ground. at the end of the day, we don't kill them, we give them to the processors, they kill them. >> larry: they control it well, then...

He was a big character on the show. >> larry: you ever fish with his brother and kids, keith? >> no, i haven't. never had the opportunity to fish with the boys. >> larry: are there any female captains? >> back in the '80s we had a gal that ran a boat for a while. what was her name? >> toni. >> tony, yeah. and i think she had some female crew members. usually the gals that do work on deck aren't -- they're pretty stout. >> larry: by the way, phil and his sons were guests last year. we asked him about the art of crab fishing. watch. why do you like crab fishing? other than the monetary rewards. ...

>> larry: it's doing well? >> everybody wants a sustainable fishery. i want a fishery for the next generation and thereafter. keith's right, i mean, politically, the fishermen join in. wer with the feds. it's all regulated. we used to take 45% of the mills off the ground now we're taking only 15% of the males off the ground. we're so conservative, it's -- >> 15% of the four-inch males off the ground. >> larry: how do you know the male from the female? >> the female snow crab is about that big. the male snow crab gets to be about this big. the shell itself. >> he started looking. >> larry: an i...

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