Gulls flock to the Trident Seafood plant in Kodiak on Oct. 3, 2022. Job and wage data indicates that seafood processors faced difficulties in finding enough workers in 2023. (Photo by Yereth ...

Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and other coastal senators have proposed legislation to exempt seafood processing companies from a cap on the number of international workers they can hire through the ...

Representatives of fish processing companies in Alaska are complaining about the possibility that they might lose access to 4,000 to 5,000 temporary guest workers they hire each year through the State ...

In Congress today, a bill that would allow foreign students to work in Alaska fish processing plants cleared a major committee. The provision is part of a spending bill now headed to the Senate floor.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A remote salmon processing plant operated by Seattle-based Peter Pan Seafoods near Alaska’s Aleutian Islands has been heavily damaged by a fire that was still burning ...

Alaska seafood processors hired fewer people in 2023 but paid them more and relied more on nonresidents to fill the jobs, a state analysis shows. The employment trends are what would be expected in an ...