Seafood Industry Revs Up For Summer Hires

Jun. 3, 2002
No. 02-30

Labor Department Expects Demand for Workers

Seafood industry employers are gearing up for the salmon and pollock processing season, the largest commercial summer fisheries in Alaska, and the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development is encouraging interested workers to apply early through any of its 23 Alaska Job Centers located around the state.

Labor's Employment Security Division, through the  Alaska Job Bank, has listings for nearly 60 job orders from seafood production companies with openings from Quinhagak in Western Alaska to Bristol Bay to Petersburg in Southeast Alaska.

Jobs advertised are aboard at-sea processors, in shore-based processing plants and hatchery facilities, with hourly wages from $6.00 to $7.50 per hour. Some employers provide transportation plus room and board amenities.

More highly skilled and better paid seafood industry positions this season include: captain for a tender out of Nome, dock foreman in Homer, fish sampler in Dillingham, production equipment technician in Sitka, controller in Cordova and fisheries technician I/II/III positions, with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, in various parts of the state.

Several large salmon seafood processors including North Pacific Processors, Icicle Seafoods and Ocean Beauty Seafoods will be interviewing over the next few weeks at the Midtown Anchorage Job Center, 3301 Eagle Street. To set up an interview with an employer in Anchorage call 269-4775 or 269-4708. Interested workers outside the Anchorage area should contact their nearest Alaska Job Center or go to "Seafood Jobs" then click on "Current Openings" or call 1-800-473-0688.
 

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