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Oregon Living Home Grown Crabbing the Oregon Coast A generations-old tradition, crabbing is Oregon’s maritime bounty, Corey Rock’s “cowboy” lifestyle and the tastiest catch for these four recipes Crab Recipes by Cathy Carroll photos by Joni Kabana >> The ringtone on Corey Rock’s cell phone is “Patience” by Guns N’ Roses, but for this third-generation fisherman in Newport, patience is of little use when it’s crab season. “My father’s a great fisherman, and he always says that in crabbing, there’s the quick and the dead,” says Rock, 38. “There’s only so much crab out there, and they’ll all be caught up. It’s just a matter of who’s going to do it.” An Oregon crabber will bring in an average of 150,000 pounds of Dungeness crab, which wholesales for an average of $2 per pound. The commercial crabbing season begins in December and lasts for three months. The short season breeds long risks. In a typical December along the Oregon coast, waves reach about 12 feet, but at least once a year, swells of 20 feet or higher will threaten crab fishermen, says Rock. “There is a lot of wind. You’re pulling in your gear, securing things on deck, shutting the doors down tight, and you jog into it. You point the bow into the weather at a crawl, enough so you can steer.” But that doesn’t diminish his love for a job that is in his blood. For Rock, the tradition began when his grandfather, Archie Rock, took up fishing on the central Oregon coast after the logging dried up in the Medford area. His father, Joe Rock, followed in his wake, and now three generations of the family have made their living from pulling Dungeness crab from the Oregon coastal waters. “It’s one of the last things where you can wake up in the morning and you have no idea what’s going to happen,” he says. “It’s the last cowboy-ish thing to do.” When the tide is high, Rock steers the Kylie Lynn, a 73-foot shrimp trawler from the Louisiana Gulf Coast that Rock modified for West Coast crabbing, 62 1859 oregon's magazine winter <strong>2010</strong>
“It’s one of the last things where you can wake up in the morning and you have no idea what’s going to happen … It’s the last cowboy-ish thing to do.” Corey Rock, third-generation crab fisherman from Seal Rock 1859 oregon's magazine winter <strong>2010</strong> 63
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