FISHING COMPANIES – SEATTLE

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The fleet of ships in the Bering Sea from the listed companies usually falls into the following 3 categories:

Catching fish with the use of a trawl net – processing and freezing of the product takes place directly on the ship. When the net is set, we wait between 30 minutes and 4 hours before hauling the net, depending on how much fish is on board waiting for processing, or in the net.

Possible names:

  • factory trawler
  • freezer trawler
  • catcher processor
  • fishing vessel
  • dragger

FISHING COMPANIES – THE LIST

fishing boats in Seattle


Aleutian Spray Fisheries Inc.

2157 North Northlake Way Suite 210, Seattle, WA 98103

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • my overall impression – content rich website, many boats, boats look well maintained
  • many different types of boats for gaining bigger variety of experiences
  • cool website about one of their crab boats
  • it is a family owned company
  • APA member, partners for healthy fisheries
  • Alaska Pollock, Pacific Cod, Crab
Employment potential: 6/-
Boat types: 3 factory trawler, 2 freezer longliner, 1 crabber

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American Seafoods Company

2025 1st Ave #900, Seattle, WA 98121

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • my overall impression – content rich website, many boats, boats look well maintained
  • APA member, partners for healthy fisheries
  • Alaska Pollock, Pacific Cod, Yellowfin Sole, Pacific Hake
  • they got caught cheating = big trouble!
  • interesting story
  • they might have a limited season/consequence of cheating? – I saw 5 of their boats in Seattle docks in April 2014
Employment potential: 6/768
Boat types: 6 factory trawler

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Arctic Storm Management Group

Pier 69, 2727 Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA 98121

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • recommended by my co-worker
  • from what I heard they work 2 shifts; 12 hours on/12 hours off
  • they don’t fish year-round – main seasons only
  • crew share
  • my overall impression – boats look well maintained
  • APA member, partners for healthy fisheries
  • mainly Pollock
  • workers were sweating more than usual
Employment potential: 2/261
Boat types: 2 factory trawler

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Cape Romanzov Fisheries

4502 14th Ave NW, Seattle, WA

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • Lady from human resources helped me with my job search by excluding companies with bad reputation from my list – later I found out that she was right.
  • my overall impression – content rich website
  • smaller boats = more adrenaline (they fish for crab too)
  • crew share
  • Cod fish, Crab
  • Accidents happen, viz. comment
Employment potential: 2/-
Boat types: both boats catch and process their catch

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Blue North Fisheries Inc.

2930 Westlake Ave N #300, Seattle, WA 98109

Reasons for listing + little info:

Employment potential: 6/113
Boat types: 6 freezer longliner

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Clipper Seafoods

641 W Ewing St, Seattle, WA 98119

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • my co-worker recommended this company
  • complaint – but maybe this guy complained too much
  • my overall impression – content rich website
  • smaller boats = more adrenaline
  • Cod fish, Sablefish, Turbot, Pollock…
Employment potential: 7/-
Boat types: 7 freezer longliner

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Fisherman’s Finest

570 Kirkland Way Kirkland, WA 98033

Reasons for listing + little info:

Employment potential: 2/-
Boat types: 2 factory trawler

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Glacier Fish Company LLC

2320 West Commodore Way #200, Seattle, WA 98199

Reasons for listing + little info:

Employment potential: 3/300
Boat types: 3 factory trawler

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Iquique US LLC

4257 24th Ave W, Seattle, WA 98199

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • Alaska Seafood Cooperative member = top company
  • my overall impression – content rich website, boats look well maintained
  • good reputation among fishermen
  • Flatfish, Cod, Pollock, Rockfish
Employment potential: 4/138
Boat types: 4 factory trawler

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O’Hara Corporation

4315 11th Ave NW, Seattle, WA, 98107

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • Alaska Seafood Cooperative member = top company
  • good reputation among fishermen
  • first time I applied, I was refused – they accept experienced fishermen only
  • mainly Flatfish
Employment potential: 6/-
Boat types: 3 factory trawler

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Ocean Peace Inc.

4201 21st Ave W, Seattle, WA 98199

Reasons for listing + little info:

Employment potential: 2/100
Boat types: 2 factory trawler

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Trident Seafoods Corporation

5303 Shilshole Ave. N.W.,Seattle, WA 98107-4000

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • APA member, partners for healthy fisheries
  • big company with wide range of activities not just in the Bering Sea – good opportunity for gaining different experiences
  • visiting the office is not going to do much help, they only accept on-line applications
  • workers get paid by case rate
  • company video
  • interview takes place outside Seattle
  • bigger company = higher assurances = potentially lower wages and impersonal attitude – I got references from my co-workers – this does not mean it is a bad company
Employment potential: 40/-
Boat types: 16 factory trawlers (13 trawl catchers), 6 crab catchers, 12 tenders (Salmon, Crab), 3 processors (processing catch only), 3 freighters (for storage)

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United States Seafoods LLC

6901 West Marginal Way Southwest, Seattle, WA 98106

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • Alaska Seafood Cooperative member = top company
  • my overall impression – content rich website
  • cool movies about the job on their website
  • good reputation among fishermen I worked with
  • crew share
  • Flatfish, Atka Mackerel…
Employment potential: 9/195
Boat types: 5 factory trawler, 4 catcher boats

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Deep Sea Fisheries

3900 Railway Ave., Everett, WA 98201

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • ask around about this company
  • they do “both”:
    • salmon season – Bristol Bay
    • outside salmon season – Bering Sea – Crab, Pacific Cod, Sablefish…
Employment potential: 6/-
Boat types: 3 catcher/processor, 3 tender (salmon fishing)

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Alaska Leader Fisheries Inc.

8874 Bender Rd, Ste 201, Lynden, WA 98264

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • my overall impression – content rich website, boats look well maintained
  • office is quite far from Seattle – close to the border with Canada
  • ask around about this company
  • new boat F/V Northern Leader – innovative fishing
Employment potential: 4?(3)/80
Boat types: 4?(3) freezer longliner

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Ocean Beauty Seafoods LLC

1100 West Ewing Street, Seattle, Washington 98119

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • big company – they have plants all over the world
  • great opportunity for entering the fishing industry
  • beautiful, content rich website
Employment potential: high
Boat types: processing plants only

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Icicle Seafoods Inc.

4019 21st Ave W, Seattle, WA 98199

Reasons for listing + little info:

Employment potential: many processing boats and many processing plants located in different coastal regions of Alaska
Boat types: 4 processing boats

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Peter Pan Seafoods

Denny Building, 2200 6th Ave #10, Seattle, WA 98121

Reasons for listing + little info:

Employment potential: 4 processing plants
Boat types: processing plants only

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Premier Pacific Seafoods

111 W Harrison St, Seattle, WA 98119

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • ask around about this company – almost everytime I was in Seattle, I saw their boat M/V Excellence in the Seattle docks
  • very modest website
Employment potential: 2/-
Boat types: 2 processing boats

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Signature Seafoods

4257 24th Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98199

Reasons for listing + little info:

  • very limited season – June to September
  • small company
  • ask around about this company
Employment potential: -/-
Boat types: 1 processing plant, 1 processing boat

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