EDMONDS — When a seafood processing plant in Alaska shut down in the middle of crabbing season, fishermen found themselves in a pinch. Under the state’s quota system, harvesters can only catch a set ...
On a normal winter day on St. Paul, an island in the Bering Sea some 300 miles off the Alaskan coast, the community would be humming with activity. At the Trident Seafood crab processing plant, the ...
The Trident Seafoods plant (foreground) in Akutan. (Helena Buurman, Alaska Volcano Observatory / University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute) COVID-19 outbreaks at two of Alaska’s largest ...