Hope McKenney

By HOPE MCKENNEY • KUCB Dutch Harbor 115 workers who have been quarantined in Sand Point and Anchorage arrived back in Akutan over the past several days to help with crab and cod processing, the company said. It’s preparing to resume pollock processing this week.CREDIT LAURA KRAEGEL/KUCB Trident Seafoods’ huge processing plant on the remote Aleutian island of …

January 29, 2021 by Hope McKenney, KUCB – Unalaska Akutan Volcano overshadows the village of Akutan and the Trident seafood plant, which has nearly 1,000 workers (Courtesy Helena Buurman/Alaska Volcano Observatory) COVID-19 has hit another processing plant operated by fishing giant Trident Seafoods — this time aboard one of the corporation’s massive factory trawlers, the Island Enterprise. …

January 27, 2021 by Hope McKenney, KUCB – Unalaska Trident Seafoods has only tested about half of its 700 workers, and officials say they think the outbreak is still on what they call an upward trajectory. (Laura Kraegel/KUCB) A COVID-19 outbreak at one of Alaska’s largest fish processing plants has infected nearly 20% of workers with testing …

January 20, 2021 by Hope McKenney, KUCB – Unalaska The four cases mark the first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak at any of Trident’s Alaska facilities. (Laura Kraegel/KUCB) A second seafood processing plant in the Aleutian Islands has been hit with COVID-19 infections as the busy winter pollock fishing season is set to kick off. The U.S. Coast Guard …

GCI’s proposed project would bring undersea fiber optic cable from Kodiak to Unalaska, spanning approximately 860 miles.CREDIT COURTESY OF GCI by Hope McKenney–KUCB, GCI says it won’t move forward with bringing broadband communications to Unalaska at this time unless they receive a large grant from the USDA. The company has put in an application for …