Trident Seafoods is gearing up for the largest snow crab harvest in more than a decade.
Owners of the largest crab processing facility on the planet on St. Paul Island, Trident Seafoods will add about 50 employees this season to increase its production capability to about 500,000 pounds per day.
The facility typically employs about 400 people during peak operations with a capacity of 450,000 pounds per day, but with nearly 42 million pounds of snow crab, or opilio, designated for delivery to the North Region in 2012 more workers are needed.
When the Bering Sea crab fisheries were rationalized beginning in the 2005-06 season, regional landing requirements were put in place to protect historical processing participation by communities.
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