200,000 US Dollars for five days.
When the worker who got the news returned to the crowd and announced the amount, the pier instantly erupted in an uproar.
Everyone present was a veteran fisherman who had been around fishing boats and piers practically since childhood. With just a scrap of information, they could estimate the size of a catch.
The *River Beach* had a crew of 30. Hope was just one of the deckhands, and if he could get 200,000 US Dollars, then the other crew members would be getting roughly the same.
Thirty people times 200,000 is 6,000,000. According to the 50/50 rule for crabbing boats, after deducting other expenses, the *River Beach*'s owners must have earned at least 5 million.
Good God.
Converting that to the quantity of snow crabs, the purchase price for snow crab on the day the *River Beach* set sail was 14 US Dollars a pound. That meant they must have caught at least 500 tons of snow crabs on this trip.
Damn it!
Five hundred tons of snow crab.
