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Article: Princess of the ball. (efforts to improve the packaging of Alaska's pink salmon)
- Article from:
- Alaska Business Monthly
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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In recent years, pink salmon has been the ugly step sister of Alaska's salmon family. Prices have dived as low as a nickel a pound. Buyers couldn't always be found. Fishermen and processors faced the prospect of losing money. At the other end of the continuum, consumers were not thrilled with a product and package that remained virtually unchanged since prospectors came to the north country a century ago. Opening a can to find skin, bones, and dark, fishy-smelling contents just didn't make it in this microwave age.
Arctic Alaska Seafoods Inc. (no connection to the Seattle based Tyson Foods unit with a similar name) had a marvelous idea; one right out of Cinderella. ...