Alaska's crab fishermen go prime time with deadly job
Capt. Phil Harris lost a crew member overboard. He broke his back twice, all his fingers, both shoulders, an ankle and a wrist. Many of the guys he started fishing with were killed on the job. Both his wives left him. Crab fishing's been better to him than most. For starters, he's 50 and still

Publication: Columbia Daily Tribune

THE MOST DANGEROUS JOB IN AMERICA Workdays can be a dance with death for crab fishermen in Alaska, where the fatal accident rate is 100 times the national average. And the government just makes it worse. - May 31, 1993
(FORTUNE Magazine) - THE NIGHTMARE preyed on Brian Bugg. A deck hand who worked the cold, brute waters of the Bering Sea, Bugg dreamed he saw a crew member vanish over the side. The dark vision troubled him so much that he told his new shipmates about it when he joined the Gulf Wind, a 157-foot

Publication: Fortune

U.S. Senator to Pitch Controversial Plan to Overhaul Alaska's Crab Fisheries.
By Wesley Loy, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 4--U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens said he intends to sell a plan to overhaul Alaska's crab fisheries to Congress one way or another, even though some of his colleagues have questioned his tacking the controversial plan onto

Publication: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Crab Fishing Rules Leave Hundreds Jobless
DAN JOLING, Associated Press Writer AP Online 10-14-2005 Dateline: ANCHORAGE, Alaska In this photo provided by the City of King Cove via the Aleutians East Borough, unused crab pots that would have been picked up by boats before the season, sit unclaimed in King Cove, Alaska, in Oct. 2005. Changes

Publication: AP Online

All for the love of crab|Alaska's fishermen go prime time for third season of 'Deadliest Catch'
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Captain Phil Harris lost a crew member overboard. He broke his back (twice), all his fingers, both shoulders, an ankle and a wrist. Many of the guys he started fishing with were killed on the job. Both his wives left him. Crab fishing's been better to him than most. For

Publication: Courier News (Elgin, IL)

Crab crash controversy: did overfishing doom Alaska's king of crabs?
The late 1970s and early 1980s were heady days for red king crab fishermen plumbing the waters of Bristol Bay. A lucky few became instant millionaires, thanks to a seemingly inexhaustible supply of the state's largest and most valuable crustacean. At its peak in 1980, the bay's red king crab

Publication: Alaska Business Monthly