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Trident Seafoods Engaged in Site Work for Unalaska Construction Project
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Trident Seafoods Engaged in Site Work for Unalaska Construction Project

In late July, Trident Seafoods began laying the groundwork for the first bunkhouses for a new processing plant at Captains Bay in Unalaska, located at the heart of robust Bering Sea and Aleutian Island region fishing grounds. Marc Kielmeyer, an engineering technician for the city of Unalaska, said that Trident has been granted the required permits and that site work for the bunkhouses got underway in late July. Construction of the actual bunkhouses, however, was still in the works, he said. Unalaska Community Broadcasting, a community radio station, noted in late July that Trident Seafoods began a feasibility study in 2017 to explore ways to upgrade its plant at Akutan, but ultimately decided that a complete rebuild was the only reasonable option. Subsequently, Trident began c...
Life-Sized Fishermen’s Memorial Planned for Unalaska
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Life-Sized Fishermen’s Memorial Planned for Unalaska

An accomplished artist from the Czech Republic who has spent years in the maritime industry plans to erect a life-sized fishermen’s memorial at the Carl Moses Boat Harbor in Unalaska in 2023, honoring lives lost in pursuit of the Bering Sea’s bounty. The memorial would include life sized statues of long-line, crab and cod harvesters, on an octagon shaped, five-foot high base constructed of a stainless steel frame, adorned with stainless steel sea life figures. The names of vessels and lives lost are planned to be displayed on the memorial on plaques and in other creative ways, according to the artist, Karel Machalek. Machalek was born and raised in the former Czechoslovakia, which is now the Czech Republic. There he learned to weld and worked as a tradesman. The city of Unalas...