Sitka-based Northline Seafoods secured funding to build a mobile commercial salmon processing platform for the Bristol Bay fishery. The vessel is billed as the world’s most sustainable and efficient, a one-of-a-kind vertically integrated processor. And it already has a name: Hannah.
By consolidating the freezing, shipping, storing, and reprocessing operations, Hannah eliminates the number of intermediate hands that Bristol Bay salmon passes through between the catcher and the customer. And by shipping whole frozen fish to Bellingham at the end of the season, processing can be spread out over time, creating year-round jobs for processors, engineers, maintenance staff, sales and logistics personnel, and corporate management staff. Read the full article here.
Source: Alaska Business.
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