ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaskans looking for summer employment have the opportunity to work in the seafood processing industry. Seafood processing employers are recruiting to pre-hire for more than 3,100 full-time, temporary seafood workers for the 2020 salmon season and other fishery seasons. Most employers offer transportation, and room and board benefits for those who […]
Seafood processors preparing for robust wild Alaska salmon fisheries, which begin in May, are taking special precautions to assure the safety of people and their harvest in a season where a novel coronavirus pandemic is making life complicated. Ocean Beauty Seafoods, for one, has advised its fleet they are taking some specific actions because […]
Pacific cod stocks hard hit by warming ocean temperatures are becoming a focal point at federal fisheries meetings, where harvesting sectors and processors fight over who gets to catch and process this versatile vitamin and protein packed white fish. Stock assessments in the fall of 2019 put the population of P-cod in the Gulf […]
Commercial catches of Alaska’s wild salmon fishery reached 192.7 million fish this past week. Some much-needed rain and cooling temperatures helped to boost the pink salmon overall harvest to nearly 120 million fish, still well below the 137.8 million forecast. Meanwhile, the sockeye catch, holding at nearly 55 million fish, exceeded the 41.7 million fish […]