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Trident Seafoods is the largest seafood company in the United States, [2] harvesting primarily wild-caught seafood in Alaska [citation needed].. Trident manages a network of catcher and catcher processor vessels and processing plants across twelve coastal locations in Alaska.
They purchased the Pacific American Fisheries, cannery in Petersburg, Alaska. These four owned 55% and the company fishermen owned 45%. In 1977, the company was renamed Icicle Seafoods, Inc. By the early 1980s, Icicle was the world's largest halibut and black cod producer, and was among the world's top salmon producers.
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F/V Northwestern is an Alaskan crab, Pacific cod, and salmon tendering commercial fishing vessel featured in the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch. To date the Northwestern is the only vessel to have featured on all 20 seasons of Deadliest Catch as well as the pilot series America's Deadliest Season .
Salmon fishing is a nearly ubiquitous activity across Alaska, however the most valuable salmon fisheries are in the Bristol Bay, Prince William Sound and Southeast regions. Overfishing in the middle of the 20th century led to a precipitous decline in stocks and the development of a comprehensive fisheries management system overseen by the ...
He is the son of Shaun Andrew, an owner of Alaskan Leader Fisheries, which operates one of the largest long line fishing fleets in America. [1] He earned an Associate of Arts and Sciences from Wenatchee Valley College and a Bachelor of Science degree in energy resource management and development from the University of Wyoming. [2]
FV Alaska Ranger was a fishing factory ship owned and operated by the Fishing Company of Alaska of Seattle, Washington. The ship was constructed in 1973 for use as an oil field service vessel. The ship sank 23 March 2008, after reporting progressive flooding only hours earlier. Of the 47 on board, 42 were rescued.
The Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program was created by the Council in 1992 to provide western Alaska communities an opportunity to participate in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) fisheries that had been foreclosed to them because of the high capital investment needed to enter the fishery. [1]