Northline Seafoods says nobody was hurt in Sunday's fire aboard the Hannah, but its processing capacity is down to about a third of normal.
The Hannah, Northline Seafoods’ floating processor, anchors by Clarks Point in the Nushagak District.
These frozen fish were some of the first sockeye salmon deliveries of the season from Bristol Bay fishing vessels to the Hannah, Northline’s brand-new floating freezer barge in the region.From there they made their way to grading belts, where they were sorted by size and then placed into cold storage for processing later in the year.
But the electrical fire under one of the Hannah’s freezers threw a wrench in that plan. According to Northline, the vessel’s team of marine firefighters were the first to respond to the incident and extinguish the fire. No one was injured. “I think most of us, or all of us, received calls directly from Ben Blakey as to what was going on and what they were trying to do going forward. So there is, I think, a really good transparency,” he said.
A spokesperson for Northline confirmed that all the boats that left have done so voluntarily, and that the Hannah has enough capacity for fish from the vessels that are staying. Northline also confirmed that other processors took fish that had already been delivered by Northline’s fleet to tender boats. OBI confirmed that it took one of those tender loads.
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