crabbing

Tangier Island, Virginia, is a community unique on the American landscape. Mapped by John Smith in 1608, settled during the American Revolution, the tiny sliver of mud is home to 470 hardy people who live an isolated and challenging existence, with one foot in the 21st century and another in times long passed. They are separated from their countrymen by the nation's largest estuary, and a twelve-mile boat trip across often tempestuous water--the same water that for generations has made Tangier's fleet of small fishing boats a chief source for the rightly prized Chesapeake Bay blue crab, and has lent the island its claim to fame as the softshell crab capital of the world.

Joe Upton recounts his experiences while commercial fishing for Alaskan king crab in the Bering Sea during the 1971 season.

A young boy gets to know his grandfather better when the two of them spend the day together crabbing.

After Rob's death, his parents and younger sister finally take their boat out crabbing again in an effort to get their lives back to normal.