It's stressful. It's really hard to plan a season and make a business case. The overall mental health of fishers in general, including in our family, has gotten worse because we don't have predictability and reliability. How do we plan our business? How do we plan our income? How do we plan our financial situation throughout the year? How do we plan when to go and not go, especially when our fishing grounds are so far away?
It's a big risk to get our boats ready to go out, spend all that money and invest in our gear when we're not even sure if we're going to be able to fish, so it's definitely a mental health situation.
It's also hard on our kids to never really know what's going on. They're very resilient and they're used to the lifestyle, but it is really tough when all of a sudden dad jumps up from a soccer game and is gone for a couple of weeks because we had no idea and then all of a sudden we have an opening.