Crab Fishing, 10,000 USD a Week, Chinese Netizen Reactions

A crab catcher holdin up two large crabs.

From KDS:

Catch crabs, 10,000 USD a week, anyone want to go?

Crab fishermen on a pile of crabs.

A crab fisherman lying on a hold full of crabs.

Catching crabs.

A crab fisherman missing a finger.

High waves beside a crab fishing boat.

Ice covered crab fishing boat.

Note: The last image was posted by another netizen, not the original poster.

Comments from KDS:

Lucifer:

High-risk profession, you could have your JJ pinched off if you’re not careful. emoticon

marshield:

Not sure how it is more dangerous than coal mining, but it’s 50x the return.

Vash:

I think this was on Discovery before.
Top 3 high-risk, high-income professions.

bankban:

I especially like to eat crab, fuck, catch and eat, it’d be so fresh!!!

spcard1:

Essentially all single men.
Half the year out at sea.
The next half eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling.

XY+:

What more, look at the ice on that boat, this isn’t work that any ordinary person can do.

玉无灵:

Their work is skilled work, you need skill and courage, and ultimately luck as well.

光头佬:

[I] want to go do it, just there isn’t a channel [to get into the profession]. If they were to look for people in this country, a bunch of people would go do it, believe it or not.

僧劲并:

Why do I feel that in the Heavenly Kingdom the high risk professions don’t necessarily have high income?

五座小土匪:

I want to go [do that job]. I’m brave, healthy, don’t get seasick, learn quickly, and the key is that so far my luck hasn’t been bad. emoticon

猪肉铺:

emoticon Fuck, no safety measures.

肥羊羊:

The photographs are all taken when the weather is calm~
If it were really nasty weather, could they have taken the photos?
After 2 days on the boat, many of the TF here would already be dehydrated from vomiting,
and you talk about working?

委座:

Work a year and if you’re not dead you can buy a house.

简单到复杂:

The competition in this profession is very high, and the key still lies in the captain’s experience.
High risk professions have high return, but looking at the high risk professions in China, they truly cannot compare to those outside/abroad.

押司:

Work that all red-blooded men year to do. emoticon

aeesgi:

Better make your money before the YP get involved.
If this were opened to China’s fishing boats, all [the crabs] would be gone within a season.

jaguaress:

This work is amongst the highest paid professions in America. Of course, the mortality rate is also high.

Ordinary people couldn’t do it at all, subjectively unable to deal with that kind of hardship, objectively physically unable.

It’s seasonal, only two months every year.

再见咖啡:

Looks a little like a European-American blockbuster movie.

洪秀全:

This kind of high risk isn’t comparable to ordinary high-risk. For example, send an ordinary person to Shanxi to mine coal and after 5 years of mining they may have serious illness and disability but he wouldn’t necessarily be dead. Send an ordinary person to go catch crabs however, I guarantee that the first time he goes out, he won’t be coming back.

huangjw:

If they could hire Chinese people, 10,000 would definitely become 1000.

游园戏猴:

Add another 0 to the end and I’ll go. My life is still valuable. emoticon

被逼开小号:

If YP coal miners were given the chance to go, I guarantee all of them would rush over there. It’s still life-risking, but one month would be enough for the rest of their lives. emoticon

食利者:

Then the 5 mao will accuse the American imperialists of having ulterior motives, giving money to have our countrymen risk their lives, while they hide and eat delicious food. emoticon

JUNJUN:

Looks quite cold. If I go, I’d have to bring heating pads/patches, sticking them all over my body the moment work begins. emoticon

我笑什么:

A model of exchanging your life for money.

我老来赛:

According to the quality of our countrymen’s bodies, this kind of environment = suicide.

阿布扎比:

An extremely challenging occupation, one I yearn for. emoticon

Do you have a dangerous profession? What do you do? What dangers do you face?

A crab fisherman hugs a fish.

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  1. I have crabs but not of this kind, do I still get $10,000 a week?

    • STDs are bitch bro

      • “Teacher, have you ever eaten Hangzhou Hairy Crab?”

        “No, but maybe your mum could introduce me.”

        I always thought it was a euphemism for hairy pussy, but turns out you wouldn’t want to put your JJ in that Hangzhou speciality, or you might come out a bit crabby.

        • I think you might have mistaken that for the “bearded clam”, but stay away from the “chocolate starfish” :P

          • “chocolate starfish” sounds like a Shanghai specialty. On a side note, Hangzhou also has the imaginatively named Pink Banana gay bar near the main square.

