TVI Events Announces the Fish & Chips Showdown to be hosted by Captain Sig Hansen of the F/V Northwestern
Join Captain Sig of Deadliest Catch at the Tables and on the Water in the World’s First Hybrid, High Stakes Fishing & Poker Tournament
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 11, 2009 – Nassau, Bahamas
TVI Events, the producers of the inaugural Fish & Chips Showdown to be held May 11 – 16, 2010 in Nassau, Bahamas is excited to announce that Captain Sig Hansen of the F/V Northwestern and star of Deadliest Catch will be hosting the 2010 Fish & Chips Showdown. Joining Sig will be his brother, Edgar Hansen, Deck Boss of the F/V Northwestern, along with the girls of PlayerXT, who will be co-hosting the event and competing in the Bullz-Eye.com Bikini Model Search Finals. Fish & Chips Showdown participants will have the opportunity to win a piece of the $250,000 cash purse and spend 5 days in the Bahamas alongside Sig and Edgar. Limited tickets are still available, so visit www.thefishandchips.com to sign up.
The Fish & Chips Showdown will be based out of the stunning, four-star Sheraton Nassau Beach Resort. The poker tournament will be held at the adjoining Crystal Palace Casino, with the final table at the world famous Nygård Cay Resort. The fishing tournament will be staged from the nearby Paradise Island Marina. Competitors will battle it out on the tables and on the water for $250,000. Payouts include purses of $170,000 for the poker tournament, $70,000 for the fishing tournament and an additional $10,000 to the overall Fish & Chips Champion. Additionally, the winner of the fishing tournament will qualify for the 2010 IFGA Offshore Fishing World Championships.
Participant packages are available covering five nights accommodation at the Sheraton, buy-ins to both tournaments, chartered and catered boats for the fishing tournament, transportation between airport and hotel, catered food during poker play and now, final table poker action at the world famous Nygård Cay. Packages are available for those who wish to provide their own boat or seek other accommodations as well.
The Fish & Chips Showdown is currently open to 170 participants, with limited tickets remaining. To participate, visit www.thefishandchips.com.
Texas Hold’ Em + Big Game Fishing + Bikini Models + Nygård Cay + $250,000 up for grabs + Captain Sig Hansen + … = The Ultimate Experience!
About TVI Events
TVI Events is an innovative global event management company. TVI Events provides clients and event participants with full-service event management, including early-stage event planning, venue and vendor contracting, attendee registration, professional hosting and all related services. In addition to hosting third party events, TVI Events hosts proprietary destination events, including the annual Fish & Chips hybrid poker and fishing tournament.
About Captain Sig Hansen of the F/V Northwestern
Captain Sig Hansen began fishing at age 14, was a full-time Bering Sea fisherman by age 18, a relief captain at age 22 and running the Northwestern at age 24 – which he has continued to do for 20 years. Sig has been featured in all seasons of the documentary television series Deadliest Catch, where he also serves as technical advisor for the production.
The Northwestern has been, and continues to be, a top producer with an exceptional safety record: the Northwestern has never had a single death at sea in the nearly 20 years Sig has been at its helm and its serious injury rate is significantly lower than other boats in the Bering Sea fleet. The Northwestern won the final derby seasons for both the king crab and opilio crab in 2005 and 2006 respectively, taking home the titles for both the highest poundage caught and the highest dollars earned between the featured boats in the Deadliest Catch. Learn more and follow Sig at www.fvnorthwestern.com.
For more information about the Fish & Chips Showdown hosted by Captain Sig Hansen of the F/V Northwestern please visit www.thefishandchips.com or call 888-539-4691.
Pebble Mine advocates call for boycott of Seattle restaurants serving wild salmon from Bristol Bay, Alaska. As food blogger Ronald Holden put it, “Are they crazy?”
Here’s the dish: a media firestorm erupted this week because thirteen of Seattle’s finest seafood restaurants stepped up in support of protecting Bristol Bay’s salmon fishery (where I got my own start as a salmon fisherman) from the proposed Pebble Mine by serving and featuring Bristol Bay salmon on their menus.
