Industry Fishery Products Seafood Founder Kjell Inge Røkke Type Limited liability company | Key people Bernt O. Bodal (CEO) CEO Bernt O. Bodal (2000–) Founded June 1987 | |
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Website www.americanseafoods.com Headquarters Seattle, Washington, United States | ||
American seafoods
American Seafoods Company is one of the largest seafood companies in North America and one of the largest harvesters of fish in the world. Based in Seattle, Washington, ASC owns and operates six large catcher-processor vessels that harvest and process on board fish caught in the U.S. waters of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The company is well known for its products made from Alaska pollock, Pacific (whiting) hake, Yellowfin sole, and Pacific cod. These products are sold throughout North America, Asia and Europe. American Seafoods Company is the largest harvester in the U.S. Bering Sea Alaska Pollock fishery with approximately 45% of the catcher-processor market share.
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American Seafoods Company is owned by American Seafoods Group Consolidated, LLC. The corporate officers of American Seafoods Group are Bernt Bodal, Chairman and CEO; Brad Bodenman, CFO and Treasurer; Scott McNair, Executive Vice President of Finance and Business Development; Matthew Latimer, Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel.
Other officers of the company include Inge Andreassen, President of American Seafoods Company and John Cummings, President of American Marine Ingredients, a subsidiary of American Seafoods Group.
History
Social and Environmental Responsibility
All four species harvested by American Seafoods – Pacific (hake) whiting, Alaska Pollock, Yellowfin sole, and Pacific cod – are certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Those fish harvested in Alaska are also certified as responsibly-managed by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute’s Responsible Fisheries Management program. In 1997 American Seafoods created a Community Advisory Board which provides financial support and assistance to Alaskan organizations. Since its founding, more than $1,250,000 has been given to organizations benefitting rural Alaskans. American Seafoods is a founding member of SeaShare, an organization dedicated to hunger relief in the United States. To date, American Seafoods has donated more than 10 million seafood meals to SeaShare. American Seafoods is also a contributing member of the Pollock Conservation Cooperative (PCC) and is on the Advisory Board of the Pollock Conservation Cooperative Research Center at the University of Alaska School of Fisheries and Oceans Sciences .
Products
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 “sidestream” products such as stomachs, bone meal, fish skins, and milt. 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. From its Yellowfin sole catches, American Seafoods produces frozen, whole, round fish and headed and gutted frozen blocks. Pacific Cod are processed into fillet blocks, minced blocks, and headed and gutted products.