Seattle Times, June 2, 2016 By Hal Bernton [cincopa AMEA5itkFTf9] Seafreeze America’s $30 million conversion is the latest investment in the local fleet of catcher processors that work off Alaska. Seattle’s fishing industry on Thursday feted the latest addition to the...
Seafoodnews.com, December 11, 2015 By Peggy Parker The North Pacific Fishery Management Council set 2016 pollock TACs at 1.341 million metric tons Thursday, up 30,643 metric tons from last year. Pollock TAC in the Aleutian Islands and Bogoslof area increased from...
Seafoodnews.com [Alaska Journal of Commerce], December 10, 2015 By DJ Summers A state tax rate glitch let groundfish trawlers off the hook for more than $10 million of fishery taxes in the last half decade, and there’s no concrete fix just yet. The fishery resource...
Pacific Fishing, Dutch Harbor Report, December 2015 By Jim Paulin Economic development: Despite factory trawler opposition, Adak has won guaranteed minimum amount of Pacific cod each year. Located some 350 miles west of Dutch Harbor, Adak is a former Cold War military...
Fishermen’s News, October 1, 2015 O’Hara Corporation’s new freezer trawler, launched on Aug. 31 by Eastern Shipbuilding Group in Panama City, Florida, will join the Amendment 80 fleet in the Bering Sea in 2016. Company officials say it will be used...