In response to the positive press coverage of this Bristol Bay salmon promotion (part of Trout Unlimited’s Savor Bristol Bay campaign), there was a backlash from the Pebble folks, namely from the Truth About Pebble’s Board Member, Gail Phillips, who called for a boycott of these restaurants and from the Pebble Partnership’s CEO, John Shively, who denounced the chefs as a bunch of yuppie foodies from the big city who don’t know anything about how hard it is to live in rural Alaska. Little did Gail and John realize that they would feed the fire and help get the story in the New York Times, the LA Times, the Seattle Times, Seattle PI, the Washington Post, the Anchorage Daily News, and over 200 other media outlets. Here is today story in the Seattle PI: Save the salmon by eating salmon
I know where I’ll be eating dinner tonight, one of the thirteen Seattle restaurants serving wild salmon from Bristol Bay, Alaska. Those restaurants include: Art of the Table, Chiso, Emmer & Rye, Flying Fish, Persimmon, Ponti Seafood Grill, Rover’s Restaurant, Steelhead Diner, Tilth Restaurant, Tilikum Place Cafe, The Pike Brewing Co., Palace Kitchen and Etta’s Seafood.
Join me in supporting Alaska’s commercial fishermen and Seattle’s chefs and restaurants by voting with your fork and Savoring Bristol Bay!
-Sig
Talk about a temperature swing. For Capt. Sig Hansen and crew –stars of the Discovery Channel’s hit series “The Deadliest Catch”– greeting guests at Epcot’s Norway pavilion this weekend means thawing out in Florida summer weather that is, oh, about 80 degrees warmer than their average workday environment catching crab on the Bering Sea. Capt. Sig, from one of the show’s featured vessels the “Northwestern,” his deck boss Edgar Hansen and crewman Matt Bradley got a warm reception from hundreds of cheering fans Friday afternoon while signing autographs and posing for photos. It was a return visit for the ‘Catch’ crew; they made a similar appearance at Epcot last summer. If you want to meet-n-greet with Capt. Sig and Co. from the Northwestern, they will be in the (air-conditioned) gift shop in Norway at Epcot again later today, Saturday and Sunday, 1pm to 4pm and 5:30pm to 8pm.
Is there room in this neighborhood for two burger contests? I guess we’ll find out soon enough.
Wednesday afternoon from 3:00 – 4:00 pm on the Jones Soda Headquarters rooftop, contestants will try to create the most original and tasty burger using any Jones Soda product in their recipe. Winning recipes in the past have utilized Cola, Orange Cola, Cream Soda and Jones Naturals Limes with Orange.
Participants will have 20 minutes to cook, assemble, plate and present the finished product to the judges, where Sig Hansen, Erik Denmark and Brian Canlis will be on hand to rate each burger on appearance, taste and creativity.
While this panel of judges has one glaring omission, it is quite impressive nevertheless:
Sig Hansen is the Seattle-based Captain of the fishing vessel Northwestern and one of the stars of the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch.
Erik “the Red” Denmark, who resides in Seattle, is a competitive eater and a member of the International Federation of Competitive Eating. He recently placed eighth in Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest in New York City, eating 38 dogs in 10 minutes.
Brian Canlis is the co-owner of the award-winning Seattle fine dining restaurant Canlis.
Look’s like Sig’s Alaskan Adventure package raised, $13,000. That’s not bad.
Toby Keith’s sixth annual golf and music fundraising weekend to benefit Ally’s House raised more than a half-million dollars to help children with cancer and their families in Keith’s native Oklahoma. The $550,000 raised brings the to-date total to nearly $3 million. The dinner, music and auction saw several big ticket items drawing huge bids. A dinner party for 20 with Keith earned $32,500. The Alaskan Adventure with Deadliest Catch boat captain Sig Hansen brought in $13,000, and a Costa Rica getaway to the Four Seasons drew a $19,000 bid. More than 40 sports and music celebrities were in attendance, including Keith’s Beer For My Horses co-star and co-writer Rodney Carrington, and baseball player Roger Clemens.
‘Deadliest Catch’ captains, crew tape post-fishing-season show in S.D.
By David Hasemyer, Union-Tribune Staff Writer
2:00 a.m. June 10, 2009
PACIFIC BEACH – For every macho couch potato who wants to live the life of crab boat fisherman Phil Harris, the perpetually angry captain on the reality TV hit “Deadliest Catch,” Harris has this advice: Don’t do it.
