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00:00Previously on East Harbor Heroes, Ron Curtis and his crew faced their fears during critical
00:13survival training.
00:14Courses like this drives at home what you're doing each and every day.
00:19Before pushing off for their next trip.
00:20We're just setting our course now, 200 miles away, and then after that it's game on.
00:25Right now, this is good fishing.
00:27This is good.
00:29Bill Morgan successfully completed one of his many fisheries for the year.
00:33We're trying to stay as busy as we can doing different fisheries, because the more stuff
00:36we get at, the better it is for the low end of the company.
00:42And the new dive team tackled back-to-back dockings in St. John's.
00:45Very picky.
00:46Very tedious.
00:47Oh, we got it.
00:49There you go.
00:51Never underestimate the ocean.
00:53Be careful now, Bart.
00:54You always got to be watching that way, right?
00:56Tara, I'm cast 9-0-5 in the climb.
00:58You can always expect that there's something unexpected that's going to happen.
01:03We got to get a move on.
01:04Okay, we're getting to the ballpark now.
01:06A bit challenging on times, no good but that.
01:08The boats are there, the crews are ready, and whatever it takes.
01:11These are the East Harbour heroes.
01:18I'm feeling pretty confident.
01:22It's a beautiful day.
01:23Pretty excited.
01:24A few hours outside of St. John's.
01:27We just got off a large welding job on the south coast on the fish farms.
01:31And so lucky we were all prepped and ready to go, so our trailer was ready.
01:35Alex McClagan and Mike Taylor from New Dive are about to start a new job.
01:40We're down in Glovertown today, and we are about to dive on the Norcon Galatea.
01:47It's an old ferry that's been all over Newfoundland.
01:50I'm riding it our whole lives.
01:51I used to take it to my family home in Fogo when I was a kid.
01:56Yeah, she's an old relic, man.
02:01After servicing remote Newfoundland communities for nearly 50 years,
02:05the ferry was decommissioned and sold to an international buyer.
02:08So as far as I know, this is heading to the Caribbean.
02:11It's being bought by a fellow from Miami.
02:15But before it sails south, it needs to be scrubbed clean.
02:19Invasive species, it's become a big problem here.
02:21It's caused a lot of issues for ecosystems locally.
02:25An invasive species is a non-native organism that spreads rapidly in a new environment.
02:31There are currently seven kinds of invasive species in Newfoundland waters,
02:35all of which are harmful.
02:37So in a lot of places, it is regulation to minimize the cross-contamination of invasive species that's going on.
02:44We're starting back after.
02:46Roger.
02:47Okay.
02:48The fastest way for species to spread is on the hulls of ships traveling through international waters.
02:53I think this one's going to be pretty dirty.
02:55It looks like it's, you know, some elbow grease on this job.
03:05Let's get a K bottle ready, and we're going to do the 1.30 for your standby?
03:101.30 for standby.
03:11K bottle on top.
03:12Roger.
03:13Yeah.
03:14Don't have a lot of time.
03:15We're starting late today.
03:16It's almost 10 o'clock.
03:17I want to be in the water by 10.
03:18We have 15 minutes.
03:22The North Atlantic has become one of the most studied areas for climate change.
03:31The waters around Newfoundland and Labrador have seen dramatic changes over the past decade.
03:36My name is Kylie Best, and I'm a fisheries biologist with the Center for Fisheries Ecosystems Research.
03:41Our climate is changing, and that's a humongous problem.
03:46That's not a quick fix.
03:47The same thing that makes it challenging is the same thing that makes it interesting as well.
03:51It's always changing.
03:52It's always evolving.
03:53There's always things that you have to work around.
03:56Climate change throws a wrench in your plans.
03:59We've got to pivot and figure other things out so people can still have a livelihood and still be on the water.
04:10100 miles off the east coast of the island, Captain Ron Curtis and crew are halfway to new fishing grounds.
04:18The crew have no idea what the next few days hold as they're trying a new fishery.
04:23Ron got something to go catch.
04:26We're all here to go catch it.
04:28Ron and his crew have been selected by the DFO to collect data on sea cucumbers off the northeast coast.
04:34If cucumbers become a commercial fishery in this area, by doing the survey, Ron will be offered a license.
04:41It's exciting to be involved in a new fishery.
04:44I've been involved in so many different fisheries now, but this one is probably one where I'm going to be going out as a captain
04:51and not knowing what to expect, really, just from what I'm told.
