Skiffs sit on shore in the Southwest Alaska fishing town of King Cove. (Photo by James Brooks via Flickr under Creative Commons license) The fishing fleet in the Southwest Alaska town of King Cove ...

Gulls flock to the Trident Seafood plant in Kodiak on Oct. 3, 2022. Job and wage data indicates that seafood processors faced difficulties in finding enough workers in 2023. (Photo by Yereth ...

The Trident Seafoods plant (foreground) in Akutan. (Helena Buurman, Alaska Volcano Observatory / University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute) A coronavirus outbreak has shut down the Trident ...

Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and other coastal senators have proposed legislation to exempt seafood processing companies from a cap on the number of international workers they can hire through the ...

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TACOMA — Early next month, Trident Seafoods vessel-operations manager Tod Hall will bid his wife goodbye, then leave his Lakewood home for the start of a six-month season catching and processing fish ...

A coronavirus outbreak has shut down the Trident Seafoods processing plant in remote Akutan for three weeks, just as the facility gets ready for the lucrative pollock season. The plant in Alaska’s ...

Alaska seafood processors hired fewer people in 2023 but paid them more and relied more on nonresidents to fill the jobs, a state analysis shows. The employment trends are what would be expected in an ...