Silver Bay says it plans to manage all OBI facilities and operations, including processing plants in Petersburg, Seward, Kodiak, Larsen Bay, Egegik, Wood River, Cordova, and Naknek, as well as a warehouse and labeling facility in Kent, Washington.
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Petersburg’s OBI Seafoods processing plant hit an important yearly milestone on Monday, August 12, with 100,000 cases of fish packed. But it hit that mark a little later than usual.
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There’s a nearly-100 year old wooden boat in Petersburg that’s become a staple of the tight-knit local music scene. Musicians in town have a few performance spaces to choose from — a lot of them are in bars. But the crew of the Roedda brings a unique option with them when they come to town — transforming the boat’s fish hold into an improvised sound stage.
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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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