The OBI Seafoods cannery in Petersburg is ahead of schedule. They hit 100,000 cases of fish on Saturday, August 5th —that’s four days ahead of last year. However, the workers were so busy canning, OBI had to blow its celebratory steam whistle a few days late.
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Trident Seafoods dropped the price for Alaska chum salmon this weekend, from sixty cents to twenty cents per pound for all fisheries. They say Russian pink salmon harvests are affecting demand for all kinds of salmon.
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The Southeast Alaska Dungeness crab fishery opened on June 15th. But roughly a quarter of the fleet in Petersburg is skipping the season. That’s partly because many of them are expecting low prices.
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