Icicle Seafoods has announced plans to close its facilities at Adak, in the Aleutian Islands, ostensibly over concerns about the health of the region's Pacific cod fishery and increased regulatory uncertainty.
The announcement April 19 came on the heels of earlier uncertainty about whether Icicle would operate the plant this summer.
Officials with Atka Pride Seafoods at Atka said April 23 that they had extended an offer to commercial harvesters who had been delivering to Icicle at Adak to bring their catch to Atka and have had some response from harvesters who do not want to drive their boats to Dutch Harbor to deliver fish.
Atka Pride is a joint venture of APICDA Joint Ventures Inc. and the Atka Fishermen's Association, a non-profit local fishermen's association. APICDA Joint Ventures is a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary of the Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association.
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