ALASKA GENERAL SEAFOODS             

Egegik, AK is a small village of just over 100 inhabitants located in the north-east portion of the Alaskan Peninsula. Established at the mouth of the Egegik River on its south bank, Egegik is in a prime location to harvest from the abundance of sockeye travelling through Bristol Bay to spawn in the Egegik River. 

Similar to neighboring Naknek, the climate in Egegik can be very extreme, with summer temperatures ranging between forty-four and sixty-five degrees and winter temperatures dipping as low as twenty-four degrees below zero and rising to as high as forty degrees above zero.  In 2001 the official population of Egegik was 116 people. During the salmon season this number can swell to over 2,000 people when including fishermen and cannery workers. Economically, Egegik has not strayed from its roots - the salmon fishery is still a major element of the local economy.

The first commercial slamon facility to be built in Egegik was a saltery established by the Alaska Packers Assoc. in 1895.   In the early 1930s H.N. Evans built another saltery on the current Alaska General Seafoods (AGS) site. In the eary 1940s Evans sold the saltery to Lloyd Tyo, and soon after, Tyo joined with Jack Hanover, Walt Peterson and the San Juan Fish Packing Co. to build a cannery on the site. In the early 1960s the San Juan Fish Packing Co. sold the facility to the New England Fish Co. (NEFCO), and  NEFCO operated the facility until the late 1970s, after which time Ocean Beauty purchased the operation. Soon after purchasing the site, Ocean Beauty partnered with the Diamond E operation (also in located in Egegik) and moved the canning lines from the Ocean Beauty plant to the Diamond E plant. Ocean Beauty then operated the facility as a fish camp. In 1986 Nelbro Packing Co. purchased the facility and continued to operate it as fish camp. A new bunkhouse and warehouse were built by Nelbro to accommodate the growing fishing fleet. In 1999 Nelbro Packing Co. was merged with Kanaway Seafoods and Alaska Geneal Processors to form Alaska General Seafoods. Today the facility is still being operated by Alaska General Seafoods as a fish camp in support of the Naknek cannery.

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