King Crab, Inc. Growth Phenomenal
Process Crab, Shrimp, Salmon, Halibut
t.King Crab, Inc. was originally
organized in 1953 by Bob Resoff
•and the late Jorgen Fredrickson.
The original operation was strict
ly a winter crab operation. The fol
lowing year (1954) a salmon line
was installed to can four pound
salmon which is known as an in
fd-itatioanl pack. At this time Chris
Kooisom apd Bart Schock, two pi
oneer Alaskans, bought into the
company.
A great deal of experimenta
tion was done in perfecting the
king crab pack for the next several
years. In 1957 a tow pressure cook
was found that gave a more attrac
tive pack and King Crab, Inc. gain
ed Hie distinction of packing for
• & W Fine Foods.
Maud Seafoods, Inc. Was purch
ase d by King Crab, Inc. in the fall
of 1957 and it is now a totally
owned subsidiary of the parent
company. The Island Seafoods
operation was a floater Which in
the spring of 1880 was moved to
Tqggiak for a Bristol Bay operation.
The reforming of crab and
shrimp cans in Alaska was intro
duced by King Crab, Inc. with the
engineering done by Amerrccti
Can Company. This new phase of
.the canning operation provided
more work for local labor and prov- >;j
ed to be a substantial savings on §
freight for the company.
Shrimp experimentation and ex- I
ploratory work had been going on 1
•s a sideline, and in 1958 King f
Crab decided to start canning
shrimp.
This necessitated furtther ex
pansion and construction was be
gun of the additional facilities
which is the major part of the
present plant. The present plant
is twelves tir.'es as large as the
original plant of 1953. In the fall
of 1958 three Skrmetta shrimp J
peelers were installed and that %
December the first shrimp were
canned in Kodiak.
The buying and freezing of hali
but was inaugurated at King Crab, ...
Inc. in the spring of lift). Th* |
pretfbnt cold storage capacity i»
168 tons. Kodiak has »ince been
declared a Customs Port of Entry. «
At the present time an offer has
been made to the City of Kodiak
to purchase the building repossess
ed by the City from Kodiak Ice &
Cold Storage Co. with the pro
position of installing a half million
pound cold storage there and with
an eye to expansion as the business
Warrants it.
In the past year King Crab, Inc.
packed 24.000 cases of salmon,
20.000 cases of crab, and 55,000
cases of shrimp. 400,000 lbs, of
crab in the shell and 200,000 lbs. of
crabmeat were frozen as well as
200.000 lbs. of halibut.
THE GOVERNOR AND THE
KING CRAB— Then governor
of Alaska, Ernest Gruening, who
is now in the U.S. Senate “or
IWWlMJU-l 'llMU mv 1W. 1 m.", umitmm- mown. ■■■■ »-•:>.•
Seven years of wiling the Kadi
;<k Mirror anems to name a tong
time.
That’s the record of Weston
Fields, whn began sotting the
Kodiak Mirror at the age of 6.
He bad te bold eat his hand with
the money and trast to people’s
honesty in making change at
that time, bat not any more.
Congratulations to Weston for
his fine record of service.
Alaska, posed for this one with
one of Kodiaks giant king crab.
»he Governor was very much in
te.ested in the progress of Kodi
ak in becoming an incoporated
city in 1940, and assisted in gett
ing the idea over to the voters.
Mirror classifieds bring results.
TOWN
CLUB
---- ----— ■■
GROWING
WITH
KODIAK
%
KODIAK AND N IRTHERN
Have grown together for 30 years
• (It was back in 1930 that Alaska Packers Association installed
(the first Northern Transmitter, i. Type TT-200, on Kodiak Island.)
We hope to be a part ef Kodiak’s progress
and economic growth during the next 30 years.
NORTHERN ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.
Leading name in radiotelephones throughout Alaska
NEW ADDRESS: 4027 - 21st Avenue West,
Seattle, Washington