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Coronavirus outbreak shutters big Alaska fish processing plant just as pollock season starts Published January 21
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Print article A coronavirus outbreak has shut down the Trident Seafoods processing plant in remote Akutan for three weeks, just as the facility gets ready for the lucrative pollock season. The plant in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, with up to 1,400 workers and the capacity to process up to 3 million pounds of raw fish a day, is the largest seafood production facility in North America. Bering Sea pollock the silvery fish found in everything from fish sticks to sushi is the focus of its operations.
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A second seafood processing plant in the Aleutian Islands has been hit with COVID-19 infections as the busy winter pollock fishing season is set to kick off.
The U.S. Coast Guard evacuated a Trident Seafoods worker to Anchorage on Sunday from its huge plant on the remote Aleutian island of Akutan, after the man tested positive for COVID-19.
His three roommates also tested positive, Trident said in a statement Monday.
The Aleutian Island seafood processors were largely successful in keeping the virus out of their onshore plants last year. But that s proven to be more of a challenge as companies fly in workers for the upcoming season, with the coronavirus much more widespread across the Lower 48.