ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A community fishing association from Western Alaska has turned a former beer distribution center in Washington into a fish processing plant.
The Aleutians Pribilof Islands Community Development Association will use the plant to add more value to seafood than it can in its plants in Atka and False Pass, such as packaging and labeling. The plant will also help expand market share in Cannon Fish Co., a company it acquired last year, according to the Alaska Dispatch News.
The new plant, located on a railroad spur hallway between Seattle and Tacoma, cost about $3 million to build and equip and is large enough to process seafood from other sources as well, said CEO Larry Cotter.
While the Alaska plants can do basic processing such as removing heads and guts and churning out filets, the Washington location will be able to skin, debone and cut products into smaller servings, then package, label and send it to customers.