Fish Species
Jobs
Seafood Market
Fish Harvesting
Crab Fishing
100
The process a crab goes through to shed its shell.
What is molting?
100
The city in Washington where most fishing company headquarters are located.
What is Seattle?
100
The most fish harvested in Alaskan waters is from this Sea.
What is the Bering Sea?
100
Another name for the fish allowed to be caught.
What is quota?
100
TV show about crab fishing in the Bering Sea.
What is the Deadliest Catch?
200
This mammal eats halibut and sablefish as the are being pulled up on a longline.
What is a whale?
200
You can get a college degree in fisheries any of these places within Alaska.
What is Fairbanks, Juneau, Anchorage, Ketchikan, Sitka, Kodiak, Dillingham
200
The fishing port in Alaska where the most fish are delivered.
What is Dutch Harbor?
200
The fish accidentally caught while trying to catch a certain species of fish.
What is bycatch?
200
The average length of a crab boat.
What is 120 feet?
300
Another name for sablefish.
What is black cod?
300
Over 70,000 jobs
What are the number of seafood jobs in Alaska?
300
The approximate value of one king crab to a fisherman.
What is $56?
300
A program to help small rural communities along the Western coast of Alaska participate in the Bering Sea fishing industry.
What is Community Development Quota (CDQ)?
300
Fishing season is October through May.
What is the crab fishing season?
400
The fish used to make a McDonalds filet o fish sandwich.
What is pollock?
400
A vocational training center in Seward that houses the Alaska Maritime Training Center.
What is AVTEC?
400
The value of one king crab in the grocery store.
What is $120?
400
A new way system of catching all the quota that allows for for longer, safer seasons.
What is Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ)?
400
The number of crew are on each boat.
What is 6-7 people?
500
The three species of king crab in Alaska
What is red, blue, and golden king crab?
500
A crew member on the fishing vessel who is working for the government keeping track of the amount and species of fish harvested.
What is an observer?
500
The largest commercially harvested species in Alaska.
What is pollock
500
The government agency that manages and monitors the fishing industry.
What is the National Marine Fisheries Service?
500
How the fishing crew get paid, as a percentage of the total value of the catch.
What is a ‘crew share’?