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.
In an effort to bring you more video, more content, more Sig, more Edgar and more Northwestern. We have launched NorthwesternTV. You’ll find the link in the menu here under Media->Videos and head on over to Northwestern TV
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In other news today the Anchorage Daily news is running the story of Sig’s opposition to the Pebble Mine.
It’s unusual for a “Deadliest Catch” crew member to take a hard stance in a big Alaska resource battle like Pebble. Hansen, who lives in Seattle, said he usually shies away from requests to get involved in anything political.
Because Hansen exploits crab stocks and other Alaska fisheries, he said, he can’t be opposed to all resource development.
“I’m not your typical greenie,” Hansen said.
For example, he supports offshore oil drilling in the Bering Sea if it can be done safely, he said.
Read the story after the jump
The Copper River Salmon fishery is opening today and it is a big deal!
“…Renowned for its succulent king and sockeye salmon, opens at 7 a.m. on May 14, signaling the unofficial start of the summer salmon season in Alaska.”
According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, theking salmon run will be some 77,000 chinooks, about 24,000 more than the 2008 run produced, albeit 3,000 less than the 10-year average, with about 53,000 fish harvested.
Biologists are also predicting a run of about 1.3 million sockeyes, about 840,000 less than the five-year average and the fifth lowest run since 1980…
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Sweden / Norway – we’re shipping Sig’s bottles to Oliver Twist Restaurant in Stockholm, and through Jorgen’s network, Sig’s will be sold by Nogne O in Grinstad.
Calif – May 8 in San Diego, Captain Sig’s will be on tap at Hamilton’s Tavern at another hugh Rogue bar promo.
NYC – on May 5 & 6, Captain Sig’s will be on tap at a special Rogue promotion at Blind Tiger Ale House (Bleeker Street at Jones) – we are serving both regular draft, and a special cask that is dry-hopped…along with 32 other Rogue beers and 1700 Yaquina Bay Oysters.
www.blindtigeralehouse.com; is their website.
Captain Sig’s bottles are available at Whole Foods in NYC, and specialty beer stores.