04:56For a fisherman or an enterprise owner, I mean you're always looking for new ways to generate revenue.
05:03When things like this are available to you or come up, you know, you jump at the chance to try it.
05:10Sea cucumber are soft-bodied, tube-shaped species that are popular in Asia, where they're used in traditional cuisine and medicine.
05:17The market for this fishery is growing, but it's still in the development phase in this part of Newfoundland,
05:22and scientists need more intel to determine sustainable catch rates.
05:26It's all new to me, and it's all new to the crew, so it's one of the things we're going in blind.
05:33There could be a few ups and downs or a few curse words on this or that before the trip is over.
05:40It seems like in the past years it's been getting pretty popular around these areas, especially on the south coast.
05:45I mean, the fishermen do have their own quota down there, and they've been involved in it for a few years.
05:50So it seems like it's going to be a pretty good fishery.
05:54While Ron Curtis is doing his part to try and open up a new fishery up north,
05:58the south coast sea cucumber fishery is already open for business.
06:02Yeah, it's too good of a forecaster now not to.
06:05That's why the boss has gotten there too.
06:08Now haul this back now, Logan.
06:11Skipper Daniel Morgan is one of the few license holders for sea cucumbers in his area.
06:16The license came with the purchase of his boat, the Alice T.
06:19I'm happy to have a sea cucumber license because there's not a lot of licenses out there for sea cucumber,
06:25so it feels pretty privileged to have one of those.
06:27Right now we're switching up our cucumber ramps.
06:32We're having a problem with the sliding, so we're making the angle a bit greater,
06:37so we'll just slide in so the boys don't have to do as much work with it.
06:41We're going to crunch for time now to get out there for daily.
06:43So now we'll try it out and see if it works.
06:53Is that better like that?
06:56That'll work, won't it?
06:58Alright, let's take this off. We'll get our race going then.
07:02Yeah, pick it up and kick it out.
07:11Okay, one, two, three.
07:14Back in Glovertown, Alex, Mike, and the team from New Dive are racing to get in the water.
07:20Alright.
07:21Air on one.
07:22Air on one.
07:23Air on one.
07:29Yeah, got you loud and clear. You got me?
07:31Yeah, loud and clear.
07:32Perfect.
07:33First item, lock out, tag out, confirmed dead ship on this one.
07:37So as soon as we get in, let's just do a preliminary scan.
07:40I got 150 bar on the bottle and blood down.
07:45Ready for main gas.
07:46Roger that.
07:50I'm main.
07:52Main gas confirmed.
07:53Roger.
07:54Ready for the hat?
07:56There you go.
08:05Robbers left surface.
08:07Oh jeez.
08:08Roger.
08:10The sides look pretty good.
08:11You just got some real light grass there.
08:13Little to no, uh, actually looks like maybe an old muscle bed that's after going off.
08:20Roger, that's excellent.
08:21Yeah, see how the little...
08:22Yeah, yeah, the filament.
08:24Let's dip underneath the bilge keel.
08:26Under the bilge keel, we do have some muscle growth.
08:29And it looks like it's right on the, uh, keel line.
08:32Wow, that's, uh, that's a lot better than I was expecting.
08:34Yeah, me too, and, uh, you know, muscles is pretty well the best we could hope for.
08:38Absolutely.
08:40Okay, I'm gonna start on this rotor and then, uh, work my way top down.
08:44Roger that. Let's get after it.
08:47There is evidence that there was more marine growth on it, but it was after coming off.
08:50So whether it died or, uh, whatever due to conditions, I think some of it may have come off.
08:58I'm just having the best time.
09:01Okay.
09:08Man off?
09:09Man's off.
09:10Yeah, I left you a few, little man.
09:11Yeah.
09:13I gotta get a wash.
09:14With their diver, Matt, handling one final sweep with a pressure washer, the ferry is almost ready for her journey to her new harbour.
09:27All done for the day.
09:28Job over.
09:29Job complete.
09:30I can't think of anything that didn't go well today.
09:31All of our diving operations went really well.
09:32The job was complete.
09:34Everybody came home safe and really that's all we can ask for.
09:36While Alex and Mike successfully prepped the old ferrys into the sea water, the ferry had to be.
