Onboard Starbound, the Flottweg equipment is used to separate the meat from the liquid. The challenge led the company to Flottweg Separation Technology, which engineers and manufactures two-phase and three-phase separation equipment. This required installing a meal plant and an oil plant. Three years ago, Aleutian wanted to increase productivity and diversify its production. The company catches Alaska Pollock in the Bering Sea and then processes it in a fully-functional plant onboard the ship. The Alaska Pollock Fishery has been certified as sustainable by the London-based Marine Stewardship Council. The firm participates in what are arguably the world's best managed fisheries. The fishing fleet includes the at-sea processor Starbound and the mobile armada of freezer-longline and combination fishing vessels. Aleutian Spray Fisheries products are fully processed and quickly frozen or stored in refrigerated seawater. The upgraded vessel includes onboard fishmeal and surimi processing plants. The firm was among the pioneers of the Americanization of vast stocks of Bering Sea groundfish that had formerly been harvested, processed and marketed by foreign fleets. Rising prices of fishmeal and oil led to the ambitious retrofit of Starbound in 2016. Each vessel was built in Pacific Northwest shipyards to the Swasand family's exacting specifications. Today the firm's fleet also includes three Longliner vessels as well as partnerships with two research vessels. During the crab industry's peak, the Aleutian Spray Fisheries fleet grew to include the fishing vessels Starfish, Nordic Star, Starward and Starlite. Today, a third generation of Swasands is active in the management of Aleutian Spray Fisheries. As the firm grew during the 1970s, due to the rapid growth in the Bering Sea King crab fishery, other members of the Swasand family joined their father. It was a complete overhaul of the processing operations and required heavy-duty, highly-efficient Flottweg Decanters and a Tricanter.Īleutian Spray Fisheries was established in 1969 by Naval Architect Henry Swasand with the acquisition of the crab vessel Aleutian Spray. Three years ago, its owner, Aleutian Spray Fisheries, Inc., decided to cut it in half to expand the processing operation and add a meal plant, oil plant and two surimi lines to the then 240-foot vessel. The fishing vessel Starbound is a 300-foot, 1,042-ton catcher/processor that harvests Alaska Pollock in the Bering Sea and processes it on board into boneless-skinless filets, mince and surimi.

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