Icicle, Peter Pan land USDA contracts for canned salmon

(Photo by Clark Fair)
The United States Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that it will buy half-pound cans of sockeye salmon from Icicle Seafoods and Peter Pan for federal food programs.
The USDA announced this summer that it would purchase up to $30 million worth of canned sockeye through its Emergency Food Assistance Program. Funding for the purchase came from import tarrifs.
Trident and Ocean Beauty also submitted bids to the USDA, but didn’t offer the low price necessa