PAGE 8 • TV
THE BULLETIN • MARCH 25 - 31, 2021
What’s Available NOW On
“Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet:
Season 7” (Available now)
“Dr. K’s Exotic Animal ER:
Seasons 1-8” (Available now)
The doctor is in as an elderly
porcupine, two stubborrn muskoxen,
an overweight but cagey bison due
for a physical and a flight to relocate
two bear cubs are among the cases
facing all-species veterinarian Dr.
Michelle Oakley in the seventh
season of this National Geographic
unscripted series.
Deerfield Beach, Fla., veterinarian
Dr. Susan Kelleher is front and
center of this 2014-19 NatGeo Wild
series that follows her and her staff
at the Broward Avian and Exotic
Animal Hospital as they attend to
species ranging from pot-bellied pigs,
monkeys and chinchillas to snakes,
tortoises and parakeets.
BY GEORGE DICKIE
“Heartland Docs, DVM:
Season 2” (Available now)
The most recent season of this
NatGeo Wild unscripted series
continues to follow the daily lives
of Drs. Erin and Ben Schroeder and
their teenage sons Charlie and Chase,
and also introduces a new mascot for
their Nebraska veterinary clinic in a
pygmy fainting goat named Veronica.
“Pickle and Peanut: Seasons
1-2” (Available now)
Both seasons of this 2015-18 Disney
XD animated series that follows the
adventures of an anthropomorphic
pickle named Pickle and his pal Peanut
come to the streaming service with Jon
Heder (“Napoleon Dynamite”) and
Johnny Pemberton (“Son of Zorn”)
voicing the title characters. Guest
voices include Paul Reubens, Yvette
Nicole Brown and Tony Hale.
Dave Carraro
OF ‘WICKED TUNA’ ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
How much did the pandemic change
the way you did things?
It was completely different. With the
pandemic, as we all know, many
businesses were either shut down or
at limited capacity, and same goes for
the restaurants. And our fish goes to
restaurants, and the restaurants were
either closed or it’s limited capacity.
Therefore, there was not a very large
demand for bluefin tuna, therefore the
buyers were only taking fish on a trial
basis and it was only three days a
week and we did not start at the official
opening of the year on June 1st because
the pandemic was just getting going
and they said, “Hey, we’re gonna put it
off and we’ll start taking fish from you
three days a week in the middle of July.”
So we didn’t get to fish every day. You
know, it was three days a week and
that was it. If we fished every day and
everybody went out and caught fish, the
market would be flooded instantly.
So in the past when you were
getting $18-20 a pound, what are
you getting now?
A lot less, so it was a struggle for all of
us. Not only were we getting less but
we were only allowed to fish three days
a week. So if we were lucky and we
caught three fish for that week at a lesser
price, we were able to make ends meet.
But you know, there are times where
you can go three days without a fish
and then you’ve got to wait for the next
week, so it was something we were not
used to. And at a lower price, so we had
to watch our spending. You know, we
had to travel slower and burn less fuel,
we had to fish closer. We just had to
really keep our expenses at bay.