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COVID-19 hits 2nd Trident plant February 5th |
COVID-19 has hit another processing plant operated by fishing giant Trident Seafoods this time aboard one of the corporation s massive factory trawlers, the Island Enterprise.
Trident announced last Thursday that five workers on the football field-length ship tested positive for the coronavirus after it arrived in the Aleutian port of Dutch Harbor for the winter fishing season.
The news comes amid a still-growing outbreak that s already shut down Trident s massive processing plant on the Aleutian island of Akutan, just as the lucrative Bering Sea pollock fishery was set to ramp up. That outbreak has infected 266 of Akutan s 700 plant workers, Trident announced last Thursday.
20 Workers at Alaska Seafood Company Contract COVID-19 February 2, 2021
Multiple crew members on a seafood factory trawler in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska have tested positive for COVID-19, joining a growing list of outbreaks in seafood processors and vessels, city officials said.
The city of Unalaska said that factory trawler Araho, owned by seafood company O’Hara Corporation, reported 20 of its 40 crew members tested positive, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
City Manager Erin Reinders said a couple of crew members reported symptoms after the vessel arrived in Alaska from Seattle last week. Reinders said the city is developing a plan to coordinate care for infected crew members and determine what to do with the others.
ANCHORAGE (AP) â Multiple crew members on a seafood factory trawler in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska have tested positive for COVID-19, joining a growing list of outbreaks in seafood processors and vessels, city officials said.
The city of Unalaska said Friday that factory trawler Araho, owned by seafood company O Hara Corporation, reported 20 of its 40 crew members tested positive, the Anchorage Daily News reported Friday.
City Manager Erin Reinders said a couple of crew members reported symptoms after the vessel arrived in Alaska from Seattle on Wednesday. Reinders said the city is developing a plan to coordinate care for infected crew members and determine what to do with the others.
Twenty seafood workers were infected with coronavirus after an outbreak of COVID-19 on the seafood factory trawler Araho in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, according to city officials.The trawler, owned by the seafood company O'Hara corporation, had a crew of 40 workers, according to a news release from the City of Unalaska. Crew members from Araho arrived in Unalaska from Seattle on Wednesday, according to the Anchorage Daily News. Some of the.