1960S KODIAK ALASKA KING CRAB FISHING INDUSTRY AND EXPORT XD10944
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This 1960s color travelogue film takes place in the historic fishing town of Kodiak, Alaska and highlights the town’s famous king crab fishing industry. Filmed in cooperation with the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce and the Fishing Industry in the Kodiak Region, the film depicts all aspects of the king crab fishing industry from the fisherman braving harsh winter seas to fish the crab to the storage, canning, and shipment of the crab to the rest of the United States.
Aerial view of Kodiak (0:23). View of Kodiak and harbor from mountain peak (0:47). Holy Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral, Angelus bell rings (0:54). Winding commercial road of Kodiak (1:24). Alitak Cannery (1:31). Modern Kodiak post office and courthouse, Maine Street (1:43). Sign for Alaska Department of Fish and Game: King Crab Research (1:51). Marine biologist from Alaska Department of Fish and Game in deep conversation with crab fisherman (1:55). Close-up king crabs mating (2:02). Close-up king crab’s outer shell, anatomy (2:43). Shedding old shell (2:59). Close-up comparison baby king crabs, adult king crabs (4:34). Snow covered mountain peaks (4:53). Seagulls struggle against strong winds, frigid water (5:04). Small fishing ship fighting against choppy, icy water (5:17). Fishing fleet dormant in harbor, frozen over waiting for storm to end (5:39). Boat pulls into harbor, mast covered in ice (6:07). Fishing method: trolling, fisherman cast and drag net across ocean floor (6:19). Crab pots, colorful buoys in Alitak Bay mark position of crab pots (6:51). Men working the deck of boat scoop round pot onto boat, unload crabs into salt water tank (7:33). Square pot pulled onto ship (8:14). Salted bullheads, sole, flounder, cod, salmon heads stuffed into bait bags (8:32). View of snow-covered mountains (9:13). Sun peaks over mountains and illuminates floating ice (9:26). Smaller fishing boat enters Lazy Bay, crab stored in wire-cage towed alongside vessel (9:46). Aerial view of fisherman unloading crab into salt-water tender that can hold up to 6500 crabs, throw females and under-grown males back into sea (10:34). Captain prepares boat to pull back out into wintery seas (11:41). Montage of clips choppy seas, boat churns and deck fills with water (11:46). Aerial view of a Kodiak cannery (12:26). Container overflowing with king crabs offloaded by mechanized crane, weighed (12:46). Dock men wheel crabs away to holding tanks on cannery pier (12:59). Crabs delivered to cannery from tanks (13:25). Shelling crabs: large stainless steel basket of crabs is removed from boiling water (13:31). Meat blown from legs, claws by water pressure machine on conveyor belt (14:13). Women sort crab meat (14:32). Female factory workers stuff meat into cans (14:38). Close-up of red gloves stuffing pink crab meat into can (15:05). Automatic machine vacuum seals cans (15:09). Finished cans rolled into basket of cold water (15:31). Filled basket placed by two workers into retort for cooking (15:48). Shining, storage of frozen crab meat in the shell (16:20). Close-up of washing exterior shell (16:46). Rubber bands bind crab’s legs (17:10). Loaded racks of shells loaded into freezing room (17:27). San Juan Fishing & Packing Co. packaging, Wakefield’s, Deming’s King Crab other packaging examples, recipe books (18:24). Finished products loaded by crane onto steam ships (19:25). Steamship sails off (19:41). Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA) C-54 Skymaster loaded with crab shipment (19:46). Camera pans aerial view of Kodiak and harbor (20:17). Crowds at Kodiak Crab Festival: specialty foods, free crab boat rides, kids with balloons (20:29). Parachute jump from seaplane (21:15). Scuba diver gathers king crabs for shelling competition (22:04). Men and women compete in crab shelling competition (22:16). Coronation ball: young women dressed in 1960s gowns; festival queen receives crown made of king crab shell (22:54). Official tasters taste and judge the crab dishes at festival banquet (23:29). Rainbow over Kodiak (24:29).
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What a timely upload. I'm from AK and there's some crab drama going on
The missing crabs
@@bok.. correct
Seen they banned this season
@@ThommyofThenn anyone have any idea what happened to them. Fraud or like die off?
@@bok.. not sure in this case, but several times in the past, the Japanese and Russians have "accidentally" crossed into US waters to illegally fish. Obviously this isn't reported but even then I don't think they could over fish that much.No, I'm thinking this is a mix of illegal fishing AND habitat loss perhaps. Not a biologist so if anyone has a better explanation I would really appreciate more info
I lived at Kodiak from 1961 to 1963 when my dad was stationed at the Navy base. I remember the King Crab Festival and the scuba divers diving in the harbor for king crab.
I actually started fishing for Deep Sea Fisheries, the guy that owned the boat they are talking about. When I started working the guy who owned it was in his 80s. But the logo for the company was the old deep sea.
It cool to see the first square pots and how they were just made out of curved rebar and not steel solid steel tube.
I wish I could have caught crab that big and plentiful... would be rich rich rich lol
Can not believe they glazed the legs in the box..
San Jaun Packing company is now the Cargo terminals in seattle.
Ocean Beauty is Still around and have combined with Icicle Seafoods, they still have a offices around fishermans terminal in Seattle and have lots of plants but do not process crab any longer.
I would love to see a record of the recipes they are making! Nothing like eating king crab right out the ocean :D Think I am one the last few who have gotten to do it.
I retired from Commercial pot fishing in 2022.
Great film of yesteryear!!! I hope the crab population returns, and isn't gone for good!! 💫
Love those purple spiders👍👍👍👍
I very interesting episode of the life and how they catch the Alaska king Crab around Kodak Island we used to eat Alaska King Crab in the late 60s. when it was cheap tastes real good
My coworker just got back from Alaska and we were watching her slide show when I saw the notification for this!
Love checking out history through these videos - thank you!👍👍👍👍
No you don't.
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Small boats and really huge crabs!
Fantastic as always. Thanks for the hours of history-nerd-out you've provided. It's both incredible and perhaps alarming that many of the ships in this video are still in operation today. I think I saw the Northwestern :P (very tongue in cheek)
I have to say it's the film aesthetic that does it for me: faded prints (though this one seems pretty well preserved), pops, blerps, cuts and jumps, roving threads; the unhurried narration over classic production library music. And you learn something along the way.
Good lunch for my table at anytime and its all good place for fishing at anytime for other meats as well
Sure wish they'd put some info in when they upload these videos. Like when was it filmed? All I can be sure of is it's pre-1964.
I read that snow crab season was cancelled this year due to the unexplained disappearance of BILLIONS of crabs.
Damn russians.....always coming over poaching the crabs....
I heard they cacelled the snow crab season this year due to lack of crabs.
Completely wiped out.
The holocaust of crabs...
They are in a world of shit at the moment
lived in Juneau in the 60s ...dad worked at the glass shop ,me food village super Market