The same year Season 4 of "Deadliest Catch" was broadcast, and after the F/V Maverick had left the show, Maverick co-owners Rick and Donna Quashnick were fined $1,500 when an Alaska wildlife trooper found undersized bairdi tanner crab in its catch. Rick pleaded no contest to the charges and said out of the thousands of pounds of crab on the boat, only a few crabs under the mandated 5.5 inches were found. "It was an accident. It was just a mistake that my crew made, and we took care of it," Rick said (via The Seattle Times).
In 2012, "Deadliest Catch" fans were alarmed to read a fishing boat also named F/V Maverick sank in a collision with the F/V Viking. One person was killed, according to Fishery Nation. That 40-foot F/V Maverick was based in LaPush, Washington — not Astoria, Oregon like the much larger F/V Maverick owned by the Quashnicks — and had no connection to the Maverick featured on the reality TV show.
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