09:39Again, Jim and Raleigh, they were on the boat, PowerPoint up and » Beetle subsid Slayer-«
09:52anything that didn't go well today all of our diving operations went really well the job was
09:57complete everybody came home safe and really that's all we can ask for while alex and mike
10:02successfully prepped the old fairy for her next journey a team of scientists are prepping to hunt
10:09for an unwanted species that is spreading quickly along the south coast we're in hermitage on the
10:16south coast of newfoundland and i'm just tagging along with the dfo team we're doing a monitoring
10:20dive here on the government war biologist and diver philip sergeant is the team lead for the dfo crew
10:30you basically monitor for invasive species in the the area of newfoundland and labrador i'm in charge
10:35of the surveys for this particular trip looking mainly for vase tunicates but also any other
10:41invasive species especially the biofouling ones that attach to orbs and boats and other structures
10:47in water kylie and the dfo team need to assess the threat level posed by vase tunicate
10:55there's thousands of species of tunicates all over the world the scary ones are club tunicate and
11:00vase tunicate they're the scariest ones vase tunicate is here in newfoundland and we're
11:04very concerned about that one and a lot of work is being done on that one so when the conditions are
11:08right when the water is warm the little larvae release it's just like planting an invasive plant
11:14like if the seed is there it's going to continue to go you can't get rid of it it can smother things
11:19so whatever it's growing on if it's alive like if it's on a scallop it can smother the scallop because
11:23it can't open its mouth to exchange water and feed it can also just weigh things down buoys get covered
11:29over in tunicates it can sink and then your gear is gone we're trying to figure out what the extent of
11:35the invasion is tunicates were first found on the south coast of newfoundland and the sentia bay
11:41is kind of ground zero for a lot of invasive species because there's so much vessel traffic
11:45in and out of that area so we have the things coming in from outside that i've never seen before
11:52we have such a large region with a huge coastline the problem is constantly expanding we're getting
11:58more and more species all the time and they're spreading more and more in the province so
12:01it's a huge workload and we need a lot of people a lot of hands to get the work done
12:14on the south coast of newfoundland biologist kylie best and divers from the dfo
12:18are investigating how deeply vase tunicate have spread in one of the island's busiest harbors
12:23they sat on the end of the wharf they'll probably go out cross over to the other floating wharf come
12:29back in can i hold on to someone yeah thank you when the first diver surfaces she brings a collection
12:38plate that the team placed last year this is good to look at
12:43so this is what we wanted to settle on specifically lots and lots
12:51yeah uh lots of vase tunicates the basically the bottom of the floating docks are completely covered
12:56in juvenile muscles and then there's clumps of vase tunicate on the bottoms underneath the floating
13:02docks this little spot here like if you can really tell how it's attached on the muscle
13:05well like this poor muscle is not going to be okay it's a probably good lesson in competition here like
13:11these are your native species and these are your invasive species so these weren't here like this
13:17whole thing would be covered in mussels the best we can do is really concentrate our efforts on
13:22slowing the spread or containing them as much as possible there's so much effort in preventing
13:28movement between vessels or teaching people to make sure they're clean or just teaching people
13:32don't move your gear if you know it's maybe contaminated or just let it sit out in the sun for a while
13:36let it dry up the northeast coast is where most of the muscle farming in newfoundland happens and
13:41they don't have this yet we want to keep it that way because that can be really detrimental to the
13:45industry there if these things do spread up there i mean look at the muscle industry in
13:51pei nova scotia like a lot of farmers have had to shut down because of vase tunicates
13:57mussel farmers and other maritime provinces lose millions of dollars every year due to the destructive
14:02impact of vase tunicates
14:10my name is juan roberts i'm the owner of edgerberry mussel farms
14:14we started in 1988 so this is 36 years for us
14:18i always wanted to be a farmer so now i'm farming in the ocean
14:22we started off with three or four sites which is about 500 hectares of water
14:26now we own over 20 something sites and over 2000 hectares of water
14:31there's about three or four people in newfoundland all together now we're one of them and we got
14:35probably one of the biggest operations i'd say in newfoundland
14:40i mean newfoundland got what 17 000 kilometers of coastline and only 500 000 people living in it
14:45it wasn't for that culture that some parts of newfoundland did be ghost town
14:50poly rope that's around seven foot long just hanging on the main line hanging down seven feet
