A fishing group is circulating a petition calling for greater transparency after Trident Seafoods announced a 50-cent per-pound price this year. It's the lowest price listed in online state records, which date back to 1984.
Fish crew members at a Dillingham protest of low fish prices on July 20, 2023.
in 2021 and 2022 by announcing a base price at the start of the season, but this year the company waited until mid-July, along with other processors in the region.“The producer gets paid what’s left over,” he said. “We produce the fish and then it gets processed and sold and everything and everybody gets their cut, and then the morsels that are leftover, they give to us. There should be a fixed cost for what we produce here.
, which start in 1984. North Pacific Seafoods and Peter Pan Seafoods announced the same price a few days later. “I know guys that are not able to pay their crews this year. They’re going to have to borrow money to pay their crews,” he said. “And I know people trying to figure out how they’re going to fly home right now, what credit card they’re going put the airfares on.”“If they made a commitment for a large price on a large year, they could be out of business, too. So there has to be some type of transparency and way that we can talk,” he said.
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