F/V Akutan’s sad, failed season in Bristol Bay

The 180-foot Akutan anchored is anchored August 5, 2017, in the Nushagak Bay not far from the Dillingham dock. (Photo by Dave Bendinger/KDLG)
Fiasco. Disaster. Nightmare.
These are words used by those involved with the floating processor Akutan to describe a fishing season gone terribly wrong.
The Akutan, owned by Klawock Oceanside, Inc., was supposed to custom process up to 100,000 pounds of Bristol Bay salmon a day for a small fleet of fishermen under the banner Bristol Bay Seafoods.
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