ANCHORAGE – Testing of employees at the Copper River Seafoods’ (CRS) Anchorage processing plant from July 17 to 22, 2020 found 56 of 134 employees tested positive for COVID-19. Thirty employee test results are pending, and 14 employees are untested. Almost all employees are Municipality of Anchorage residents. Employees with positive test results are being notified […]
On Sunday, the city of Seward issued a press release reporting that they will be “providing critical support for an American Seafoods vessel,” that had a serious COVID-19 outbreak aboard and would be arriving in that city sometime Wednesday. According to the release, 85 members of the crew of the American Triumph tested positive […]
After years of storing large quantities of its flash frozen seafood with a Seattle cold storage firm, Copper River Seafoods is investing in its own cold storage facility in Anchorage, one with a capacity of two million pounds of frozen seafood. “Since Copper River Seafoods is Alaska’s seafood processing company, being the only one […]
Eighty-six of 126 crewmen on board the American Seafoods factory trawler American Dynasty have tested positive for COVID-19 in the wake of a fishing trip off the coast of Washington State, the company has confirmed. The vessel is now moored at Seattle, under lockdown, with one crewmember hospitalized and others quarantined and monitored by medical personnel. […]