A Group of Fishermen's Effort to Bring F/V Akutan Processing Barge to Bristol Bay Ends in Disaster
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [KDLG] by Dave Bendinger August 15, 2017
Fiasco. Disaster. Nightmare. These are words used by those involved with the floating processor Akutan to describe a fishing season gone terribly wrong. The Akutan, owned by Klawock Oceanside, Inc., was supposed to custom process up to 100,000 pounds of Bristol Bay salmon a day for a small fleet of fishermen under the banner Bristol Bay Seafoods, LLC. After July 25, it was bound for the Kuskokwim to give local fishermen their
Photo: Dave Bendinger / KDLG The 180-foot Akutan anchored in the Nushagak Bay not far from the Dillingham dock. on August 5, 2017....
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