Article: 'Deadliest Catch' crabbers aiming to harvest tourists.

Byline: Margaret Bauman

Apr. 22--Four commercial crab boat captains who starred in the popular television series "The Deadliest Catch" are gearing up for a new and lucrative harvest: tourism in Ketchikan.

Veteran crab fisherman Larry Hendricks, with partners Phil Harris, Sig Hansen and Rick Quashnick, hope to bring thousands of cruise ship visitors to the Southeast Alaska city aboard Hendricks' retired crab vessel, Sea Star, to learn all about fishing for crab on the high seas. Their business manager, also a crab boat captain, is Gary Stewart, Hendricks said.

Instead of risking life and limb to harvest crab on the Bering Sea, Hendricks, his ...

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