He lived with severe pain and fisherman claws (damage to the hands that causes them to curl up). He got surgery for it, but he also had a bunch of other injuries that he had suffered from where he'd had hands caught in crushing devices had had extremities impaled by various hooks.
He was also looking at it in a severe car accident a few years ago.
Most of these guys make pretty good money, from reading up on the show. On average a deck hand is making a thousand bucks or more a day on the larger boats with bigger quotas, and they supposedly are working two key seasons.
But it does take a toll on these guys and a lot of them wreck themselves in making a lot of money in fewer days.
It is better then when the whole system worked on the derby though.
One fisherman who did a column for Cracked did talk about the rampant drug use that happens with these fisherman that's glossed over. No one can work 24 to 40 hours of hard physical labor without some help.
And a lot of these guys go home with a bunch of money and a lot of pain.
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