Kotzebue Commercial Fishers Have Options: Two Buyers in Town This Season
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [KNOM] by Davis Hovey - July 14, 2017
For the first time in three yeas, Kotzebue commercial fishermen will have two buyers to sell their fish to.
According to Jim Menard, the area manager for the commercial fisheries division in Norton Sound and Kotzebue, Copper River Seafoods and Pacific Star will be purchasing fish in Kotzebue. How many fish the buyers will be able to hold remains to be seen, Menard says:
“One of the issues with Kotzebue always is what’s called a cargo capacity issue, in that the fish are not cut there. What they do is fly the fish out; so, if we get a big period, they do not have enough cargo space on the airplanes, and that ends up limiting how they are going to fish. So, the buyers will tell me they can’t take fish the next day, so, we’ll pull a period, or they may shorten a period.”
To help address the capacity issue, Pacific Star is planning on...
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