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Under new ownership, Peter Pan will focus on value-added products January 21st |   Peter Pan, the seafood processing company with an array of plants in Southwest Alaska, had been struggling to keep up with competitors. So, when its owner, Japanese seafood giant Maruha Nichiro, initially announced its sale of Peter Pan to three buyers, it said it expected a loss of almost $28 million. The deal means the company is now vertically integrated, so all stages of production and marketing — usu...

One of the largest seafood companies in the world has sold Peter Pan Seafoods to three private equity groups. The sale comes after years of struggle for

3:17 The strait was part of the final stretch of their four-month-long trip and less than one mile in their overall journey so Binde and Nguyen took their time and waited for safe conditions to cross. According to Binde, they made it across safely and with ease, traversed the island and spent their final day at Cape Sarichef, on the western side of Unimak. "[There were] waterfalls and so many caves," Binde said, describing his time on Unimak Island. "We had two weeks of beautiful weather, getti...

APICDA wraps up 2020 with 19 community projects funded December 31st, 2020 |   The Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association (APICDA) funded a broad range of community and economic development initiatives in 2020 to support infrastructure, housing, health and safety, education, and increased fisheries access for residents in their Community Development Quota (CDQ) member communities. The APICDA board approved 19 projects for funding in 2020 through their Community Develo...

  Commercial salmon harvesters are off to a slow start in the Copper River fishery, which in its first two 12-hour periods delivered a total of 3,255 Chinook and 6,025 sockeye salmon. The celebrated opener on May 14 brought in 1,552 kings and 1,473 reds, for a total of only 3,059 salmon. One veteran harvester […]

Credit Hope McKenney/KUCB Last week, on the final day of the fall semester, Santa and Mrs. Claus handed out gifts and pies to students and families outside of the Unalaska junior high and high school. 500 pies were handed out to community members and students who drove by to pick them up. The Lions Clubs annual event, Operation Santa, is a longstanding effort for the club to provide gifts to children in several communities including Unalaska, Nikolski, Adak, Akutan, False Pass, and Atka.  Mr. ...

Effort underway to locate the malaysia airplane that disappeared. because aircraft like the 777 rarely encounter problems once they hit cruising altitude. over an hour into the flight the plane was in cruising altitude. experts believe it was malfunctioning or a bombing. i will have the latest on the two passengers on the doomed aircraft traveling with false pass ports. who were there? why were there on board? it is day light now in the south china sea where authorities lost contact with the air...