Don't believe the Discovery Channel show, "Deadliest Catch."
The most dangerous fishing is done off New England and the Mid-Atlantic states for groundfish and scallops, not in Alaska's Bering Sea for crabs, according to a report by the federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Of those fisheries for which average annual fatality rates could be calculated," two DCD researchers reported earlier this summer, "the Northeast multispecies groundfishery had the highest rate, 600 deaths per 100,000 full-time employees, followed by the Atlantic scallop fleet, including the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, 425 deaths per 100,000 full-time employees.
The Bering Sea Aleutian Island crabfishery over the same period had a death rate of 260 per 100,000 full-time employees.
The figures covered the period 2000 to 2009.
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