Optimism Returns to Salmon Market -- Alaska salmon packers are catching a second wind. Will it last?

摘要

Early last year, Alaska's salmon processing industry seemed to be taking on water and in danger of sinking. A granddaddy of the trade, Wards Cove Packing Co , had closed down all its canneries due to years of "sustained, significant, and acceleratinglosses " In an Anchorage courtroom, several major Bristol Bay sockeye packers faced possible liability of more than 1 billion dollar for alleged price fixing. In the marketplace, processors faced a glut of millions of cans of pink salmon, and foreign farmers feasted on the key U.S. and Japanese fresh and frozen markets. In short, it was a bleak season foi Alaska's 125-year-old commercial salmon industry.