Halibut fishermen in Alaska used to defy storms, exhaustion and good judgment. That's because they could only fish in these handful of 24-hour periods. It was called the derby, and the derby made fishing the deadliest job in America.
Today on the show, the economic fix that made fishing safer. And why a lot of people hate it.
On the show we introduce you to David Fry, the owner of the Realist halibut boat.
Note: This episode contains explicit language.
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