14:55each line is around 2400 sometimes 1200 depends on the length that you got there's around 50 000 in
15:02this one site juan and his team are a few of the hundreds of mussel harvesters that are proactively
15:08working to prevent an invasion on their operations everybody's freaked out over a visa species the
15:14traditional fishery and the big ships with oil and stuff keeps coming into the harbors and keeps
15:20pumping builds water overboard without any restriction you're going to have it all overnight there's no control
15:25over any tunicate we don't want it helps that we're on the northeast coast and it helps that we
15:32got colder water most tunicates and other species don't like cold water well obviously climate change
15:37has affected it we've been doing this for 36 years 30 years ago you would not have us true to winter
15:44and now we can if you get it on your site you got to try to restrict it try to keep it away from your
15:49site it can wipe you thank god the 36 years that we've had turned out well any kind of fishery in
15:58this land you're never guaranteed what it's going to be so you just got to brace yourself for the worst
16:02and try to do what you can
16:10yeah we should be all ready to go now we got our supplies now to board we just got a backer into the
16:14wharf put on our cucumber rake and uh hopefully get going when it comes to fishing it's all about
16:20time so you got to be fast and you just got to be steady go and that's uh that's the only way that
16:25you're going to make it that's gotta swing this way over this way really that's almost perfect
16:35every uh different fishery that we goes at we got to change up pretty well all the gear this here's
16:40that cucumber rake this is what's going to make us all the money we're going to put some wire around
16:44the shackle so we can't back off because you don't want to lose this one that's all right let her go
17:00the time of the day don't really matter to us no we're ready to go we get ready and it goes
17:06finally on the way we're heading to eastern cucumber bed on saint peter bank we got around 97 miles to go
17:27now anxious to get at it now a little bit of a steam
17:31it seems 200 miles off the east coast of the island skipper ron curtis and his crew have nearly
17:37reached their sea cucumber grounds hello hey how's it going good how's it going with you oh wonderful
17:48sea watch observer drew forward is on board to collect data on the two survey zones allocated to
17:53ron by the dfo scientists depend on fishers to examine the sea floor so they can determine where
17:59a fishery can exist survey blocks first block 33 second block 34 yes it's only 20 toes then yeah
18:1110 toes in each block well that's wonderful i was thinking it was going to be 30. the 900 square miles
18:18ron will be fishing has never been surveyed for sea cucumbers before we're hoping fingers crossed that
18:23it'll turn out good and the quality of the good so yeah if so we'll keep doing that but if not we'll have
18:28to change it up and try something different yeah all new exploratory
18:37ron will navigate the osc mariner across two blocks stretching 25 miles long over the next four days
18:44the cost is all on you when it comes to paying for the observer and the gear and stuff like that
18:49but in the end if they do issue out like uh permanent license full-time licenses i mean
18:55it's usually that you can can make money at right we're about to go shoot out a rake hopefully we get
19:01some uh cucumber you ready
19:11sea cucumbers are captured using heavy trawls that glide along the sea floor for upwards of 15 minutes
19:17the crew of the osc mariner haven't used this type of gear in years so it's all trial and error to launch
19:23and retrieve the rake
19:27all right right off the bed that rake's twisted the wrong way
19:29way
19:39uh
19:40yeah
19:41well when it went back there it just twisted around the wrong way it was upside down really
19:57so we we've got it straightened up it's all new to us we don't know where they're to but before this
20:04trip's over we'll find them
20:11dump the cucumbers in the tank and he's gonna let the tank up one of the one of the bag which is there
20:17come down here and then we'll pick at whatever rocks or whatever's in it
20:21let it go let it go let it go
20:31down on your winch and up on your tackle
20:33on the osc mariner ron and his crew are hauling in their first trawl
20:37the exploratory sea cucumber survey seeing what the ratio to bycatch to sea cucumbers is to see if it
20:44is going to be a viable commercial fishery
20:56there cucumber in it i see one two i got a steam three miles there now
21:02my first impression is that it's definitely an exploratory fishery
21:13no living creatures at all some starfish some crab two cucumbers but that's all shells
21:21i say this is where the clan boats comes and dumps off all their garbage but it looks all
21:24the shells yeah just trial and error for for the first 20 toes then if we don't if we don't find
21:30none if we don't get none in the in the 20 toes then we're allowed to go where they're getting some
21:37when you're out there in an area where there was no dragging done before you could be right
