Last year's season cut my income by 25 percent, and if you cut it by half again, I'm not going to be able to pay my bills.

In the short-term, the obvious point is that the amount and level of income-based assistance makes a difference.

Cancer can have an enormous impact on someone's income and many people don't realise that they are eligible for financial help from the Government.

If I don't fish for a season, I'm dead. I'm history. It scares the heck out of me. I'm 56. I've done this my whole life. I don't know what else I would do.

It puts us in the poor house. I'm still optimistic that we can come out with something along the lines of last year's situation, but frankly National Marine Fishery Service has really dropped the ball on this.

The market softens now because they anticipate those guys going fishing and they anticipate cheaper crabs on the market really soon. It takes about two weeks to mop up the majority of that fishery up there, so hopefully when that starts tapering off we can afford to go fishing again.