APA’s Fish Links

Doing Research? We suggest these sites:

National Marine Fisheries Service --(NMFS) Alaska Homepage Status of fisheries, catch statistics, news releases, weather and more.

Alaska Fisheries Science Center -- The National Marine Fisheries Service research branch responsible for fisheries research for the federal waters off Alaska and the west coast of the United States.

North Pacific Fishery Management Council -- One of the eight regional councils established by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Management Conservation Act to oversee management of the nation's fisheries. The Council has primary responsibility for groundfish management in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) and Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI).

North Pacific Marine Mammal Research Consortium -- A consortium of Pacific Northwest Universities conducting research into the relation of between fisheries and marine mammals in the North Pacific and Eastern Bering Sea. Research thus far has centered on the Steller sea lion.

National Marine Mammal Laboratory --(NMML) is a division of the NMFS responsible for conducting research on marine mammals, with particular attention to issues related to marine mammals off the coasts of Oregon, Washington and Alaska.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration --(NOAA) A division of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce. NOAA oversees the National Marine Fisheries Service.

FAO Fisheries Page -- The fisheries arm of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

Need industry news and links?

Gadus Associates -- The web's ultimate index of marine fisheries links.

IntraFish Media --The world’s leading seafood industry news provider, covering the seafood, fisheries and aquaculture industry through its monthly printed titles and its Web site, IntraFish.com.

National Fisheries Institute --(NFI) A trade association representing more than 1,000 companies in all aspects of the fish and seafood industry.

Seafood.com --The leader in all things seafood.

Seeking Product/Service Information?
The following APA Members and Associate Members have Internet Websites:

Alaska Air Forwarding Freight Management Systems
-- Full service transportation. Weekly ocean consolidation to Dutch Harbor. Air freight to/from Alaska. Procurement logistics from lower forty-eight and international origins via air and surface transport.

Alaska Ship & Dry Dock, Inc.
-- Full service ship building and repair.

Alaskan Observers
-- Contractor for federally-trained observers who serve as monitors onboard fishing vessls

Alfa Tec, Inc.
-- A leading marine and industrial equipment sales and repair serving the marine, oilfield, and food processing industries. Exclusive Factory Authorized stocking distributor for Alfa Laval, Ampco Pumps, Sigma Oily Water Separators, Omnipure Marine Sanitation Devices, and Aqua Chem Osmosis Watermakers. Serving the Pacific Northwest, British Columbia, California, Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida, American Samoa, Guam and Saipan.

American Seafoods Company
-- Producers of pollock roe, surimi, fillets and fishmeal, as well as Pacific whiting, and Pacific cod products.

Ballard Oil Company
-- Mobil lubricants, marine fuels, Westfalia Centrifuge and Luberfiner filters.

Bellingham Cold Storage
-- Freezing, processing, cold storage and ice service in Bellingham, Washington.

Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Travel agency specializing in the travel needs of the fishing industry with service locations in Anchorage, Dutch Harbor and Seattle.

Cascade Machinery and Electric
-- Sales and service of pumps motors, and air compressors.

City of Unalaska
-- Unalaska is the nation's number one commercial fishing port. It has been for many years a major support center for many APA vessels providing port services and many other services to the fleet.

CITYICE Cold Storage
--Cold storage; warehousing; distribution rail car loading; marine terminal for direct vessel discharge.

Cloud Trading/Fairn & Swanson
-- Sea stores/duty-free, alcohol, beer, wine, candy and soda.

Coastal Villages Pollock
-- Bering Sea pollock, pollock roe; surimi, fillets; fishmeal and fish oil.

Delta Western, Inc.
-- Providing fuel and lubricant needs in Alaska for more than 25 years.

Fishermen's News
-- Founded in 1945, Fishermen’s News is the oldest commercial fishing publication on the Pacific Coast, and the only independently owned commercial fishing publication in the market. We focus on the business issues affecting the West Coast commercial fishing fleet.

