Two of Alaska’s largest seafood processors, merge salmon operations

The Petersburg Fisheries seafood plant, owned by Icicle Seafoods is and where the company got its start in 1965. (Photo courtesy KFSK)
Two of Alaska’s largest seafood companies are merging their Alaska salmon and Gulf of Alaska groundfish processing businesses. Icicle Seafoods and Ocean Beauty Seafoods will be combining forces to create OBI Seafoods.
Talks of a potential merger have been circulating for months. There’s been speculation in the seafood industry press that the two Seatt