Pointing to low salmon forecasts, Trident to keep Wrangell plant closed Posted by Sage Smiley | Apr 30, 2021 Trident’s Wrangell plant (foreground) and Reliance Harbor. (Sage Smiley / KSTK) One of Wrangell’s two fish processors will remain closed for the second year in a row. Seattle-based Trident Seafoods cites a dismal salmon forecast for its decision. Listen to the story here. Chum and pink salmon returns to Southeast Alaska over the last few years have crumpled, and the predictions for the coming season aren’t especially heartening. “It’s been a real disaster around here,” says Wrangell commercial fisherman Gig Decker. “I mean, my main income has been the dogs — the chum salmon — and the runs just haven’t been coming back. They don’t know if it’s because of the blob or warming or what it is, but the biologists don’t seem to have a lot of optimism about it.”