American Seafoods

• 1988 – American Seafoods Company founded by Kjell Inge Røkke in Seattle
• 1998 – Following the passage of the American Fisheries Act, 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 buy American Seafoods Company and form American Seafoods Group[1]
• 2001 – American Seafoods Company opens and expands foreign sales offices
  • American Seafoods acquires three freezer longliners 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.

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). The Alaska Pollock fishery is the highest scoring MSC certified, sustainable fishery on Earth. It's also the largest sustainable fishery in the world. Those fish harvested in Alaska are also certified as responsibly-managed by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute's Responsible Fisheries Management program.[2] 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.[3] 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 15 million seafood meals to SeaShare.[4] 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 .[5]

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.[6] 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.[5] From its Yellowfin sole catches, American Seafoods produces frozen, whole, round fish and headed and gutted frozen blocks.[7] Pacific Cod are processed into fillet blocks, minced blocks, and headed and gutted products.[8]

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