Alaska Ice News Today

Patricia Louis Bonney

The world's largest burrowing clam, found in Washington waters around Puget Sound, is serious business.

Long before Kodiak had the B&B Bar on Shelikof Avenue, there was B&B Fisheries, a processing plant owned by partners Bix Bonney and his uncle, Ed Bonney. Bix died recently

Long-time Kodiak processor Jim Major died peacefully at home on Jan. 10, 2021. Mr. Major managed Eastpoint processing plant in Kodiak for many years and spent the rest of his fisheries career as assistant manager and, later, purchasing agent for Alaska Pacific Seafood. Mr. Major was born on Nov. 16, 1933, to Jesse Frank Major and Wilma Jean Price Major in Seligman, Missouri. He grew up learning responsibility and the ethic of hard work on the family farm. He missed a lot of school because he he...