Seafood processors form a vital economic belt around coastal Alaska.“Alaska’s seafood processing industry works year-round cleaning, cutting, packaging, canning, or freezing a variety of species from salmon in the summer to crab, pollock, and cod in the winter,” the state Department of Labor reports in the November 2021 issue of its Alaska Economic Trends magazine. “In a typical year, about 23,000 people work in seafood processing.”
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