Discovery Channel documentary series features three Anacortes fishermen
ANACORTES — Imagine sliding on an icy, storm-tossed deck of a fishing boat, trying to pull fully loaded crab pots, each weighing 2,000 pounds, from the depths of the Bering Sea.
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