Reply #1: I can't speak for all Alaskans, of course,

[Blue_In_AK]

but we love those shows here in our home. Ice Road Truckers, Tougher in Alaska, all of them. We watch all the National Geographic specials about Alaska, Discovery Channel, whatever. I've lived here for 34 years, but I still love to see shows about Alaska on TV. My brother used to own a bakery down in Homer, and the boyfriend of his employee was a deck hand on one of the boats in the first season of Deadliest Catch.

I don't know much about the crab fishery, so I can't say if they're overfishing. I do believe that the pollack trawlers are bad news, though, because they waste a huge amount of king salmon bycatch which hurts the commercial and subsistence fishermen along the rivers on the West Coast.