“Alaska’s speaker of the House wants an investigation of Wal-Mart sales of Russian crab that’s packaged in a box featuring a vessel that catches U.S. crab in the Bering Sea.

The sales promotion attempts to ride the fame of the F/V Northwestern and its skipper, Sig Hansen, who is featured in “Deadliest Catch,” the reality series broadcast on the Discovery Channel.” This was the report today from the Seattle Times.

This reaction from the Alaska Speaker of the house stems from an exclusive story published in the Seattle Times on Tuesday, November 15, 2007.

For fans of this site, the real surprise was the story of Captain Sig Hansen also reported in the Seattle Times. Our boats captain, Phil Harris was quoted in this story.

Phil Harris, owner of the F/V Cornelia Marie of Kodiak, Alaska, also turned down the Global Fishing marketing pitch. (more…)

Will Capt. Phil make it back for the Pacific Marine Expo?  We sure hope so.  Hope some of you westcoasters can stop on over! (Pacific Marine Info) 

Deadliest Catch Captain’s Roundtable
Friday, November 16, 2007
2:30 pm
Keynote Area – Show Floor

Join us as we bring the hardworking, fun-loving Captains from Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch to the PME Roundtable.  Listen as they share stories of their harrowing ordeals and their lighter times on the Bering Sea.  Audience members will have ample opportunity to ask the Captains those questions they have always wanted answers to.  Of course, as you know, these are commercial fishermen and this is crab season, so if they have not captured their quota by show time, the number of Captains may be limited.

Invited: 
Capt. Sig Hansen, F/V Northwestern
Capt. Phil Harris, F/V Cornelia Marie
Capts Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand, F/V Time Bandit
Capt. Keith Colburn, F/V The Wizard
Capt. Greg Moncrief, F/V Farwest Leader
Capt. Blake Painter, F/V Maverick