![]() ![]() ![]() Will we see the entire Hillstrand crew on the Time Bandit for Deadliest Catch Season 17? Johnathan Hillstrand owned the Time Bandit with his two brothers. So, if they’re going to be out fishing anyway, why not use the Time Bandit?ĭeadliest Catch and the Hillstrands: Brotherly Reunion? But the $2,888,888 price was a little too high for buyers. What makes season 17 different? Johnathan said while he and Jake are friends, “it was sort of hard not to micromanage.”Īs Deadliest Catch fans know, the Hillstrand brothers put the Time Bandit up for sale. Johnathan Hillstrand already said bringing back the Time Bandit for Deadliest Catch Season 16 was too much of a monetary hassle, which is why he was on Saga with Jake Anderson. Johnathan Hillstrand has been hinting at the return of the Time Bandit on Twitter, Tweeting pictures of the ship and even posting pictures of his wife working on the Time Bandit. However, fans may be getting what they want for Deadliest Catch Season 17. The boat is practically a character itself, embodying a rebellious black pirate ship. ![]() While fans were happy to see the return of Johnathan Hillstrand on Deadliest Catch, fans were also heartbroken by the disappearance of the Hillstrand boat the Time Bandit. It will be interesting to see how Johnathan will work with Sig Hansen’s strategy and how they will all work as a team. Sig says, “what we need are legends” in order for the crab fishing industry to survive. ![]() This is where Johnathan Hillstrand comes in. Johnathan Hillstrand not only knows how to retain fishing quotas but can keep the crab population sustainable, something that illegal fishermen don’t prioritize.Īs far as the pandemic is concerned, Deadliest Catch Northwestern Captain Sig Hansen knows that he needs the best in order to save the crab fishing industry. But the virus hasn’t been the only factor that destroyed crab fishing quotas - the crew also struggles with illegal fishing from the Russians. When the network came calling for the captain to rejoin Deadliest Catch, they wanted him to take up sail with “Wild” Bill Wichrowski aboard the Summer Bay.Deadliest Catch Spoilers: Can Johnathan Hillstrand Restore Crab Quotas After Covid?įrom Deadliest Catch Season 17 spoilers, we know that the pandemic has taken a major hit on the fishing industry. Saga wasn’t Discovery’s first choice, however. The infamous boat, which has the honor of a Wikipedia page, apparently came with too much “red tape.” So now, Hillstrand fishes alongside Jake Anderson aboard his vessel, Saga. While Hillstrand is back for the Catch, he’s no longer Captain of the Time Bandit. “Captain’s shares, they’ll take ‘em from you if you don’t use them every couple of years, so I had to come back out,” he clarifies. So why not also film with Deadliest Catch and ensure his shares? In short: Hillstrand would still be out on the ocean anyway. In fact, it’s as old as any sort of fishing, as the work has existed long before laws and regulations.Īnother facet to his return, then, hinges on retaining a fishing quota known as “captain’s shares,” Stuff cites. Hillstrand knows illegal fishing isn’t anything new. ‘Deadliest Catch’ Captain Hillstrand: ‘Illegal fishing is a problem that has been ongoing for several years’ And Hillstrand can’t sit idly by and watch the profession – and ecosystem – be destroyed. But the Russians, he says, “They were doing all that” illegally. Hillstrand and his fellow Deadliest Catch crabbers don’t keep female crabs. “We try to keep it sustainable to where we can fish every year.” “They’re actually annihilating those crab stocks because they’re not managing it properly, making it sustainable like we do,” he states. And it all has to do with illegal Russian crabbing. Or, at least, he does after talking about it out loud and giving it some hard thought. The good captain speaks with Parkes from Seattle, Washington amidst a hellish connection.īut Hillstrand does know why he came back. “It (being at sea) felt like the longest 30 days.”īy comparison, “This 30 days at home doing isolation is a cakewalk” he says. “I don’t know,” Hillstrand replies after quite a bit of back and forth with Stuff Entertainment‘s Melenie Parkes. ![]()
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