Season 8 · Episode 2 — Turf War
With the fleet split, a tale of two fisheries emerges. On the Blue grounds, a captains' bet has the boats jockeying for position. On the Red grounds, a returning veteran quickly proves his worth, while another boat copes with a fallen deckhand.
Season 8 episodes
E1A slashed crab quota has captains reeling before the boats hit the water. With the fleet set to fight over half the catch, each skipper is…
E2With the fleet split, a tale of two fisheries emerges. On the Blue grounds, a captains' bet has the boats jockeying for position. On the Re…
E3As the fleet grinds through injuries and mental mistakes, the Bering Sea exposes soft spots and weak links in each crew. While the skippers…
E4Halfway through the King crab gauntlet, the beaten-down crews must dig deep to get over the midseason hump. As the crab counts dwindle and…
E5Past the halfway point of the King Crab season, man and machine alike show signs of wear under the brutal hand of the Bering Sea. While rep…
E6As king crab season nears the finish line, the crew of The Wizard faces a life or death situation as a deckhand collapses and struggles to…
E7In a scramble to help their collapsed greenhorn, the Wizard crew calls in a Coast Guard helicopter. For the rest of the fleet, it's a race…
E8In the aftermath of an arctic hurricane, the fleet struggles to reach the finish line of a brutal king crab season. Poor fishing and quarre…
E9It's winter in Dutch Harbor and the fleet prepares to hunt Opilio crab. The season looks promising with the quota up and the price high, bu…
E10With unrelenting northerly winds bearing down on the fleet, every skipper steels himself for battle with the descending polar ice pack. And…
E11Across the fleet, captains battle the descending polar ice pack to save their pots, and it's a losing war. The Northwestern and Wizard stru…
E12The polar ice pack invades the opilio crab grounds, forcing the captains to make a decision: grab their gear and run, or keep fishing and f…
E13The ice pack has a choke hold on the Bering Sea opilio grounds. Nearly iced up, captains across the fleet must make the call to stay or go.…
E14One of the worst icing events in history recedes making it possible for some of the boats to return. One boat suffers a total blackout whil…
E15Two brothers find themselves in the same dire situation that sunk their father's boat. After a midseason hiatus, the fleet returns to the B…
E16In this special two-hour close to a merciless opilio season, a veteran deckhand pays for a mistake in flesh. Then in the final hours some m…