21:42alongside them you've got a little small seven or eight foot rake tone over the bottom you could miss
21:48them by within feet there might be thousands further along the south coast in hardy's cove kylie best and
22:02the dfo dive team are investigating reports that vase tunicate is invading an isolated bay we go down
22:09that way there and we're out with a local person who has noticed from maybe vase tunicate on their
22:15scallops yeah i think it's been a place for scallops for a long time and you just know everything
22:19changes and that's that's what this language we're great at education is massive and it's huge
22:24they look kind of pretty but they're bad so making sure that people understand why they're
22:29an issue and not just this cool new thing that's growing fish are numerous and now you can't get one
22:35to eat if the bay is dead up until this spring i didn't know what a tunicate was an invasive
22:41tunicate went out one day scallop dragon and i pulled up these few little tubes by the time august
22:49came you could hardly scallop drink there was so much there it just exploded the bay is a disaster
22:57and it's sad it's such a beautiful bay and you know there's no heavy traffic there's no fairies there's
23:03no big commercial vessels or anything like that so for this species to get into these remote areas that
23:10gives you an idea of how pervasive the problem is down on this on the south coast now we're just
23:15going to go down in front of all the cabins and go right off the beach and straight out
23:20i've been kylie and phil and uh the team coming here today i mean this is awesome today i mean it
23:27it shows that at least somebody cares and it's not only me
23:31uh a lot of days tuning here in some cases it's grown like a meadow in little patches here in the
23:43cove if this continues the whole bottom could be covered in it this is not good not for a small
23:52cove like this uh the question is where is it coming from how is it getting in these isolated spots is it
23:58coming off from other areas and drifting in we yet to figure that out i'm 72 years old i don't know
24:04how much time i've got but i'm going up fighting i'm going out fighting you've got no environment you
24:10got no life i mean that's our life right there the water different industries have different
24:17implications um but at the very base level at an ecological level bad news
24:30don't clear over 100 miles off the south coast skipper daniel morgan and his crew have arrived at
24:37their fishing grounds this is daniel's second trip of the season so he's confident they've landed in the
24:42right spot usually tows anywhere from eight to ten minutes but you can feel when it's getting heavy
24:52you can feel the boat slowing down i'm starting to feel that now it's a good time less hope is
24:58cucumbers hopefully within 14 15 hours we'll have this boat full if it's good going with you guess what time it is
25:12we got a few in there not a big big bag but not bad
25:28a lot of dirt ain't it that's too bad there's a bit of dirt into it though so hopefully we'll get
25:34out of that as it goes on but that's it
25:41me and danny are uh setting back out now we're just tired of another tow
25:47i'd say we probably got 1500 pounds in that one probably we're hoping for probably around like
25:532500-3000 pounds a tow
26:00with 70 000 pounds already caught this year
26:03daniel has another 190 000 pounds to go to fulfill his quota
26:11last time we were coming to the southwest so now we're going to try it towards the northeast
26:15and see if that'll make a difference
26:17but the difference isn't what they were expecting
26:30nothing danny got to be something wrong with that boy no holes in it anywhere is there
26:40well we're going to tow the away from this danny yeah
26:48200 miles off the east coast the crew of the osc mariner aren't having much luck yet in their
26:53first search for sea cucumber you do a tow and then you steam three miles do another tow steam
26:59three miles do another toll so you're not concentrated into one area the potential for a
27:04license isn't the only bonus for this trip for completing the survey the crew are allowed to keep
27:09their catch with a goal of 130 000 pounds of sea cucumbers and a market price of 75 cents per pound
27:16they're chasing a nearly 100 000 payday any sign of cucumber at all
27:25but they have a long way to go
27:2642 42 42 pounds she's looking up boy she's looking up
27:41only about her 100 pounds toes
27:47an hour outside of st john's lies trinity bay where scallops are still safely thriving in the cold
27:53nutrient-rich waters i'm neil burgess i'm a volunteer scientific diver with petty harbor mini aquarium
28:01we better do what we can on this now neil burgess is the president of newfoundland's shipwreck society
28:07and loves diving on shipwrecks but never turns down an opportunity to explore all aspects of the ocean
28:13scuba diving and exploring shipwrecks and things underwater it's a real mix of things that really
28:20appeal to me just the challenge of planning dives the marine life is spectacular here in newfoundland
28:27today neil is volunteering his time to collect scallops for the petty harbor mini aquarium
