Posted on July 26, 2007 by opilia
By LEILA KHEIRY
source: Ketchikan Daily News
when three boat captains featured on the Discovery Channel show “The Deadliest Catch” participated in a promotional pub crawl.
Sea Star captain Larry Hendricks gets his shirt autographed by Cornelia Marie skipper Phil Harris during a promotional pub crawl featuring crab fishermen from the Discovery Channel show “The Deadliest Catch.” Kenny [...]
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Posted on July 25, 2007 by opilia
(PressMediaWire) Ketchikan, Alaska - The Aleutian Ballad this week will begin taking visitors along to show them first hand the real life of Alaska’s fishermen. But instead of steaming out to the Bering Sea, the boat will operate in calmer, protected waters near Ketchikan, Alaska.
Aleutian Ballad owner Dave Lethin first conceived the idea 10 years ago [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2007 by opilia
By Cynthia A Kane
Tastes like chicken.
No matter. These Arctic rock stars are coming for the fight, not the bite.
Famous crabbers from “Deadliest Catch,” accustomed to frigid air, deadly work, icy decks and stacked stakes, will visit Sarasota next month to hunt some gator and help some children.
Used to the succulent sweetness of fresh Alaskan king [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2007 by opilia
JAPANESE FIRMS: Alaska fears consolidation would squeeze prices paid for fish.
By WESLEY LOY
wloy@adn.com
Published: July 24, 2007
Last Modified: July 24, 2007 at 01:40 AM
State lawyers have opened an antitrust investigation into the pending merger of two giant Japanese seafood companies with major processing and fishing operations in Alaska.
Officials decided last week to begin the probe, [...]
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Posted on July 24, 2007 by opilia
By Don Kaplan in the New York Post
THE hottest thing on TV is not British ac tors who can speak with an American accent or shows about remembering song lyrics.
It’s red-meat reality shows starring men who have no plans to buy an iPhone and don’t care if Harry Potter dies in the final book.
They drive trucks, [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2007 by opilia
The Crab Broker is proud to sponsor this tour of the Deadliest Catch celebrity captains who ply the dangerous waters of the Bering Sea so that we may enjoy great Alaskan seafood!
Join Captains Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand from the F/V Timebandit, Captain Larry Hendricks from the Sea Star, Captain Phil Harris & sons–Josh and Jake from the F/V [...]
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Posted on July 22, 2007 by opilia
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A ruling by a judge in California could impact all boat owners in Alaska, except the military.
The ruling could mean that thousands of recreational and commercial boat owners will have to get water-pollution permits to discharge deck runoff, bilge water and many other kinds of liquids off their boats.
For more than 30 [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2007 by opilia
By Jessica Turner
GRAYSON- When Jack Hoxie went on a family trip to Alaska he fell in love with the place. After reluctantly coming back to Georgia, Jack found himself a nice, cushy job in Homer, Alaska: working on an oilrig five miles out in the Bering Sea from the end of September to the beginning [...]
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