- 5/29/2025
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00:00What a lovely morning.
00:09Pull back time.
00:10Soon it's going to come dark.
00:11The eclipse is about to start.
00:12I've never ever seen one before.
00:13Oh my god.
00:14I'm scared guys.
00:15I'm scared.
00:16Yeah let it go.
00:17It's going to be 345 years before we're going to see the sun.
00:18I'm scared.
00:19I'm scared.
00:20I'm scared.
00:21I'm scared.
00:22I'm scared.
00:23I'm scared.
00:24I'm scared.
00:25I'm scared.
00:26I'm scared.
00:27I'm scared.
00:28I'm scared.
00:29It's going to be 345 years before an eclipse passes over the island like today.
00:32We're at 70%.
00:3415 miles.
00:35There she is.
00:363 minutes left.
00:37Oh yeah she's happening.
00:39Wow.
00:40Wow.
00:41Wow.
00:42I don't even know how to describe it.
00:50You're in complete daylight and then suddenly it goes into this darkness
01:11Everything comes to a standstill
01:13nothing matters because
01:15There's this amazing
01:18Natural thing that's happening. I don't even know how to describe it something that's way bigger than us
01:26the emotional experience
01:28rather than a physical
01:30Even though we are this tiny little dot in the middle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence
01:36It's like we were sharing this moment with other places on the planet
01:41I'm so glad we were out here for that
01:44It feels like you're gonna be in the dark, but then suddenly the light comes back
01:51Wow, it's like a rebirth
01:54Like life continues
01:56Like our village will continue the islands will continue
02:12We
02:16Need a hundred bags for sure
02:187 a.m.
02:20Sunday morning on the Magdalen Islands
02:23Captain Adam Clark and his crew have been grinding
02:28For hours, I kind of think the crab must come from the north side of Anacostia because the water depth the way it is
02:35Adams first crab trip is a disaster
02:38Now he's gearing up for round two
02:42I hope it's better than the last one. I'm hoping hoping hoping hoping
02:53Last week Oh the crab were nowhere to be found
02:58The captain conscious 2,400 pounds when he needed 10,000 to cover his costs
03:05Hey, no good
03:09Before heading out Adam makes a quick stop at his workshop in Old Harry. Yes, you'll condition your hair
03:16His childhood friend Stephen Clark needs help prepping gear for his own trip
03:22Roberts
03:24I'm taking two of them last year Adam bet big on the Atlantic snow crab fishery
03:30He bought Stephen's permit and is still waiting for it to pay off
03:34Yeah, so anyway, my trip wasn't very good
03:37The tide was going very strong when we were down there
03:40So it might be a little early for for the zone there and the depth of water
03:45I'm in so I'm sure there's a lot of crab up the North Shore, but I don't know why there's nothing in these ones
03:53No clue I
03:56Remember the other year we sailed the extra 50 miles there to the North Shore. We got three crab
04:0350 miles 28 traps three crab. We just missed everything that time
04:09But this trip I figure you're gonna do a lot better. Yeah. Well, anyways, I got some shit to do so
04:19I'm not giving up until I catch my crab
04:25To improve his odds Adam is bringing everything he's got we'll take everything maybe about the bottom one
04:34Oh
04:36Help uncle Adam
04:41Adams brother Kevin is helping load up
04:50Adam and Kevin they're my two younger brothers
04:54Growing up Adam took Kevin everywhere like a little sidekick and they're still a bit like that
05:01Adam aside, then you'll put him on after a bet. He's pretty much the one that taught me everything. So
05:10Big brother is adding 25 traps to max out his head at 100, but more gear means longer days
05:24I keep telling myself next trip will be better. You just got to keep yourself positive
05:28It's the middle of the night the wind is biting the crew is ready
05:36My hands are so cold
05:40As Adam heads out
05:43Stephen Clark's day is just getting started the benefit is
05:48a
05:50chance to win a
05:52T-shirt
05:54Grab a meal. It was a freezer
05:56Tasia's drawings on my crab meals
06:00She likes that spice it up for us a little I guess kind of like a little sense of humor
06:06But Stephen's house
06:08Is empty?
