ASTORIA, Ore. — One of the West Coast's biggest fish companies, Pacific Seafood, has told a federal judge it isn't going through with the purchase of a Washington state processor that fishermen have challenged in an antitrust case.
Commercial fishermen contend the purchase of the Ocean Gold Seafoods plant at Westport will extend Pacific Seafood's monopoly power over fish markets.
The plant is a major processor of whiting, which is used in simulated crab products and sold as fillets. It's the most abundant commercial species on the West Coast.
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