Trident Seafoods Cannery

Monday night was steak night at the cannery cafeteria, so we headed down there with some new friends to enjoy their buffet. They have a salad bar, which is prime, because the only fresh green they have at the grocery store here is iceberg lettuce, which is literally iceberg lettuce, a little wilty when it thaws. Plus, does that white crunchy part hold any nutritional value whatsoever? The cannery reminds Sarah of her Prison Health Services days in Naples. In Anchorage, they say, "So you're headed down to Sand Point? You know, there's a girl behind every tree on that island!" The truth is that there are no trees in Sand Point--the winds are too high. Of course, that means that there aren't too many women around, either. The key is to just keep looking straight ahead. Sarah's dad taught her never, never, under any circumstances, to turn her head when she hears a whistle, and she feels like a stud walking with shoulders back and her knife in her back pocket, even though she looks pretty wimpy no matter what. Trident operates year-round, processing cod, Black cod, Halibut, Pollock, Salmon and other bottomfish. The facility can process up to 600,000 pounds of cod, 1.2 million pounds of pollock, or 350,000 pounds of salmon daily. Depending on the season, the Sand Point Trident plant employs 50-400 guys.