06:10But he's sincere. He's pretty late sleeper. So I have to kind of teach him how to be a little bit of a
06:15But Stephen's house
06:17Is empty?
06:19But he's sincere. He's pretty late sleeper. So I have to kind of tiptoe so don't wake him up last year
06:24He moved his fiance and seven-year-old son to Prince Edward Island
06:29But when fishing season hits
06:32Stephen comes back to old Harry
06:34alone
06:36Pretty boring actually when you're here by yourself
06:41Load the truck head to the war
06:45My
06:56Father calling now
06:58He's setting crab traps out of Surrey Prince Edward Island today
07:01His father moved off the islands too and now fish is a different shoreline
07:07Hello
07:10Oh
07:12Make a file that says crab 2024
07:16Stephen's the last of generations still working these waters, but the captain isn't spending too much time thinking about the family's legacy
07:23met my grandfather and stuff on my mother's side, but other than that like I don't know how far back the
07:29family tree goes buddy go up to
07:33Layers up on the top screen like I'm not I'm just gonna go read a bunch of headstones. I don't care for it that much
07:39I'll see my turn there soon enough. I imagine
07:43Stephen's counting on a good season
07:47Last year crab prices crashed
07:51And took his business to the brink crab was 225 a pound
07:55We paid a pile of money for licenses and then it just crashed. So it was pretty tough
08:02Financially everything was just borderline barely covered itself
08:07The goal this year is just to get me caught back up from last year really
08:12Oh, yeah, right away, baby right away
08:17Satan belts
08:19He's got one hundred and seventy thousand pounds of crab to catch a grueling haul and only one way to do it
08:27trap by trap
08:28crab by crab
08:32170,000 pounds a lot of traps to pick up dump back get a lot of crab to pull through
08:39The captain's plotting a three-day trip if things go to plan he'll land a quarter of his quota
08:45But to do that, he needs his crew firing on all cylinders
08:54Out here crew his family it's gonna work you gotta work well together
08:59Got to get along
09:11But the captain's fishing family isn't a hundred percent this morning
09:23Deccan Leo is paying the price for a night out
09:28Yeah
09:40Big boys gonna have to be a big boy
09:49I need five
09:52On
09:56Steven's boat, there's no sympathy for hangovers
09:59You get drunk on Saturday windy Monday
10:03You'll be sick on one day
10:06Leah
10:07You're gonna lay the bunk down and rest you're done for the day
10:12Shorter man the captain has to pick up the slack
10:17Help the guys here
10:19We're down a guide
10:27Daybreak hits
10:32Looks like you only slept 45 minutes last night and Leo's back on deck, but he's on thin ice
10:38Yeah
10:39When I take somebody crab fishing I expect them to pull your boots on everyone else puts their boots on and you go on deck
10:46And you do the job until it's done. There's no
10:48Laying around that's not how it works
10:52Steven will deal with his crew later
10:58He's got bigger problems
11:06The wind hits 25 knots and climbing and his hopes of landing 40,000 pounds on this trip
11:14start to vanish
11:19If there's a lot of risk with fishing like, you know, there is a lot of things that can go wrong
11:25The seas whip up and the gear is pushed to its limits
11:35In freaking and crack is all the way to the crab a pile of stress
11:48East of the Magdalene Islands trouble hit Stephen Clark's boat
11:55And crab fishing
11:57Has come to a dead stop
12:02The booms hinge plate is cracked a critical piece that swings traps onto the deck
12:08The boom brings it up from the bottom 300 feet down one wave came that twisted the boat
12:14Different than what she wanted to do
12:19The weakest part broke right when I have to go in and get that welder
12:24So is a weak link and everything you do right Oh with the hauler dead Steven's three-day trip is cut short
12:32Living the dream dreams are also nightmares, but whatever
12:41Back on shore and old Harry a new captain is getting ready to take the helm
12:47Get your gear ready. I still got a list of things I gotta do
12:52After waiting on the sidelines for years Kevin is finally getting his shot at being captain
12:57I've been a deckhand for 15 years. So
13:00It is a big transition captain
13:04Big day tomorrow
13:06His uncle is nearing retirement. So Kevin bought his snow crab license
13:10I don't have a lot of experience operating the boat
13:13and even when you're on shore you still have a lot of work to do and get your bait ready and your boat ready and
13:18You got things to do around the house. It's definitely gonna be a lot of learning
13:24Tomorrow he sits in the captain's chair for the first time