28:32the petty harbor mini aquarium is something that's very dear to my heart and i've been involved in it
28:36ever since it started and it is a seasonal catch and release mini aquarium we collect local animals put
28:41them in the aquarium in a comfortable natural environment for the season so that the public can come
28:46learn and and visit and understand what's under the the surface here and in the fall we release them
28:52neil burgess has been with us ever since we started so we really depend on volunteer divers to help us
28:57collect our animals typical dive for scallops it's going down to usually about 60 70 80 feet we'll be
29:04putting them in coolers and keeping them happy and healthy and taking them back to the mini aquarium
29:09every year we have to ask permission for the departments and fisheries and oceans to collect
29:20organisms and they give us an area that we're allowed to collect our area right now is between
29:26tripathy and up to random island while northern waters remain free of invasive species it's critical
29:33for projects like the mini aquarium to educate people so they can help protect the ocean
29:38if you're not a fisher you don't know what's down there and some fishers don't know what's down
29:41there if it's not a commercial species we're at 18 meters there now and it looks like it's soft bottom
29:48so that should be a good spot let's try here
29:53yeah they're just following the anchor line down and then they're gonna go look at the scallops
30:10out on the saint pierre bank skipper daniel morgan has set a new course
30:15after recent toes brought in more dirt than sea cucumbers
30:20honey worse than towing and towing and towing for nothing hopefully he's right full
30:24yeah yeah oh yeah that's a lot better it looks clean yeah when he gets into the cucumbers you don't get
30:37many of them old shells and stuff then there's a lot of strain on this one strain is good news for the
30:44catch but the crew can't celebrate yet with thousands of pounds hanging in the air
30:49our cucumber rake basically is a piece of steel around 1500 pounds so you got to really watch
30:56out the crew got to be on their toes because if it gets hit by that that can kill you pretty quick
31:01so you gotta try to get your hooks in as fast as you can you don't want to have that up in the air
31:05for too long yeah this is really really nice look that's what you're looking for that's a full bag
31:22up north on trinity bay diver neil burgess and his team are diving for scalps on the ocean floor
31:47once they come on board i look them over make sure that they're all healthy we can throw back anything
31:51that we don't want to take yeah i was thinking at first we're working to find it yeah the scalp
32:04were pretty thin but they were scattered around we just kept doing a big circuit and it's got a whole
32:09bag rolls yes there are a lot there's an animal in there
32:28so the stops are now in the cooler so we're going to get them back to the mini aquarium
32:33i think that business of educating people especially school kids about
32:38what the ocean is and how the animals down there are really cool
32:42then i think people are more likely to protect and want to protect the ocean
32:52i wasn't anticipating it to be this slow but that's it that's fishing right down your way door
33:00about 200 miles from the northeast coast ron curtis and his crew are still learning on the fly
33:05as they try to track down sea cucumbers
33:11he might be
33:13you might get tipped up a little bit because in this part
33:17i'm off great for
33:18she should be brought right flat out of the bottom
33:22anyway
33:23draw over there
33:24right
33:25yep
33:27i'm gonna try to take the chain off
33:34i'm thinking that heavy chain it's kind of like the tip just a little bit
33:37we're digging into the bottom that's what i'm thinking maybe not i don't know it's all new
33:45with seven of 20 toes left before their survey job is complete and only 50 pounds of cucumbers in
33:50their tanks ron and the crew are looking at a total bust if the weather don't stay good we could have
33:56they end up going in with uh like very little aboard and no one wins or gets anything out of that
34:09less dirt more cucumbers
34:11150 so 142. i'm surprised that we haven't come up with any yet but i mean that's it
34:28could be the bottom could be the depth
34:31even for an experienced skipper like ron lessons on the north atlantic can be harsh coming out here you
34:37wanted to be getting a full trip to make it feasible right but you had to do the survey in
34:42order to get the quota or take the good with the bad at cucumbers is not it's not hard work
34:48it's the long days back and forth back and forth in on deck in the wheelhouse back on deck
34:55there's not a lot of rest time
34:59so time is closing in on us now
35:03yeah the wind is pitching tomorrow so
35:06we only got another day left but i mean you can put a lot of cucumbers down in 24 hours if they're there
35:20oh he will find them all day my mother he will find it before it's all over
35:27the osc mariner is steaming to new grounds to try and salvage a trip that has so far
35:32been a bust get a survey done 20 toes on survey we never came up with nothing very little