“You haven’t got what it takes,” Harris said yesterday with a mix of disdain and empathy for adventure-seeking amateurs. Harris and the four other captains of the crab boats featured in the popular Discovery Channel series left the rough seas off Alaska for a round table at RT’s Longboard Grill in Pacific Beach this week. The captains are in San Diego until tomorrow taping a companion segment called “After the Catch,” which will begin airing Tuesday following the weekly installment of “Deadliest Catch.” Sig Hansen, the Seattle-based captain with Nordic good looks, is here. So is Johnathan Hillstrand, a resident of Homer, Alaska, with intense eyes and a rough-hewn nature.
After 125 years today, June 7 2009, the Bristol Bay fishery is alive and well. Learning from other salmon fisheries, then developing the Alaska Territorial Board of Fisheries in 1950 and with good fisheries management, this fishery has survived while others have not.
The future of this fishery’s continuing success will depend on Alaska’s decisions regarding industrialization of her resources and her continuing commitment to the care and protection of her living natural resources.
Sig Hansen signed autographs Downtown on Saturday. (Shawn Wilson/KTUU-TV)
On the wire from Anchorage.
by April Young
Saturday, June 6, 2009
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — His show is called “Deadliest Catch” and there were hundreds of fans trying to catch some time with Captain Sig on Saturday.
Sig Hansen signed t-shirts, books and even faces at the 5th Avenue Mall. He made an appearance at the Alaska Walking Store.
Some people waited a couple of hours to see him.
“We just flew in for the day and I don’t know how many people showed up but there must have been 300 or 400 people at least and it just never surprises me,” Hansen said. “It’s amazing when you meet people from Florida and all over the country.”
Hansen said the show started out as a documentary on the Discovery Channel, and he’s surprised how its popularity exploded.
Sig will be attendance this June 19th for a benefit for the Wounded Warriors. For more information or to volunteer to help, call Mark Kandianis of Kodiak Fish Company 360-201-0757 or email: kfish@az.com.
Mark’s statement says it best, I just thought it was a worthy cause to let these warriors know we’re still thinking of them and we haven’t forgotten them. The TV coverage may have dwindled after the election but these guys are still walking around with lost limbs and scars that reflect a lifetime of misery and we want to let people know they didn’t do this for nothing.
Alaska’s Fishing Community Honors our Wounded Warriors
Friday, June 19 2009 at the Washington State Patrol Aviation Section Hangar
Olympia, Washington 1000 to 1400 PDT
What we are doing:
We are putting on an Alaska Seafood Buffet for 300 Wounded Warriors from Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis, Washington. There will also be Fly-bys of WWII T-6 aircraft with a missing man formation. The Olympic Air Show sponsored
by the Olympic Flight Museum is held June 20-21 in Olympia. Many pilots and volunteers who will participate in the air show will also be on hand to help with the buffet to honor our Wounded Warriors.
What you can do:
We are asking all Alaskan and Northwest Fishermen, their vendors, suppliers, shipyards, fish buyers, brokers, personnel, and any other organizations or individuals to please show your support for our military men and women who have been injured in the service to these United States. There are many things in life we do for our own gratification; these are the men and women that give us that opportunity.
We need contributions of money or seafood for this event, and Remote Warrior Care Program sponsored by the Madigan Foundation of Fort Lewis, Washington. The Foundation places wounded, injured and ill warriors back into their hometowns to recuperate before being released from active military service or returned to active duty. Approximately twelve warriors from Alaska, many from Washington state and the rest of the country are presently in medical transition at Madigan Army Medical Center.
All donations are eligible for a 501 (c) 3 tax deduction and will receive a letter of acknowledgment from The Madigan Foundation. Contributions should be made to:
The Madigan Foundation for “Wounded Warriors Event” and mailed to
Madigan Foundation, P.O. Box 97215, Lakewood, WA 98497.
A donation of $500 gives the contributor a ticket for a drawing for a flight in a beautifully restored 1942 T-6 / SNJ-4 WWII Advanced Navy Trainer N119 DP.
FOR MORE INFORMATION DOWNLOAD THE FOLLOWING HANDOUTS
Alaskan Fishing Community Wounded Warrior Release
We’re back again this year at Ronald McDonald House in Seattle. In 2008 the Avellino Family walked away with the Sig and Crew Dinner and 10 guests for over $4,000. If you want to read more about how you can help Ronald McDonald House, please click here—> rmhc-handout-09
The Avellino family
