Gooseneck Barnacle Harvesters

Check it out. Hardcore.

Wow. Maybe the DFW doesn't allow take due to safety concerns! (j.k) crazy dudes.

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Wow. Maybe the DFW doesn't allow take due to safety concerns! (j.k) crazy dudes.

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Ben, my guess is that that their niche in the intertidal zone is precarious. Colonies are easily out competed by mussels. They need conditions more specific than mussels. Lower light conditions and can only feed when water is flowing in one direction while mussels just need random water flow. Their only hope is to colonize an an area and hold their ground. I've been doing some research. There is a guy down south who has a permit to harvest them from oil rigs.

Nice find Sharky!
I would say, I've seen a decline of these during my life around our local beaches. I just remember seeing so many at Muir as an example when I was a boy. I would say the same about anenimies.

amazing vid sharky.  love seeing the old world traditions

why do they use a spatula with so narrow tip?  I'd get f'ing spade the size of new hampshire, three wacks, and bone the f' outta there!

What an crazy job! Also interesting to me that they say they are "catching" the barnacles, instead of harvesting.

They sure are salty fishermen though! Its such a bummer that we are not able to catch them in cali, without a special permit!

aloha

Isao

 

I like a little adventure, but will not be doing that.  If I want some of those I will be going to the market. He was hanging upside down like Spiderman.

Wow, very hardcore!  Thanks for sharing.

thanks for sharing, that was really cool, cameron

Thats a very cool video!!  Thanks for sharing this

Shows you just how far a man will go to feed his family.   
Very hard core harvesting, putting your life on the line for your family.

Thanks for the vid.

I met guys in their 20's in Croatia whose hands and arms were crippled from diving/harvesting green lipped mussels. But they drove reaaalllly nice cars.