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Post by tropicbird on Aug 29, 2024 18:40:39 GMT -5
What's the difference between a commercial fisherman and a charter captain? Serious question.
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Post by knotright on Aug 29, 2024 18:59:48 GMT -5
The commercial fisherman pays someone to come on the boat. The charter gets paid to have someone come on his boat.
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Post by klinger on Aug 29, 2024 19:05:07 GMT -5
Charter is recreational and commercial isn't
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Post by tankered on Aug 30, 2024 9:31:49 GMT -5
100s if not 1,000s of pounds?
What do I win?
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Post by Zif on Aug 30, 2024 10:31:22 GMT -5
One is an entertainer, the other is a fisherman.
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Post by tropicbird on Aug 30, 2024 14:23:08 GMT -5
Close, but the real answer is this:
The charter captain gets paid by the day or half day.
The commercial fisherman gets paid by the pound. It doesn't matter how much you market yourself or how far out in front of the camera you hold the fish to make it look bigger, if you don't put pounds on the scale you don't get paid. The fish market doesn't even have to like you, just like your fish!
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Post by Captj on Aug 30, 2024 15:41:13 GMT -5
The charter capt. makes a day's pay before he leaves the dock. Commercial has to put fish on the scale for his pay.
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Post by lemaymiami on Sept 4, 2024 5:46:22 GMT -5
The biggest difference is the rules you operate under in my opinion. As a charterman I'm operating under recreational rules as far as the fish we keep (if any) -and every fish in my skiff belongs to my anglers -not me... and my anglers will decide each day if they want to keep a fish or two - or we'll be entirely doing "catch and release".
When I held a commercial ticket all those years ago, I operated under completely different rules - and lost or gained under market forces always... If I brought in a good catch and was paid a good price - on the following day if the market was filled - I might have to catch twice as many fish - to get the same money... and so it goes..
Additionally, years later, when I made the switch from recreational to guiding.... quite a few things changed. The first surprise was that my insurance company dropped me ("we don't cover that") - the moment I started "carrying passengers for hire" and I had to find commercial insurance (thank you Charter Lakes - been with them since 1996....). Next was to upgrade all of my safety gear (and actually learn why SOLAS flares are far, far better than what most recreational anglers carry...). Lastly any encounter with law enforcers on the water took a different tack - since you were supposed to know better in any situation.... By the way the Coast Guard doesn't care if I ever catch a single fish - but they really do care if I'm operating safely... "carrying passengers for hire"...
Yeah, it's been an education in every direction and not one bit of what just described has anything to do with the daily need to keep your gear in good condition and running down the highway towing a boat 15 to 20,000 miles a year to and from boat ramps, and all the other places you and your skiff will end up each day... "Aren't boats fun?"
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