Lobstermen: Jeopardy at Sea is a multi-part documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

/reality show on the Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel

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 chronicling the fall 2005 North Atlantic lobster fishing

Lobster fishing

Lobster fishing, sometimes called lobstering, is the commercial or recreational harvesting of marine lobsters, spiny lobsters or crayfish.-Lobster tools and technology:...

 season aboard several fishing boats. Created and narrated by Thom Beers

Thom Beers

Thom Beers is an American television producer and narrator/ voice over artist. Beers, a former producer and executive with Turner Broadcasting and Paramount Syndicated Television, has produced over 40 television series since the mid 1990s, most under the banner of his own production company formed...

, it is heavily patterned after and can be considered a spin-off

Spin-off (media)

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 of fellow Discovery Channel program Deadliest Catch

Deadliest Catch

Deadliest Catch is a documentary/reality television series produced by Original Productions for the Discovery Channel. It portrays the real life events aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and C. opilio crab fishing seasons.The Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor,...

, which deals with Alaskan crab fishing

Alaskan king crab fishing

Alaskan king crab fishing is carried out during the winter months in the waters off the coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. The commercial harvest is performed during a very short season, and the catch is shipped worldwide...

. Lobstermen debuted on June 20, 2006, one week after the finale of season two of Deadliest Catch in its former time slot.

The central story of the show is the struggle of first-year captain Scott Christopher and his boat, Dragon Lady, in their attempt to gain a foothold on the hotly contested fishing grounds of the Georges Bank

Georges Bank

Georges Bank is a large elevated area of the sea floor which separates the Gulf of Maine from the Atlantic Ocean and is situated between Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia ....

. In 2007, Lobster Wars

Lobster Wars

Lobster Wars, also known as Deadliest Catch: Lobstermen in the United Kingdom, is a documentary television series on the Discovery Channel. It documents men and one woman fishing for lobsters off the Georges Bank near the northeastern coast of North America...

debuted, following not only Dragon Lady, but also four other lobster boats.

Fishing vessels

The show was filmed aboard five fishing vessels.

Fishing Vessel	Captain	Notes
Capt. Bligh	Keith Chasse
Courtney Elizabeth	Tim Handrigan
Debbie Ann	Norbert Stamps
Direction	Grant Moore
Excalibur	Joel Hovanesian	Fishing trawler

Episodes

Six episodes of the show were produced.

• Episode 1: "Land of the Giants"
• Episode 2: "The Draggers are Coming"
• Episode 3: "Cat and Mouse Game"
• Episode 4: "Breaking Point"
• Episode 5: "Here Come the Crabs"
• Episode 6: "Storm of the Season"

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