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.