date:Dec 28, 2012
Sitka-based Silver Bay Seafoods has acquired property in Bristol Bay for a new processing operation there. The company plans to sell shares in the operation to raise the $25-million needed for construction. Beginning in 2014, Silver Bay hopes to process large portions of the Bristol Bay driftnet salmon fishery, and the Togiak sac-roe herring fishery.
The first announcement that Silver Bay Seafoods was planning to open a processing facility in Bristol Bay came in late November on the Deckboss