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Kodiak Daily Mirror.
Daquilanea was a pillar of Kodiak’s seafood processing industry and Filipino community, the news site reported. He worked as the head production supervisor at Alaska Pacific Seafoods. His immense competence and that fabulous smile helped hundreds of Kodiak fishermen and processing workers make a living and helped to feed the world, the Kodiak Maritime Museum posted on Facebook about his passing, with hundreds of commenters offering condolences.
Earlier this month Chris Barrows, president of Pacific Seafood Processors Association (PSPA), sent a letter to the state of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, asking the state recognize worker’s contributions to the nation’s food supply and the fact that these workers are at substantially higher risk of exposure due to the nature of the congregate work environment, in its distribution of Pfizer/BioNTech and the Moderna vaccines to Alaska.
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Overcoming serious doubts, Alaska’s salmon processors managed to squeak out a season this summer – but it came at a cost.
According to a McDowell Group report, processors spent as much as USD 50 million (EUR 42.4 million) on COVID-19 protocol compliance, which included moving workers into Alaska early for quarantine, putting them up in hotels for their quarantine period, flying them on chartered planes, food costs, and paying for significant coronavirus testing and personal protective equipment, as well as security to ensure closed campuses. In a few cases, companies had medical professionals embedded onsite in remote locations to ensure care to their employees (and to limit any potential spread of coronavirus that would have crippled the functionality of the facility).