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Kodiak Setnet Fleet Saves Season by Linking Up With Silver Bay Seafoods

16Oct

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Kodiak Setnet Fleet Saves Season by Linking Up With Silver Bay Seafoods

Veteran salmon setnetters in Kodiak, Alaska’s Alitak District have struck a deal with Silver Bay Seafoods after long-time buyer OBI dropped the Alitak setnet fleet from its roster, citing economic concerns. OBI’s decision to drop the setnetters had left them with no established means for gearing up remote fishing camps, fueling boats and selling their catch, wrote veteran harvester Hannah Heimbuch, who is a fisheries policy and communications consultant with Ocean Strategies, a public affairs firm specializing in seafood fisheries and marine resources. “After a spring of chaos, the fish ultimately pulled us through in Alitak this year,” Heimbuch wrote in Ocean Strategies’ latest fisheries policy report, released Oct. 1. “While salmon runs statewide were inconsistent in both re...

Silver Bay Seafoods Fined for Water Quality Violations

Silver Bay Seafoods LLC of Sitka, Alaska, has been fined $467,469 by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation for violations of their Alaska Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit at the processor’s Naknek River facility in Bristol Bay. DEC officials, which announced the fine on June 7, said that in addition to numerous violations identified at the Bristol Bay processing plant during a scheduled inspection in 2021, the company repeatedly discharged significantly more fish waste into the Naknek River than permitted, despite a DEC decision to deny Silver Bay Seafoods’ request to exceed discharge limits. “Not only did Silver Bay Seafoods' knowing and recalcitrant disregard for permit terms put the local environment at risk, but it also gave them a material competi...

Silver Bay Seafoods Providing Humanitarian Relief to Ukraine

A fisherman-owned seafood processing company in Sitka, Alaska with deep ties to Ukraine has reached out in a humanitarian effort with the donation of a 20-foot container filled with wild Alaska canned salmon and $130,000 USD to World Central Kitchen’s hunger relief program. “Silver Bay Seafoods is deeply connected to Ukraine,” company spokeswoman Abby Fredrick said. “Our employees have family friends and colleagues who have been seriously impacted by the situation in Ukraine.” “In particular, one of our long-standing fleet managers, Chris ‘Coach’ Hansen, was in Kharkiv with his wife and her daughter from the beginning of the attacks until they eventually found refuge in the Czech Republic,” she explained. Hansen, a former Eastern Washington University football player, became t...