Fish Processors Choose To Stay In Unalaska To Work Both 'A' And 'B' Seasons
Update: 2020-05-07
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In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Unalaska's onshore processing plants have chosen to keep seasonal employees on-island in between fishing seasons. In a rural Alaskan town of 4500 year-round residents, an influx of approximately one thousand international workers — looking for ways to keep busy — is quite a change. UniSea is keeping plant security tight. In order to enter, everyone must pass through a checkpoint and show a company ID or be placed on a list of expected visitors. That check-in is one of many strategies the plant is employing to keep the virus out. Another strategy is keeping workers on the island in between fishing seasons. Usually, processors come from all over the world to this island town. They stay from January to April, for what's known as "A" season, then leave to go home. Many come back for "B" season, from June until September. But this year, UniSea required that anyone who wants to work the "B" season stay on-island for the several weeks between seasons.
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