Garvey Schubert Barer
-- Providing legal services for the fishing industry.

Glacier Fish Company, LLC
-- Producers of pollock roe, fillets and surimi, as well as Pacific whiting, and Pacific cod products.

Global Insurance Specialists, LLC
-- GIS is an insurance agency that specializes in providing insurance to all aspects of the marine/seafood community.

Hagen, Kurth, Perman & Co. P.S.
-- Fishing industry consultants providing a broad range of tax, accounting, financial statement and consulting services, including expertise in capital construction funds and interest charge discs, while developing long-term professional business relationships with closely held companies and individuals.

Horizon Lines
-- Containerized ocean transport to/from Alaska with direct weekly and twice-weekly vessel calls in Dutch Harbor, Kodiak and Anchorage.

Jensen Maritime Consultants, Inc.
-- Naval architects, marine engineers, engineering management and marine consultants.

Kaman Industrial Technologies
-- Industrial sales of bearings, sprockets, chain, electric motors; hydraulic pumps, conveyer belts, motors and valves; v-belts, sheaves, bushings and related power transmission items.

Kibble & Prentice
-- Kibble & Prentice understands the complex issues the fishing industry faces. We have specialists in health & welfare benefits, retirement plan services, executive benefits, property & casualty insurance, as well as private client services.

Lafferty's Pharmacy
-- Medical supplies, prescription medication, flu-shots, sundries and other ship store supplies.

Landis & Associates
-- Landis & Associates represents maritime employers as a third party administrator for unemployment claims. Landis minimizes an employer’s unemployment tax liability by managing all aspects of the controllable complex business operating expense.

LD Foods
-- LD Foods LLC is a subsidiary of Keystone Foods Corporation, one of the largest privately owned food processors and distributors in the U.S. with operations in 15 countries. LD Foods supplies frozen seafood to the foodservice industry. The company is in its third decade of operations and national distribution to the nation’s largest restaurant chain, McDonalds.

Longview Fibre Company
-- Corrugated shipping containers and totes.

Marel Seattle, Inc.
-- Manufacturers of stainless steel products for the food and fishing industry.

Marine Conservation Alliance
-- Research on, education about and advocacy for science-based sustainable use of North Pacific marine resources.

Maxum Petroleum
-- Providing the delivery of quality fuel and lubricants to the factory trawler fleet throughout the Puget Sound area.

McGladrey & Pullen LLP
-- Tax and business planning and consulting, business valuations, financial statements and tax returns.

Mundt MacGregor L.L.P.
-- Attorneys at Law specializing in fisheries, quota share transactions, License Limitation issues, maritime, Coast Guard documentation, immigration and litigation.

Natural Resources Consultants, Inc.
-- Natural Resources Consultants, Inc. (NRC) provides comprehensive fisheries consulting in the fields of resource assessment, sustained yield management, conservation, development, marketing and expert witness analysis/testimony.

Naust Marine USA
-- Supply of winches and ATW winch controls for Electrical winches in fishing vessel. AutoGen power management systems for generators in vessels.

Nielsen Shields PLLC
-- Nielsen Shields provides a full range of legal services to the maritime industry.

North Pacific Fuel
-- Provide sales and delivery of marine fuels and lubricants throughout Western Alaska. Warehousing, storage, and equipment rentals are available in Dutch Harbor.

Northland Services, Inc.
-- Common carrier tug and barge company offering regular scheduled service between Seattle and major ports of call in Alaska.

NPFVOA Vessel Safety Program
-- A non-profit association for commercial fishermen, totally dedicated to safety education and hands-on safety training, and environmental issues as they relate to public health and safety. NPFVOA was developed in cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard in 1985.

NSF Surefish
-- Your single source for verifying Seafood, Safety, and Quality through Seafood HACCP evaluations, development, training and consultation; Chemical (water analysis) Microbiological, Radiological and DNA testing; Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), ASC, and GAA/ Best Aquaculture Practices Certifications; Product Evaluations (inspections) and Assessment from primary processor to end product user. Servicing Globally with offices in Seattle, Bellingham, Dutch Harbor, Boston (servicing the East Coast), Korea, Vietnam, Thailand (servicing southeast Asia), South and Central America.

