11-05-2016 02:40 via alaskapublic.org

Sealaska back in seafood business

Southeast Alaska’s regional Native corporation is back in the seafood business. Juneau-based Sealaska on Monday announced the purchase of a minority share of a Seattle processing plant.
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Independent Packers Corp. is a specialty plant that processes about 50 million pounds of seafood annually.
It’s the first of several investments the corporation plans to announce this year.
Sealaska Chief Operating Officer Terry Downes said it’s a successful enterprise insulated f
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