13:27I've been waiting a long time to do it on my own a bit
13:31You got to get in the seat and you got to do it yourself. You got to live the experience
13:36Hopefully I get through the year
13:43240 kilometers in 12 hours from the islands
13:48Kevin's older brother Adam is looking for a big payday
13:52Right off the bow now, okay, I got you
13:57Adam needs at least
13:59$20,000 worth of crab this trip
14:03The expense is probably about 7,000 make sure the ropes not around the
14:09When you come back unless you're making a hole
14:12He's still a rookie with Atlantic snow crab learning the hot spots the hard way. I think there's something in it this time
14:20Needles coming right up here comes
14:32After struggling to fill his pots the crew finally hits crab
14:38What nice crab
14:50The captain might have found his first big payday
15:06Feeling pretty good
15:11But Adams northern luck starts to wear off as he works his way south
15:19Come on
15:26Not as good here the catch is dropping off
15:31Maybe that's why there's no crab here. Give me that lobster
15:36Well, I love lobster
15:39Normally wherever there's lobsters it puts the run to the crab probably gonna go in the hole of $5,000
15:49I don't know if it's the bait I put on or the water depth
15:56Wow
15:59We started the day with three crates the trap and now all we're getting is three crab a trap
16:05They're not here
16:07With only a quarter of his catch on board Adam makes a call so far north is better. So
16:14Gonna move it
16:18He's moving every trap in the south back up north mostly all of them now more time
16:24More fuel, but it's a bet Adam has to make just got to follow your instinct and don't double-guess yourself
16:33I'm not coming back empty-handed again
16:43Long old days out here
16:47Back south captain William Burke is fighting his own battle
16:56It's day four of his 10-day season and the scallop returns are abysmal
17:02Make sure you clean it good
17:05How many baskets will not want to do it
17:08Holy shit, something's just not working right for us today. The captain has an idea why things have gone south the solar eclipse
17:16Special to see can't say that it affected the scallops, but when those full moon tides are on the fishing goes down
17:24It's like looking for a needle in a haystack
17:26It's a huge bottom and you can miss them for sure you go out on a little hunt search for them
17:31The rest is luck. I guess the moon ship is having no luck today
17:35They've got a hundred pounds on deck far off their target
17:38You can get up to a thousand or more if you're really lucky, but if you get five or six hundred pounds
17:44That's that's a good day
17:46Throwing in the towel on a bad day isn't an option
17:49I got ten days and I paid a half a million dollars to get in this business. I got to fish them all
17:57I
18:00William's seen enough. It's time to try something new
18:07Longer teeth on the dredges means deeper dicks for scallops kind of feels like a pit stop
18:15Every second the dredges aren't on the sea floor the captains losing money
18:20Once the drags come up, you're in a big rush. Try to get them back on the bottom
18:26Yeah
18:36You're not making no money when the drags are on the surface
18:41The new teeth change moon shifts fortune right away for the worse
18:50Hundreds of pounds of rock caught in the trap
18:53Shifting moon shifts balance pushing it to the edge
18:57Once they get in the air and a sea hits the boat at the same time even a 20-foot wide boats gonna rock. So
19:05That's when it gets dangerous one small wave right now could be disastrous
19:21I'm gonna show you on the board
19:23While the fishermen battle the ocean the fight at gross yields only school is for the future right now
19:30You should have done
19:32your news channel
19:34Teaching here is different
19:36Classrooms are small
19:38student numbers even smaller I
19:41have worked in the school system since
19:452011 our
19:46School is really small. It's only like 30 odd students and then the forecast
19:52You can have like nine students over three grades all in one classroom
19:57Today her students are covering a big story
20:00Yesterday's main event the Eclipse the Eclipse passed right over our island
20:07The whole experience connects us to the bigger world
20:11Class size and school population have taken a hit in the last decade
20:15The last few years have been really hard for this community when I started working at the school in
20:222011 there were 76 students this year. We're down to 38
20:27Like can it's just a constant struggle to have enough kids to make a classroom to make it stimulating
20:36That's where you were Ryder last class. I'm pretty sure you guys were doing the weather, but Nancy isn't giving up
