Sea Share partners with Ocean Beauty and others in 13,000 lb. bycatch halibut donation to remote villages
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Arctic Sounder] - October 13, 2014 -
Home freezers in the Northwest Arctic got a little fuller last week thanks to a 13,000-pound halibut donation from SeaShare.
SeaShare teamed up with Ocean Beauty Seafoods in Kodiak, the U.S. Coast Guard, NANA Regional Corporation and many other agencies and individuals to make the delivery happen.
The fish were received from Kodiak fishermen then processed and packaged by Ocean Beauty. Carlile Transportation donated time and took the halibut to get loaded onto a USCG C-130. The fish was then flown to Kotzebue where the NANA crew and other local volunteers were on hand to quickly divvy up the boxes and distributed to the villages in the region.
The halibut is bycatch that was inadvertently caught in commercial salmon nets during the season.
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