2022 Processor Capacity Survey: More is Needed
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BBRSDA hopes the preseason capacity survey will ring the alarm bell of how badly Bristol Bay needs to expand processing capacity in 2022. Alaska’s groundfish fisheries contain many vessels capable of processing and freezing salmon. With improvements to the Port Moller Test Fishery, we have a much better advanced warning system of when big surges of fish are incoming and where they are headed. We encourage all domestic processing companies, existing or otherwise, to strongly consider sending whatever floating processing capacity they might have to Bristol Bay this summer.
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