American Seafoods

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American Seafoods Company was founded by Kjell Inge Røkke in Seattle in 1988, following the passage of the American Fisheries Act in 1998. American Seafoods and seven other companies form the Pollock Conservation Cooperative. American Seafoods Company received 16.572% of Directed Pollock Fishery.Source: Joint Report of the Pollock Conservation Cooperative and High Seas Catcher's Cooperative: 2000

• 1999 – Bernt Bodal, Centre Partners Management, and two other investors bought American Seafoods Company and form American Seafoods Group{{cite web|url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20000201/4002457/american-seafoods-sold-to-us-group|title=Business - American Seafoods sold to U.S. group - Seattle Times Newspaper|publisher=}}
• 2001 – American Seafoods Company opens and expands foreign sales offices
• American Seafoods acquires three freezer long liners in purchase of Pacific Longline Company
• ASC closes its cryoprotectant additive plant in Kent
• 2002 – American Seafoods Group acquires Southern Pride Catfish Company
• 2006 – Bernt Bodal leads management buyout of Centre Partners interest. Bernt Bodal becomes controlling equity owner
• 2008 – American Seafoods Group acquires catcher-processor Highland Light
• American Seafoods Group sells Southern Pride Catfish Company
• 2010 – American Seafoods buys out CDQ group Coastal Villages. As part of transaction, American Seafoods transfers ownership of Pacific Longline Company and catcher processor Northern Hawk to Coastal Villages. Bernt Bodal becomes majority equity holder of American Seafoods
• 2013 – American Seafoods Group sells American Pride Seafoods to High Liner Foods, Inc.
• 2017 – American Seafoods Group names Mikel Durham CEO.
• 2022 - American Seafoods Group names Einar Gustafsson CEO {{cite web|url=https://www.americanseafoods.com/about-us/news/all-company-news/american-seafoods-announces-ceo-transition|title=American Seafoods Announces CEO Transition|publisher=}}

In 2012, the company built the Bayside Canadian Railway – a {{convert|220|ft|adj=on}} railway in Bayside, New Brunswick – to take advantage of a loophole in the Jones Act that otherwise would have required the company to use US-flagged vessels. It was disassembled in April 2023 after a judge determined it to be noncompliant with the act.{{Cite news |last=Gilboy |first=James |title=Absurd 200-Foot 'Railway' Demolished After Court Closes Shipping Loophole |language=en-US |work=The Drive |url=https://www.thedrive.com/news/absurd-200-foot-railway-demolished-after-court-closes-shipping-loophole |access-date=2023-04-04}}

American Seafoods catches Alaska Pollock in the Eastern Bering Sea. From this catch, American Seafoods produces whole fillet blocks, surimi made from whole fillets and also from flesh recovered during processing, roe, minced pollock blocks, fish oil, white fish meal, and other "side stream" products such as stomachs, bone meal, fish skins, and milt.{{cite web|url=http://americanseafoodscompany.com/products/alaska-pollock|title=Alaska Pollock - American Seafoods CompanyAmerican Seafoods Company|publisher=|access-date=2015-04-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417004335/http://americanseafoodscompany.com/products/alaska-pollock|archive-date=2015-04-17|url-status=dead}}

Pacific (whiting) hake are caught and produced into Pin Bone Out (PBO), Deep Skinned (DS), and Pin Bone In (PBI) whole fillet blocks as well as surimi, headed and gutted fish, minced blocks, white fish meal, and fish oil.{{cite web|url=https://www.sfos.uaf.edu/pcc/|title=Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center - University of Alaska Fairbanks|publisher=}}

From its Yellowfin sole catches, American Seafoods produces frozen, whole, round fish and headed and gutted frozen blocks.{{cite web|url=http://americanseafoodscompany.com/products/yellowfin-sole|title=Yellowfin Sole - American Seafoods CompanyAmerican Seafoods Company|publisher=|access-date=2015-04-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417003216/http://americanseafoodscompany.com/products/yellowfin-sole|archive-date=2015-04-17|url-status=dead}}

Pacific Cod are processed into fillet blocks, minced blocks, and headed and gutted products.{{cite web|url=http://americanseafoodscompany.com/products/pacific-cod|title=Pacific Cod - American Seafoods CompanyAmerican Seafoods Company|publisher=|access-date=2015-04-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150417000001/http://americanseafoodscompany.com/products/pacific-cod|archive-date=2015-04-17|url-status=dead}}

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• [http://www.americanseafoods.com Corporate Homepage]

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