Trident--Akutan

We headed over to the processing plant here after work one day this week, and as the winds were reaching 100 mph in and around Akutan, most of the fishing boats were huddled at Trident for the day. Lorraine took us on one of the boats (her husband is an engineer at Trident). Trident's Akutan shore plant is the largest seafood production facility in North America, sustaining a year-round frozen seafood operation capable of processing over 3 million pounds of fish per day. Depending on the season, it produces a full range of products (fillets, blocks, surimi, fishmeal and oil) from Alaska pollock. It processes Alaska king and snow crab, as well as Pacific halibut. It can house as many as 825 employees at a time.