The crew of the F/V Northwestern and stars of The Deadliest Catch, America’s top-rated cable television show, are speaking out about a massive hard-rock mine that developers want to build in the heart of Alaska’s wild salmon country. The proposed mine, called Pebble, straddles the headwaters of the two of the world’s most productive salmon rivers. If developed, Pebble could be North Read More …

 
Captain Sig Hansen, well known for his featured status on the cable show Deadliest Catch has used his political capital, as it were, to speak out against Alaska’s Deadliest Match; fish and the proposed Pebble Mine Project.

It’s unusual for a “Deadliest Catch” crew member to take a hard stance in a big Alaska resource battle like Read More …