Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle)
Fish Story
Matthew Doherty builds Seattle's U.S. Seafoods into one of the industry's pioneers

“For a week in early January, Matthew Doherty kept his 295-foot fishing vessel Seafreeze Alaska at dockside in Seattle, running one of its engines on a mixture of fish oil and diesel.

The engine didn't self-destruct as he feared it might, and Doherty now plans to install a fish oil plant aboard the vessel next time it's in the shipyard. He figures that extracting fish oil from unused fish parts and unusable fish will be a more complete use of a natural resource. And burning the oil will cut diesel consumption, allowing him to keep his vessel on the fishing grounds longer.”

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Fishing News International
Groundfish gear sets Alaska record

“Trawl gear supplied by a Norwegian company has been cited by a skipper as the main reason his vessel has landed 1980 tonnes of flatfish in three trips – 1000 tonnes more than any other vessel on the Alaskan Grounds.

Seafreeze Alaska has gear from Selstad AS, which skipper Boi Njardvik says has led to the huge landings at Dutch harbour in Alaska since the season opened on January 20.”

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