20:41She's fighting to keep kids engaged and her community alive and some of you were doing ads
20:48your team
20:52Yeah
20:53It's not a good sign when your school population is continuously dwindling because it means that you don't have a youth population
21:03In
21:042016 they closed the school on industry Island
21:08It's literally you're closing the door on the village the future really you want your community to grow
21:15She believes in her students her town and the possibility of growth
21:21inspired by a once-in-a-lifetime event to me being at the Eclipse feels like a
21:27rebirth or a renewal
21:29It's like life continues
21:32Like our village will continue
21:38Back on the water Williams catch of the day is every scallop fishermen's nightmare
21:45a
21:47Hundreds of pounds of rocks stuck in the gear making the moon ship dangerously unstable
21:55Every second wrestling this rock is money lost putting us behind putting us behind
22:15Okay, go down
22:16Yeah, we lost some time there
22:18The moon ship is good to go, but in desperate need of more scallop
22:37How many pounds in that one with 60 60 yes, sir boy
22:42Last Oh had double the triple what we've been getting all day. We've got six baskets. So we're pretty ecstatic about it
22:50Finally give some life to the crew after a dark gloomy day
22:54With the catch is increasing. It looks like another decent home
23:00No, the fish is really hard can do it there for over 20 hours. So
23:04Homestead for sure. It's in my family
23:07Sometimes I wonder why I'm doing it but out here. It's not just about the money
23:13a deck box, but you're telling a scholar why I dare you but in the end
23:21It's kind of like a camping trip with the boys, you know
23:25We we have a lot of fun
23:30If you're not close with your family your crew
23:34You got nothing down here
23:36It's hard to beat
23:50315 a.m
23:51The start of a milestone day for Kevin Clark his first as captain of labia
23:58Today's gonna be my first day a little bit nervous about it
24:02But I've been waiting for this for a long time
24:07Kevin bought his uncle's license and for his first trips. He's keeping the old captain on board
24:13He's gonna come with me and he's gonna show me how everything works. So pretty happy about that
24:17I think it's gonna work well, and and hopefully we could catch them fast
24:24You know being a new owner first time doing crab putting a weight on my shoulders a bit I guess the first test
24:32navigation
24:37I
24:39See the way points a way point saying to Paul she'll try
24:44Yeah, press a tomato numero
24:46It's okay. No, okay. That's a positive. I'm clean. So
24:52Okay, you know tomato numero
24:54Okay
24:59Kevin sets a course 40 kilometers offshore good. Holly
25:05The older captains have experience of being on the water you got to get in the seat and you got to do it yourself
25:10You got to live the experience
25:17They put you check what do we do it
25:21Go be a little ball. I don't know the next lesson of the day pulling up alongside a crab trap
25:30Yeah, okay
25:32Speed don't take it. No
25:47But that's on the bar
25:52Wrong way
26:02Hello
26:07Don't be fast
26:11But I think so I've got much experience behind the wheel
26:19Really hard to get the buoy
26:21Every which way you try and still it's tricky. Kevin is fighting everything the wind the waves
26:28Current I'm gonna go underneath
26:30Off the catcher going head-on
26:34Right now
26:38Oh, yeah
26:41That would be awesome
26:48Bad driver, let's say. Yeah, try it
26:55You're all captain
27:00I
27:10Get it
27:30Just
27:33Pain in the arse in grand entry
27:36After a trip cut short help has finally arrived for captain Stephen Clark and it's broken boom
27:45Got broke a cylinder off the spring just from the weight of everything spinning around snapped it off had to come in and get a welder
27:54Lost a lot of my do
27:56I mean to bring out another thousand. That's the price you pay when you want to be in this game
28:05It's just crazy from when I first started
28:09Everything's just
28:11Climbed up so much for Stephen. It's never just been about the money
28:16Fishing's in his blood. I've been fishing. This is my 16th season
28:21So fishing's kind of been my whole life really I guess
28:24My grandfather did it both sides
28:27My uncle and father did
28:30And I'm doing this but life on the islands is getting tougher
28:35Things are definitely changing around here. It just kind of looks like a dying island really like it. It's kind of sad
28:43Before then there were stores everywhere there was restaurants all over the place. There was like little shops boutiques everything
28:54I
28:56Do last trip Stephen with his boat under repair?
