Danny Jones

And we're like, this is fucking the twilight zone, dude.

And then they started telling us more and more about like what they do.

This is it.

Yeah.

This is the first episode, the gates of hell.

This is Shane Lee.

Um,

So we're like, we're asking these guys about like, what are you like?

You're fishermen.

But like, explain to me, how does this thing how does this work?

And they were all pissed off about, oh, we're getting screwed by the boat owners and these IFQs and we don't make any money.

And, you know, we're like, dude, there might be a story here.

So we started interviewing more people.

We eventually interviewed the people who own the boats and own the fish houses.

So, like, Madeira Beach is the – Johns Pass, Florida is the grouper capital of the world.

There's more grouper caught there than anywhere in the world.

And the way it works is before 2007 –

There was a quota system where it was like for red snapper, it was like three million pounds per year are allowed to be caught in this area.

Right.

So it was like derby fishing.