Seafood Producers Cooperative
Seafood Producers Cooperative is owned by over 575 members who fish the waters of the North Pacific. Each member is a small boat hook and line fisherman and owner of the cooperative, and therefore receives the benefits of ownership.
Seafood Producers Cooperative serves families of small boat fishermen and the health of coastal communities by combining two alternative business models—the small family fishing boat and the cooperative. Their cooperative was founded to serve fishermen by getting the fairest price for their catch and giving them access to processing and packaging that they wouldn’t be able to achieve working on their own.
The co-op’s main processing plant is in Sitka, Alaska, although it has outports in other parts of Southeast Alaska, Washington and Northern California. The co-op’s business offices are in Bellingham, Washington.
Tammy Lin of Seafood Producers Cooperative
Of Seafood Producers Cooperative’s members, 397 call Alaska home, and 216 of these have Sitka as their mailing address. Another 100 members winter in Washington while about 75 do so in Northern California. Some members winter in places as far away as Vermont and Florida. Many of their members fish with family, either as husband-wife teams, and/or with their children. Others hire deck hands while a number of their members fish alone, enjoying the special connection they have with the ocean.
