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Peter Pan Seafood Co.'s Port Moller, Alaska, processing facility. Peter Pan Seafood photo A team of investors based in Seattle, Anchorage and London has beat out Trident Seafoods, Canfisco and Silver Bay Seafoods to scoop up the Peter Pan Seafood Co. assets from Japanese seller Maruha Nichiro, finalizing the deal on the last day of 2020. Rodger May of Northwest Fish in Seattle and Rob Gillam of McKinley Capital Management in Anchorage spoke with National Fisherman about their collaboration with RRG Investments in London and their collective commitment to operating — and expanding — the co...

Bristol Bay sockeye a high point in state's volatile season December 31st, 2020 |   More than 58 million sockeye salmon returned to Bristol Bay this summer. It's another in a series of enormous runs to the fishery. The commercial harvest was just as impressive — Bristol Bay's fleet hauled in 39.5 million fish, which is the fifth-largest harvest on record. But while the Bay's run exceeded 50 million fish for the sixth year in a row — 46% above the 20-year average — many other areas of the state were far below their forecast. "When you take Bristol Bay out of the picture and look at...

Share Overcoming serious doubts, Alaska’s salmon processors managed to squeak out a season this summer – but it came at a cost. According to a McDowell Group report, processors spent as much as USD 50 million (EUR 42.4 million) on COVID-19 protocol compliance, which included moving workers into Alaska early for quarantine, putting them up in hotels for their quarantine period, flying them on chartered planes, food costs, and paying for significant coronavirus testing and personal protective equipment, as well as security to ensure closed campuses. In a few cases, companies had medical p...

Liftoff on Dec. 15 in Kodiak. (Photo/John Kraus/Astra) Astra’s rocket reaches space after its Dec. 15 launch. (Photo/Courtesy/Astra) An engineer works at The Launch Company’s shop. (Photo/Courtesy/The Launch Company) The PSCA Launch Site in Kodiak. (Photo/John Kraus/Astra) Nighttime lights at the PSCA before the Dec. 15 launch attempt. (Photo/John Kraus/Astra) Forty miles from the City of Kodiak sits the Pacific Spaceport Complex-Alaska, only one of four places to launch a rocket into orbit from the United States, and where, just a week ago on Dec. 15, California-based Astra bec...

Evridge holds a master’s degree in Natural Resource and Applied Economics from the University of Fairbanks and commercially fished from 2003 through 2008. “I am excited to work for an organization dedicated to realizing our state’s full potential. Alaska’s economic, social, and political challenges have been further amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an opportunity to define the future of our state, and I look forward to doing my part,” he said. The Alaska Ocean Cluster also hired Taylor Drew Holshouser as its director of Business Development. He has worked for the federal ...