USDA Releases Bids to Purchase Alaska Seafood
The US Department of Agriculture is purchasing more than 1.7 million cases of canned salmon and 15 million pounds of Alaska pollock for its nutrition programs.
The US Department of Agriculture is purchasing more than 1.7 million cases of canned salmon and 15 million pounds of Alaska pollock for its nutrition programs.
Coastal Villages Region Fund, Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation, and Maruha Nichiro are expanding their partnership to grow Alaska’s shoreside pollock business. The partnership includes the purchase of nine fishing vessels.
Amalga Harbor, near Juneau, has a remote release of hatchery chum salmon returning there. Pictured is one the first common property purse seine fisheries.