OBI Pulls Support for Alitak Setnetters Sends Group Scrambling for Buyers This Year
OBI Seafood’s decision not to offer buying or support services at the Alitak Plant at the southern tip of Kodiak Island has hit the group of setnet fishermen there hard.
The century-old processing plant has not been processing salmon for a few years, but it has purchased fish from 60-some fishermen and residents of the village of Akihok. OBI Seafoods is facing the same market conditions and spiraling costs other long-time Alaska salmon processors are seeing, while global salmon markets have declined. The situation ....
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