35:39the crew are now allowed to fish on proven cucumber grounds but there's weather approaching and they
35:43might run out of time if there's any cucumbers here be just the drag will be going right back
35:49in the water again and drag them if you just steady drag drag drag oh there's nothing in it
36:02oh
36:03oh yeah baby oh yeah
36:13oh
36:15oh put the shoe gun yeah put that one on too
36:28oh
36:39can't go too fast
36:41don't go down
36:58just outside of st john's a cop to order delivery is arriving at the petty harbor mini aquarium
37:04hello what you got in your trunk oh nice here they are they look great we're gonna put these
37:11scallops in a tank down here in the back we got a nice habitat all ready to go for them well our
37:16mission is to foster curiosity for local marine life and educate the public and bringing them into
37:21the aquarium gives them the chance to see marine life up close and hopefully that gets them curious
37:25about the animals gets them thinking about what they do in their daily lives that they can be doing
37:29to protect the ocean this is a nice big scallop angry he's out of the water so i'm going to put that
37:34one in in you go and that's how a scallop does swim so that's how they swim with some of it now
37:42what do you call them a vacation time share time share time share for a little while and then
37:47they'll go back to their their home yeah they're safe from predators and they get to help us educate
37:52the public about marine life and then yeah in the season they'll be returned exactly where we got them from
37:57yeah on the osc mariner ron and his crew are finally filling the boat but the clock is ticking
38:21yeah not much sleep at this racket not much sleep at all
38:23they're just catching like 20 winks in between each toe here now
38:32probably stopped for like 10 minutes or 15 minutes
38:36they are caught between trying to salvage their trip and incoming weather
38:40looking at the forecast later on this evening the wind is supposed to uh come 30 and orderly so
38:46that'll put an end to the cucumber fishing for this trip
38:53you can't be lying down when there's weather coming like you're going to get a break down
38:59so you got to make the best of the good days you got to fish as long as you can and the hardest you can
39:09about 100 miles off the southern tip of the island skipper daniel morgan and his crew are in the home
39:14stretch yeah this is our last tone now we're taking back we got we got quite the load of water which is
39:19pretty heavy so we'll dump this one in the box now and then that'll settle out and we'll put that in as we're going
39:30uh she's not making much speed right now we're all doing five and a half knots
39:34so hopefully the tide will come around with us now as we're going in but it feels good we made uh 46 toes
39:41and we got our trip so that's all that matters their goal today was 70 000 pounds and they nailed it
39:50as soon as it gets uploaded we're turning around we're heading right back out my goals over the next
39:55couple of years is to try to catch as much as i can so i can buy a bigger boat this boat is hardly big
40:01enough what i want to be doing perfect scenario will be a 90-foot boat and fishing all year alive
40:11at everything and that's it daniel's got 120 000 pounds left on his cucumber quota for the season
40:20every pound he can catch gets him that much closer to his dream i just got to work hard and make as much
40:27money as i can to help get another boat so just gotta fish
40:38after hauling for over 24 hours straight ron curtis and his crew have run out of time
40:45we got a head to land there now because the weather is picking up got no other choice on the
40:49head to land what we got cucumbers is a fair weather fishery so you get any amount of wind or
40:54swell and you really can't fish at all because the drag is so slight you know it's just off the
40:59bottom and you're not you're just not fishing so with that we fish for a day around 26 hours we got
41:07fishing so we came up with around 50 000 pounds of cucumbers which is not bad i mean you know i know
41:12that they're there anyway so it's not a not a failed trip but it's not what we were anticipating when we
41:18said sale we still managed to scrape up a trip out of it well you're going to chase wherever the money
41:38is like if they comes up with something that you can make a dollar you're going to try it if you can
41:42you got no other choice he wants to make a living at this you can't have no downtime i got a girlfriend
41:48and i got two little babies home waiting for me while they're not babies no more but they're growing
41:52up it's hard you miss a lot of things right you got to give them a life that you never had right
42:04good three brand new alternators going in everything good yeah as long as he stays in between those
42:11angles you see that press come on we got a zero bycatch towers on our scallop fishery his majesty's
42:19canadian ship windsor is one of canada's four victoria-class submarine shot in port ben put a
42:24blow in port these submarines support maritime law enforcement this is a very challenging guy
42:34roger on the rack this is amazing
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