          • I never really understood that reference…what is a chocolate starfish… a butthole?

            Then why the hell would Limp Bizkit name their album after a butthole?

          • It is indeed a butthole.
            They probably named their album after such for the same reason that “Steely Dan” named themselves after a vibrator. I.E It’s a rude in-joke.
            There have been many other albums or band names that have been based on such. “Californication” by the Red hot Chili Peppers for example. The list goes on. I would defer to the encyclopedic knowledge of Comrade Kedafu for more of the like.

  2. Picture 3: “Crab angels!”

  3. $10,000 per week for all the crew on the boat? That really good for a blue-collar job.

    • It’s really, really hard work – they pay well because the guys spend weeks on the boats at a time and work pretty much constantly, and it’s quite dangerous – easy to lose a limb/digits, catch a bad rope or hook depending what you’re doing, get f’d up by infections and having nothing but first-aid on hand for up to days before you can be hospitalized, not as easy as moving a forklift around a bunch of crates in a warehouse. Of course it pays well, or nobody would spend weeks away from civilization working all day to do it.

  4. There must be crabs on the sofa today!

    Hey the Chinese in kunshan have it tough too you know! every October running around the back lawns of every paint factory near Yangcheng lake catching little hairy crabs.

    Yeah thats testosterone work! BTW tis little criitter can be found on the Thames river in England as is considered a plague pest!

    nope I’ll stick with the big crabs and happy those men get paid well for them.

  5. 我笑什么:

    A model of exchanging your life for money.

    *LIKE*

  6. If the Chinese got into this the crew wouldn’t make $10,000 in a year.

  7. 就是男人! 就是螃蟹!就是生活, 祝你发财! For you smackies – just men just crabs,just the life! just the riches!
    makes poncing around a lake killing toothless tigers and bears for bile look quite……..quite how you say ……..errrr

    Well you won’t catch me skipping around the “Water Margin” I might get bitten by a hairy crab, or my GF haha!

  8. Can anyone tell me what that last pic is? It looks like the water is going INTO the clouds–or is it some kind of hurricane/tornado/vortex? Optical illusion?

  9. Confucius say, “Man who fish in other mans well often catch crabs”

  10. Kinda of surprised that any of the clips from “Deadliest Catch” have not made the rounds in P.R. China:

    http://www.discoverychannel.ca/Showpage.aspx?sid=13454

    Then again… if the folks saw the Lobster business…

    http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/lobster-wars/lobster-wars.html

  11. Dam, that’s crazy! 10k for a week of work? But then again, trying to work that hard weeks upon weeks upon weeks really might kill me.

    • Well they only work so many months out of the year. Those months are probably living hell and cold as shit. Their yearly pay probably doesn’t top out at very high I would imagine relative to the risks they have to take every time they go out. So all in all, I’ll take my 9 to 5 desk job that pays 40,000 a year and spend most of my time in an air-conditioned office reading books or playing video games on the clock.

  12. Appalled@everything

    The image of the frozen deck is amazing. How about that for harsh work conditions.

  13. Such a waste. There’s not much meat on a crab anyway.

    • Are you saying crab is not an appropriate substance for human consumption?

      I’d say the only waste here is your stupid comment, “not much meat on a crab”…

  14. Yeah, white people won’t work on farms. They only do comfortable jobs.

    Liberal logic fail.

  15. “Why do I feel that in the Heavenly Kingdom the high risk professions don’t necessarily have high income?”

    Best one.

  16. Fuck that’s some nice pay. Apparently it’s the most dangerous job in the world- still, 10k a week? Sign me up!

  17. This is really impressive, man’s profession, looks like fighting on the underwater battlefield.

  18. Can crabs really pinch off a finger?

    Damn nature, U SCARY

    • Most of the injuries that occur on these boats have more to do with accidents involving lines, hooks, wires, or moving equipment. Statistically, the accident rate is one of the highest, making it one of the most dangerous professions in the US; approximately one worker dies every week on average.

  19. I am just so sick of reading China being called the “Heavenly Kingdom”… For God’s sake, what’s heavenly about China?

  20. Spend a few bucks on KONY 2012.

  21. Moot discussion, as Alaskan King Crabs are caught mostly in US territorial waters; ie. Chinese boats cannot fish there. The only major competition for US caught crabs are from Russia.

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