How To Be An Alaskan Fisherman by Corey Arnold

05/13/07  Although the F/V Rollo isn’t featured in Deadliest Catch season 3, her crew remains the favorite of plenty of fans. One of the deckhands–Corey Arnold–is probably more known for his striking photography then his appearance on Deadliest Catch, season 2.  He’s written a very creative article about his story of how he became a Bering sea crab fisherman and he also [...]

Global Food Alaska

…Global Food Alaska - 2007 is designed to welcome commercial and institutional buyers, investors and supply chain partners to meet Alaska’s commercial harvesters and producers, of food, beverage and bio products. Producers and harvesters will be represented from remote regions such as Kodiak, St. Paul (Bering Sea) Delta, St.Mary’s on the Yukon River, Unalaska (Dutch [...]

Recipe for Ragnhild’s Cheesecake!

FARWEST LEADER CHEESECAKE
*About 2 cups graham crackers crumbs
* 1 1/3 cube of margarin (melted)
* Mix together in frying pan (I use a round spring form — big size — and cover the bottom with the graham cracker mixure and let it cool)
* Make one small package of raspberry jello (2 cups of water) cool
* Make [...]

Discovery’s Livechat with Sig Hansen of the F/V Northwestern

Discovery: Welcome to this week’s Deadliest Catch chat. Our guest is Sig Hansen, captain aboard the Northwestern. He’s a fourth generation crab fisherman and has been a captain for almost 20 years. Ask Sig about running his family-owned vessel and this season of crab fishing.
Sig: Glad to be home, and able to participate!
Kccomment: Now that [...]

Production Diary #6 from Doug Stanley

Entry #6   Redemption 
Today was a day of redemption aboard the Time Bandit.  Each member of the crew had been suffering due to the poor fishing.  I have been watching each of them closely as several days of bad luck have come and gone. When we are not filming the crews in their best light, like [...]

DUTCH HARBOR, AK, The Starting Point for the Deadliest Catch Fishermen

When viewing Deadliest Catch we always see the docks and an occasional view of the Russian Orthodox church, so here are a few tidbits about the little city that houses the busiest internationl fishing port in the United States…UNALASKA/DUTCH HARBOR ALASKA
Remote Aleutian town is key to Bering Sea fishing
By Leon Unruh / Alaska.com
 Unalaska, Alaska, [...]

Seattle’s Fisherman Memorial

 ”Dedicated to promoting safety in the fishing fleets and easing the burdens of the families and friends of fishermen/women lost at sea… ” May 6th is the first Sunday of the month and is therefore the yearly memorial service for those who’ve perished at sea. Many of the fishermen and crews we see on Deadliest [...]

Discovery’s Livechat with Captain Johnathan Hillstrand of the F/V Timebandit

Discovery: Welcome this week’s Deadliest Catch chat. Our guest is Johnathan Hillstrand, captain aboard the Time Bandit, his family built, owned and operated vessel. This season, the Time Bandit was involved in a daring rescue. Ask Johnathan about the rescue and this season of fishing now.
Johnathan Hillstrand: Hi, it’s nice to be here, I look [...]