Silver Bay Seafoods will be buying salmon in all Prince William Sound drift and seine fisheries in 2026, and we will continue to provide fleet services in Cordova. Given the low salmon forecasts in PWS, we've developed an operational plan that prioritizes fishermen opportunity and economics, with processing planned in Valdez and Seward.
We've asked the company for clarification, but presumably this means Silver Bay will not process salmon this season at its plant in Cordova, the main port for the gillnet fleet targeting famed Copper River salmon.
13 comments:
Feel for Corodva.
If they pull all their drift fish to Seward and Valdez they won't be a competitive market...
Silver Bay should sell the Cordova plant to someone who can use it. Cordova fisherman better stop selling them fish If they have any backbone
It's same with port moller just rented it to keep closed so no one will come in, they know what there doing.
Branson and SBS are bringing truth and financial responsibility to the PWS salmon fishery. OBI and Copper River know not what they did to destroy a once-strong local fishery.
Maybe they could run all the plants on a small year and go out business like everyone else.
Let’s face it, the OB infrastructure in Cordova is among the weakest of all of the SBS plants. It makes no sense to operate slow and at a loss when they can move the fish elsewhere.
Woodruff had neither the heart or the balls to close this operation. It makes sense, as long as salmon are still being harvested, and the fisherman are still being serviced.
You would think with Chignik constantly trying to shut down area M and SBS new plant in false pass they would consider not providing tender service to chignik
I see the silver Bay boot lickers are out in force. If it doesn't make financial sense for them to run the plant then they ought to sell it to someone who can make sense of it. Any idiot knows having 4 plants in PWS doesn't make sense so by keeping them all they are doing it only to prevent competitors. by mothballing Cordova vs seward or valdez they are telling Cordovans what they think of them.
Hopefully silverbay wont give them a market so more escapement so pavolof will open in july what the board took away from area m in july. Dologoi and pavolof main spot all false pass, King cove fleet fishes in july. Now all fleet are going to fish in sand point, so more kings and more shut downs. Like the board had this all planned out to shut area m down.
Make an offer, and make sense of it. Everything's for sale in this world. Good Luck, Valdez and Seward have a highway. Maybe print up some more of those "Stop the Copper River Highway" bumper stickers, one of my favorites at SBS!
Over capacity doesn’t benefit anyone you could end up fishing for a company like the one that operated in king cove last!
The operating costs are so much lower on the road system. Boats have Propellors and 18 Wheelers have Tires. I would've thought somebody in Cordova would have understood where that Jones Act of 1920 came from, when that Copper River Railroad owned the Alaska Steamship Company with J.P. Morgan and the Alaska Syndicate. They still don't get it.
Post a Comment