Appliance Repair Services: Bering Pacific Seafoods To Expand

Friday, December 14, 2012

Bering Pacific Seafoods To Expand

December 14th 2:02 pm Hannah Heimbuch

A recent expansion at Bering Pacific Seafoods in False Pass is aiming to double the plant's workforce and significantly boost its processing and storage capacity.

"One of the expansion areas is the cold storage," said shoreside operations general manager Ken Smith. "We had a cold storage that would hold approximately 160,000 lbs now with the new expansion we're going to have about a million pounds capacity."

Smith, originally from False Pass, is expecting the expansion to translate into an economic and population boost for the small Aleutian

community. Chief Operating Officer John Sevier agrees.

BPS is owned and operated by the Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association (APICDA), which makes its money from IFQs and CDQs in the halibut and black cod fisheries.

"The money that we're making is coming from western Alaska," Sevier said. "And we're reinvesting in western Alaska."

The plant's expansion is expected to turn the facility into a year-round processor. That increase in operating time and capacity will hopefully mean an increase in community infrastructure and year-round residents, Smith said. BPS will increase its bunkhouse size to accommodate its expanded workforce.

The increase in cold storage means BPS will be able to build up a much higher volume of its final products headed for distribution, instead of stopping at 160,000 pounds and waiting for the weekly barge. This increases the amount of raw product they're able to buy weekly, from a half million pounds to 3 or 4 million.

The expansion includes that cold storage, an off-load station linked to the boat harbor, a generator house, an 80- by 80-foot new steel building, and a case-up area between the new building and the new cold storage.

New fuel tanks to handle an increase in energy use will also be added.

Construction has been underway for a few months now, Sevier said, and they are shooting for an Aug. 1 completion date. Dawson construction out of Ketchikan has been handling phase one of the project, while the phase two contractor has yet to be decided, Sevier said.

Smith and Sevier are optimistic about the plant's capacity to take on processing of new species with this expansion, along with their continued production of salmon, halibut and sable fish.

New products in the Pacific cod, pollock and crab fisheries are hopefully endeavors for the near future, he said.

Overall the project has been a successful one with a lot of potential, Sevier said.

"It's been extremely efficient," he said. "The people we had in there doing the project have been really good to work with."

Smith and Sevier look forward to seeing the newly expanded plant in action this coming summer and hope to see the False Pass community blossom with the benefit of an economic boost.

"The key component here is that we're spending millions of dollars back into False Pass," Sevier said. "We are taking in some money but we're also putting a lot of money back into the community."

The total cost of the project is estimated at $11 million, according to an Aleutians East Borough newsletter. Community and business leaders hope that investment means a win-win for both BPS and the False Pass community.

Hannah Heimbuch can be reached at hheimbuch@reportalaska.com.

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