Pacific Seafood Issues Statement on California Dungeness Crab Lawsuit
In March 2023 a class action lawsuit was filed by a fisherman named Brand Little of Auburn, California, who accused Portland-based seafood processor Pacific Seafood of price fixing.
In the lawsuit, Little said that Pacific Seafood had been fixing the prices paid to Dungeness crab harvesters “for at least the last four years, and likely substantially longer.” Little claimed that the seafood company’s actions resulted in harvesters earning “dramatically reduced” money, in addition to pricing the product out of customers during peak demand periods. In addition, the lawsuit...
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