American Seafoods Group, LLC (ASG) is an American seafood company. Based in

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, ASG owns and operates six large catcher-processor vessels that harvest and process on board fish caught in the U.S. waters of

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and the

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. American Seafoods Company is the largest harvester in the U.S.

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Alaska pollock fishery with approximately 45% of the catcher-processor market share. American Seafoods Company is owned by American Seafoods Group Consolidated, LLC. Senior leaders of ASG include Einar Gustafsson, CEO; Kevin McMenimen, CFO; Rasmus Soerensen, Chief Commercial Officer. Inge Andreassen is President of American Seafoods Company, a subsidiary of American Seafoods Group.

History

American Seafoods Company was founded by

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in Seattle in 1988. Following the passage of the American Fisheries Act in 1998, American Seafoods and seven other companies form the Pollock Conservation Cooperative. American Seafoods Company received 16.572% of Directed Pollock Fishery. *1999 – Bernt Bodal, Centre Partners Management, and two other investors bought American Seafoods Company and form American Seafoods Group *2001 – American Seafoods Company opens and expands foreign sales offices **American Seafoods acquires three freezer longliners in purchase of Pacific Longline Company **ASC closes its cryoprotectant additive plant in

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*2002 – American Seafoods Group acquires Southern Pride Catfish Company *2006 – Bernt Bodal leads management buyout of Centre Partners interest. Bernt Bodal becomes controlling equity owner *2008 – American Seafoods Group acquires catcher-processor Highland Light **American Seafoods Group sells Southern Pride Catfish Company *2010 – American Seafoods buys out CDQ group Coastal Villages. As part of transaction, American Seafoods transfers ownership of Pacific Longline Company and catcher processor Northern Hawk to Coastal Villages. Bernt Bodal becomes majority equity holder of American Seafoods *2013 – American Seafoods Group sells American Pride Seafoods to High Liner Foods, Inc. *2017 – American Seafoods Group names Mikel Durham CEO. *2022 - American Seafoods Group names Einar Gustafsson CEO

Products

American Seafoods catches Alaska Pollock in the Eastern

. From this catch, American Seafoods produces whole fillet blocks,

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made from whole fillets and also from flesh recovered during processing, roe, minced pollock blocks, fish oil, white

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, and other "sidestream" products such as stomachs, bone meal, fish skins, and milt. Pacific (whiting) hake are caught and produced into Pin Bone Out (PBO), Deep Skinned (DS), and Pin Bone In (PBI) whole fillet blocks as well as surimi, headed and gutted fish, minced blocks, white fish meal, and fish oil. From its Yellowfin sole catches, American Seafoods produces frozen, whole, round fish and headed and gutted frozen blocks. Pacific Cod are processed into fillet blocks, minced blocks, and headed and gutted products.

American Seafoods fleet

References

External links

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