28:59Stephen stocks up on bait. You think you don't need any more squid or no
29:04Buddy, I'm not very hard. Please take a block of heron or something like that. Three
29:12Tech and Leo packs the bait hoping for redemption after yesterday's performance
29:18This didn't really hurt to find good hands like fishing get a guy they don't last for
29:23A week or two and they're trying to get another guy and they don't last then you're trying to get another guy
29:27It's just a pain in the arse
29:29Thanks for now
29:31You get to redeem yourself
29:33About this time
29:35never again
29:39Leo's a different case
29:41You gotta be quick for him. It's kind of like my little Labrador dog over there
29:44You gotta yell at him and yell to stay. Tell him what to do what not to do
29:49he's a good guy, it's just
29:52He's training
29:56Stephen has thrown Leo a lifeline, but now the race is on to make up for lost time
30:02She's your bait your fuel the men's salaries the upkeep if you don't make like a minimum of
30:09$300,000 you wouldn't even make it to the next season
30:16Back on the boat. Thank you again
30:21The boom is ready to start hauling crab again
30:24Go back and get the rest of them. We're gonna be sailing all through the night. It's just part of fishing
30:31You're not gonna let one bad trip make you throw in the towel the wind is starting to drop out now
30:37We get back out there
30:41Go
30:43Up
30:49North the work never stops for Captain Adam
30:53He spent the last 24 hours
30:56crisscrossing his own working north dropping every pot he has
31:01Start letting your buoy out then
31:05100 gone
31:08Now he's at the end of the line
31:10Stand back. It's time to turn around head home and hope for some early returns on trap set yesterday
31:18I'm just gonna cross my fingers that my traps get a few thousand pounds
31:29Adams fuel is running low every extra stop a risk you run out of fuel. It's
31:36You'll probably not find anyone to go fishing with you ever again
31:40We have to account for all the running around with these traps do we have how many miles to those traps?
31:50Despite electronic gauges Adam checks his fuel the old-fashioned way
31:59My tank gauge I didn't trust it since the boat was built. This was the second sensor I had into it
32:06it's
32:08kind of iffy
32:11You
32:18That's that's more calculate full that's how many inches
32:24Say don't nobody panic eight inches of fuel
32:28eight inches of fuel
32:32Five what is it full?
32:35I'm 24 24. So I should be alright with fuel, but you never know
32:47There's doing some figuring in my head nine
32:51The captain and crew will have to crawl home
32:54I'll have to slow down the speed to about nine knots to to get this done
32:58So if not, we're not gonna have enough fuel to get back home
33:04You
33:13Yeah work time boy
33:16Back South
33:18Like it new bait and a newly welded boom our delivery results
33:26They're back on the crab
33:29But the captain can't let his guard down
33:33Yeah, you got a lot of stuff going on right there's a lot of moving parts you have to stay alert for you don't want
33:37to hit another boat out fishing or you're sailing around in the fog like ropes running off the side that
33:43The guys can get hooked up in
33:46heat fatigue
33:50Bad recipe man
33:59Smoke is coming from the engine room
34:03Oh
34:07My god, you definitely don't want to fire there
34:1825 kilometers off the coast of the Magdalene Islands and hours from hell
34:26There's trouble in the engine room on the deep insider you definitely don't want to fire there
34:33You
34:37Steven see smoke coming from the exhaust
34:40But upon closer inspection, it's just steam burning off the water riser that keeps the exhaust cold
34:47The clamp seems to be stretched out
34:50So I tightened it up, but it's just leaking salt water onto my engine right now, which isn't ideal
34:56without having put much of a dent in his
34:59170,000 pound crab quota Steven has to power through no matter the condition of his boat. I
35:08Have a very short window to try and catch that crab before lobster starts
35:23The tide is strong today Oh
35:29Yeah, you turn
35:33New captain Kevin is still learning the ropes trying to master the art of piloting his boat as close to the crab buoys as possible
35:45Okay
35:49Ah, yeah, you should ball
35:53A
