Alaska Seafood Processing Leadership Institute
Leadership training program for seafood processors returns
Alaska Sea Grant is inviting applications for the Alaska Seafood Processing Leadership Institute (ASPLI), a professional development program for rising leaders in the seafood processing business. The 80-hour training begins…
Read More“Now I do a lot of delegating”
Sam Nothstine is an expediter at Kwik’pak Fisheries in Emmonak, a western Alaska village at the mouth of the Yukon River. His job involves seafood quality control, shipping, administration, safety…
Read MoreFuture Alaska seafood leaders complete week of training
Some of the biggest seafood processors operating in Alaska sent their top cadre of workers to the Alaska Seafood Processing Leadership Institute in Kodiak this fall. The institute, called ASPLI, is one of the state’s leading training programs serving Alaska’s seafood industry, which employs nearly 57,000 workers. As the state’s largest manufacturing sector, seafood processors produced 2.7 billion pounds of Alaska products in Alaska in 2016, with a wholesale vaue of $4.2 billion, according to McDowell Group.
Read MoreTraining institute grooms future seafood industry leaders
Seafood is big business in Alaska. To help boost the industry and its leadership careers, Alaska Sea Grant will offer a training program that starts in November. It’s called the Alaska Seafood Processing Leadership Institute.
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