Alaska Journal | Adak stakeholders protest denial of proposed cod allocation alaskajournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from alaskajournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(
9:44 PM UPDATE: Foss’s appeal document added, after coverage of 75 speakers at Port Commission meeting, followed by commissioners passing both motions – as Shell drillship Noble Discoverer arrived in Everett)
12:58 PM: Just as Seattle port commissioners are about to start their meeting on the controversial Terminal 5 lease to Foss/Shell, we received that photo of one of the Shell offshore-drilling rigs that is expected to wind up here for a while: The
Noble Discoverer, which, as we reported earlier, entered Washington waters early today.
Jason Mihok photographed the ND (and Foss tugs) as they passed Port Townsend – he was on board the Victoria Clipper. Meantime, we’re at Pier 69 (steps from the Clipper’s HQ, in fact), where the commission chambers are overflowing – we in fact are sitting on the floor in the back of the room. We’ll be chronicling the meeting as it unfolds.
Support builds for labeling wild-caught Alaska seafood as organic intrafish.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from intrafish.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In January, around 40 percent of employees at Trident Seafoods Akutan facility tested positive for COVID-19, followed by cases on its catcher-processor vessel
Kodiak Enterprise, at the company s Tacoma port.
Some 7,300 Alaska residents account for the 26,000 seafood processing workforce in the state, according to data from the McDowell Group (now McKinley).
Chris Barrows, president of Pacific Seafood Processors Association (PSPA), noted while the industry is thankful for the new inclusionary measure, the biggest constraint still is the lack of federal vaccine supply.
Dunleavy s office noted in the letter that industries with high numbers of seasonal, out-of-state workers place an additional burden on the Alaska healthcare industry, but said the state did not have enough vaccine doses at this point to allocate a specific portion to seafood and other industries.
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.