36:01New captain a language barrier and a lesson in currents, I was trying to catch the buoy going
36:09against the tide language barrier
36:13French and leaf and the French, but he said it's better to catch the buoy going head on to the wind
36:23Oh
36:30You get a good one, yep
36:36Yeah, good good good
36:40The rookie captain is getting the hang of it. I really like being in the captain seat, you know, it's a different feeling better
36:47Just can't wait to haul them up to see what's in them
36:53That's
36:57Done
36:59The day's over by 22.6
37:05At the end of the day it was getting pretty good at it so nice day well, we're getting faster
37:13Like he don't have any these we saw
37:16Ah, it's me so say
37:21So game not mean you saw game
37:25Halfway through the day things were going pretty pretty smooth. So very content with my day
37:30Let's go boy working away shore one straight line. Meanwhile far to the north Dave on fuel
37:37Kevin's older brother Adam has one eye on his crab traps and one eye on his fuel gauge. I
37:44Need at least 200 gallons of fuel to get home
37:47What do you got now?
37:49I
37:51Need at least 200 gallons of fuel to get home
37:54I
37:56Need at least 200 gallons of fuel to get home
37:58What do you got now
38:00Probably 200 down
38:04You guys come across that buoy yet
38:07Yeah, right. Yeah, right there up ahead. Yeah, no you turns
38:13Can't turn back here
38:15What you're saying is if we miss it, we don't have to fish it. Yeah, he's working south from Anticoste Island
38:21Checking and resetting traps along the way. Okay
38:24The catch is improving but the trip is taking its toll on the crew
38:29it's getting better and fishing a couple just to
38:32See where the crab are where we started
38:3630 hours ago
38:3730 something hours ago 40 now as long as you got bait you can just keep fishing and fishing and fishing
38:46But we don't have bait or fuel so it's gonna come in and very shortly
38:51This is the last one and we're going home we're sailing our way to shore now guys. Yay
39:01So we just got to ease our way to shore like so
39:04You want to keep slowing the boat down right until I have enough to get home?
39:12140 miles to home
39:16You gotta make wise choices out here
39:20Running on fumes
39:25Captain Adam and the crew of the miss Sophia Daisy have coasted back into the safety of the Grand Entry Harbor
39:33Out of gas but full of crab
39:51We
39:54Got home about half as fast as we normally would have to make sure that we had the fuel but we made it eventually
40:02They pushed their luck but made it home
40:0669 crates of crab
40:0870 hours at sea and nothing left in the tank
40:13Next trip we should have a really good catch
40:18Almost sure
40:20I
40:36Stephen and his crew are playing catch up after losing time to boat repairs
40:41Spots good
40:46They'll stay out at sea to work through the night the only upside to the day
40:52Home cooked food from his fiancee
40:55The closest he'll get to family for months to come
41:03You know, I can't necessarily just take a couple days off here and there to go home just people miss me or I miss them
41:11Out
41:14Here feelings get left on shore the job comes first set your feelings aside get into the fishing game
41:25Hi, buddy, yeah
41:30Eating apples
41:32Calls on the run the only family time during fishing season. This is the sacrifice that comes with it
41:39Here we are
41:51Love you
41:54For now
41:56Stephen's job comes with a steep sacrifice
41:59Something he'll have to live with for the next few months
42:09I was the next next best thing for us
42:13It's close to home only five hours away if they do need me or good trip across the gulf in the boat
42:19I can be there in a few hours
42:23This is kind of kind of the compromise we made. It's try to have a better life
42:28Make some sacrifices
42:31Being not too far away. You miss a ton. You see them you see them growing in a camera
42:36But it's not the same thing as when you put it into
42:39Person, it's kind of heartbreaking when you think about which is terrible
42:42But everything comes with a price to me for me to provide a better life for my family with more opportunities
42:49I have to be gone from my family for a while
42:52But that's the choice we all decided to make and we went with and there's there's no going back on that now
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