Update of Alaska COVID-19 Spread and the Fishing Season
[Every Friday, SeafoodNews will publish an updated timeline of events about COVID-19 and alaska’s 2020 fishing season.]
March 10: Trident Seafoods was the first Alaska processor to restrict its workers at their Akutan plant to thwart coronavirus spread. The plant is processing pollock, cod, and crab from the Bering Sea.
March 11: Govenor Mike Dunleavy signed a Public Health Disaster Emergency Declaration about the novel corona virus. Since then, Dunleavy and the state’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink have issued 15 health and travel mandates in the five weeks since ...
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