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Captain Dave from Wicked Tuna | Chronicle – WCVB Home
Captain Dave from Wicked Tuna | Chronicle – WCVB Home.
Captain Dave Marciano explains how the federal government’s “catch shares” program effectively squeezes out smaller-scale operators like himself, whose methods are, ironically, more conservative and less impacting to the environment.
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Wicked Tuna Breakdown – S1/EP. 8
Happy Memorial Day! An unnamed US soldier in Afghanistan throws his “tails up”. Photo courtesy Susan Seger Corsbie.
5/25/12 – CAMBRIDGE, MATTHEW J. WEBSTER
NatGeo has signed on for another season of Wicked Tuna! The news was leaked just a few hours ago, via Facebook, by F/V Bounty Hunter mate Scott Ferreiro. No surprise to this observer, considering the show’s globe-sweeping impact as pictured above, but still very impressive considering the shared time slot with AMC’s Mad Men.
Episode 8 should remind avid viewers that Wicked Tuna is produced within the limits of the reality format: since it’s impossible to actually portray everything that takes place over the course of a commercial fishing season, Wicked Tuna unfolds in non-linear “TV time”. The goal is to evoke the spirit of the work and leave out the boring stuff.
Photo courtesy Ali Kat.
As such, Episode 8 begins two weeks before the end of giant tuna season. I seem to remember a previous installment being set two days before, but who cares? Paul Hebert, formerly of the Tuna.com, has moved over to Captain Bill Monte’s Bounty Hunter, and Monte seems to be falling prey to every good fisherman’s tragic flaw — superstition. Monte’s hoping Hebert has some inside dope, or esoteric technique, that will improve the crew’s fortunes. Unfortunately not.
“Tuna-ing is 90 percent luck,” says Hebert.
“I think the prick just likes to hear himself talk,” says his new mate, Scott Ferreiro.
Over on the Hard Merchandise, baldhead skipper Dave Marciano’s got Jason Muenzner, his first mate and nephew, under the microscope.
“I dropped the anchor a million times, but with Marciano looking over you, it’s intimidating,” says Muenzner.
Monk Mask Replica – Jason Muenzner of the Hard Merchandise.
It all comes good later, when Muenzner reels in a 500-pounder, as expertly as you please. Can we get the Hard Merchandise some classic hard rock for background music in Season 2? Maybe Queen’s Big Bottom Girls? Dave likes that one.
WICKED TUNA QUOTE OF THE WEEK – S1/EP. 8
“We might go on a streak, we might get a bunch of zeroes. But I know Dave will put us on that meat. I’m always coming out ahead when I’m fishing with him, because the knowledge he gives me is priceless.”
-Jason Muenzner, first mate of the F/V Hard Merchandise
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