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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  • Dr Hung Low

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

    • http://www.makeyourownpheromones.com michael

      STDs are bitch bro

      • hanyucha

        “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.

        • mr. weiner

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

          • hanyucha

            “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.

          • http://www.proxyforchina.com/ Rod

            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?

          • mr. weiner

            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.

  • blues

    Picture 3: “Crab angels!”

  • Chris N.

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

    • Rick in China

      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.

      • Irvin

        Reminds me of the movie sanctum. If anyone still wanna go do this job they should watch titanic again.

  • jeffli

    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.

  • Bruce Tutty

    我笑什么:

    A model of exchanging your life for money.

    *LIKE*

  • Brett Hunan

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

    • mr. weiner

      They might use him as bait.

      • Interested

        Above is white trashmen’s dream or delusion. Check this.

        http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/02/16/the-rise-of-intermarriage/8/

        In your dream, you are still superior. Ignorance is indeed bliss.

        一群弱智

        • mr. wiener

          Wasn’t so much reflecting on Chinese as inferior to whites. More like wondering if any of the netizins above [or any of we geeks] could cut it doing that work. Jobs like oil rigs and the like take a lot of work. Sorry if you though I was being boorishly racist

        • moop

          oh look, another han racist on chinasmack, how quaint

        • donscarletti

          Not sure how it fits, but the most interesting thing is that this chart shows that both white men and white women top the earning scale for respective genders, but they both have to marry Asians first, otherwise they are extremely mediocre.

          Oh well, I got a Chinese girlfriend, sister has a Singaporean boyfriend, I figure the family will do OK this generation.

        • donscarletti

          Oh, by the way, I think you mean to sign your post “一个弱智”, given 群 is a collective noun and there is only one of you.

          • Interested

            It is a statement.

          • moop

            yes, but let us not forget how truly stupid that “statement” was

        • mr. wiener

          Thanks for the stats interested, very interesting , but what exactly does it have to do with my perceived racism? Do you mean an asian guy would be able to get a job on one of those crab boats if he fronts up in Dutch harbor and tells the captain on the Time Bandit, “I’m married to a white chick”?…..He definitely might wind up as bait.

  • jeffli

    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!

  • http://www.proxyforchina.com/ Rod

    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?

    • Patrick

      I don’t think that’s over the water, looks like land. Notice the tree off to the side. Other than that – no idea.

    • Higgs.Boson

      Just rain pouring from a arcus cloud.

    • Rick in China

      It’s absolutely not related to the rest of the bunch. It’s a well known photo that was entered in National Geographic’s 2010 photography contest. It’s a supercell thunderstorm over MONTANA, not even near the ocean or any crabs.

  • deputamadre

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

  • http://www.matthewsawtell.com Matthew A. Sawtell

    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

  • lonetrey

    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.

    • Justin

      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.

  • Appalled@everything

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

  • andywattbulb

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

    • Rick in China

      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”…

  • SylvianDark

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

    Liberal logic fail.

    • Young Man

      Then why are all the farms full o’ Mexicans?

      Because they work for next to nothing.

      Free Market Fail

      • B-real

        white man always played that dating back to the biblical days, but the chinese man plays it better today
        communism markets fails at an exponential rate

  • Xiongmao

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

    Best one.

    • Interested

      It applies to the west too. High risk jobs belongs to working class.

  • typingfromwork

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

  • 大陸流氓

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

  • dim mak

    Can crabs really pinch off a finger?

    Damn nature, U SCARY

    • ralphrepo

      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.

    • Someone

      Not all of them, but certainly many of them can.

      Lobsters too can take your finger off, why do you think they’ve got little cute rubber bands around them?

      As for crab-fishing, my brother is a fisherman in the Norwegian sea and he’s earned approx. 80k for 4 months of work. And yet I don’t envy him that money at all: He didn’t exactly get it for free.

  • Locus

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

  • Xiongmao

    Spend a few bucks on KONY 2012.

  • ralphrepo

    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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