Offshore Systems, Inc.
-- OSI is a full-service marine terminal in Dutch Harbor offering diesel, lubricants, warehousing, cold storage, freight and product handling.

Pacific Fishing Magazine
-- A monthly publication with an emphasis on business and issues related to the commercial fishing industry.

Perkins Coie, LLP
-- Provides environmental and regulatory counsel on all state and federal matters.

Port of Bellingham
-- Consider Bellingham as a base for fishing vessels, processors and fishing industry support. Three deep draft piers, power, vendors, over 65 acres of available land, warehouse space, nearby airport, cold storage, and processing.

Port of Seattle
-- Port of Seattle provides moorage, cargo handling facilities, office and warehouse space, yard area, and equipment rental to support all maritime sectors including the North Pacific fishing fleet.

Puget Sound Accounting, Inc.
-- Accounting, bookkeeping, and office management for vessel owners and related seafood industry businesses. In business since 1979.

Puglia Engineering/Fairhaven Shipyard
-- Accounting, bookkeeping, and office management for vessel owners and related seafood industry businesses. In business since 1979.

Rena International
-- Cartolit fishblock liners, Bo Anderson freezer frames, Fiskevegn longline gear, BFG longline systems, Eagle Claw fishing hooks, Ovatek rigid life rafts, full spectrum of packaging products, including; solid fibre boxes, cartons, corrugated boxes, poly, paper/polywoven bags (H&G bags), polywoven bags (fish meal bags), labels, marking, etc.

Rogge
-- Full food service supplier: groceries, produce, meats, dairy, frozen foods, bakery items, cleaning supplies, housekeeping & galley equipment.

Samson Tug and Barge
-- Year-round scheduled barge service from Seattle to Sitka, Valdez, Cordova, Kodiak, King Cove, and Dutch Harbor. Alaskan owned and operated.

Sea State, Inc.
-- Provide catch and bycatch monitoring services for the fleet, as well as custom written software for individual companies.

SeaShare
-- SeaShare is a non-profit agency that links the seafood industry to food banks.

Servco Insurance Services
-- Servco Insurance Services specializes in insurance for maritime related industries, offering a full range of marine, property, casualty, employee benefits and personal lines products.

Sound Ocean Metal Fabricators, LTD
-- Design, fabricate and install seafood processing equipment for H&G, fillet, surimi and surimi analogue lines. All inclusive service for processing equipment, wastewater treatment, fish meal and metal fabrication.

Starbound, LP
-- Products: pollock block, mince, roe; Cod block, and surimi.

Surefish Seafood Quality Specialists
-- Seafood quality inspections, HACCP consulting, QC training, surimi testing, auditing, MSC, water analysis lab (Dutch Harbor). Offices in Seattle, Bellingham, Dutch Harbor, Vietnam, and Korea.

Trident Seafoods Corporation
-- Products: Bering Sea pollock, pollock roe, fillets, fishmeal and fish oil.

Van Ness Feldman
-- Provides corporate, legislative, litigation, regulatory and transactional services at the state and federal levels for the commercial fishing industry.

Vigor Marine LLC
-- Build, repair, convert and maintain factory trawlers and commercial vessels.

Viking Bank
-- Full service bank providing lending and deposit/saving services to businesses and individuals.

Wells Fargo Insurance Services
-- All lines of insurance and bonds, with a strong emphasis on insurance and risk management for the seafood industry.

Want to suggest a Web site? Drop us a line -- melinda@atsea.org.

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The Alaska pollock fishery meets the MSC’s environmental standard for a well-managed and sustainable fishery. For information about Alaska pollock products, please contact APA member companies directly or visit the Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers website at www.alaskapollock.org.