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The state Board of Fisheries’ decision last month to move the Southeast commercial shrimp pot fishery from a fall start to spring means there will be no harvest this year. ....
Posted by Sage Smiley | May 12, 2021 Wrangell’s Mill Dock (Sage Smiley / KSTK) There’s going to be a new crab buyer in town. Both Sea Level Seafoods and a newcomer Alaska Ice Seafoods are expected to purchase from commercial fishermen this summer. President and CEO of Alaska Ice Seafoods Cody Mills says years ago, his company’s original operation sold to Trident. But now Alaska Ice Seafoods is looking to move back into Southeast Alaska. “We do a lot of live seafood,” Mills told Wrangell’s assembly on Tuesday. “That’s a big thing we do, which builds a lot of value for the fishermen because there’s usually more money left for the fishermen because you don’t have all these big processing costs.” ....
Pointing to low salmon forecasts, Trident to keep Wrangell plant closed Posted by Sage Smiley | Apr 30, 2021 Trident’s Wrangell plant (foreground) and Reliance Harbor. (Sage Smiley / KSTK) One of Wrangell’s two fish processors will remain closed for the second year in a row. Seattle-based Trident Seafoods cites a dismal salmon forecast for its decision. Listen to the story here. Chum and pink salmon returns to Southeast Alaska over the last few years have crumpled, and the predictions for the coming season aren’t especially heartening. “It’s been a real disaster around here,” says Wrangell commercial fisherman Gig Decker. “I mean, my main income has been the dogs the chum salmon and the runs just haven’t been coming back. They don’t know if it’s because of the blob or warming or what it is, but the biologists don’t seem to have a lot of optimism about it.” ....