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December 13, 2017

Alaska fish processors struggle to find workers

  • Younger local people are less interested in the work than their parents, but hiring foreign workers would mean building new housing.
    • By ALISTAIR GARDINER
    Kodiak Daily Mirror

    KODIAK, Alaska — Kodiak's seafood processors are facing staff shortages as older employees reach retirement age and a younger generation is showing little interest in joining the workforce.

    James Turner, plant manager at Ocean Beauty Seafoods, said that over the salmon season, they were roughly 100 employees short. The processor usually requires about 350-360 workers, but this summer they were down to roughly 230-240.


     
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