USDA completes 300,000 case pink salmon purchase from Ocean Beauty, Icicle, Trident and Peter Pan
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Michael Ramsingh - October 1, 2014
Last month the USDA purchased purchased nearly 300,000 cases of surplus canned Alaskan pink salmon at a price range between $40 and $45 per case for a total value of nearly $13 million.
According to the USDA's purchase order the were 14.75 oz tall cans of Alaskan pink salmon.
Icicle Seafoods, Trident, Ocean Beauty and Peter Pan all won bids to distribute the salmon to child nutrition and other related domestic food assistance programs for the Fiscal year 2014.
Ocean Beauty had the largest order and will distribute 108,800 cases of the canned pinks...
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