Eight major primary processors of wild Alaska salmon are phasing out their financing of the Marine Stewardship Council salmon certification program, prompting a decision by the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation to continue its support only through Oct. 29.
The eight processors, Trident Seafoods, Icicle Seafoods, Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Peter Pan Seafoods, Alaska General Seafoods, Kiwk’pak Fisheries, E&E Foods, and North Pacific Seafoods, account for about 70 percent of the wild salmon harvest processed in Alaska.
“They have given us notice they will support the MSC program for Alaska salmon only through October of 2012, when the current certificate expires,” said James Browning, executive director of AFDF.
AFDF made its decision at a board meeting on Jan. 16, Browning said.
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