Wards Cove Packing Company was a cannery located in the community of Ward Cove, on the northern outskirts of the larger city of

Ketchikan Ketchikan ( ; tli, Kichx̱áan) is a city in and the borough seat of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough of Alaska. It is the state's southeasternmost major settlement. Downtown Ketchikan is a National Historic District. With a population at the 202 ...

in the

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Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

. The original Wards Cove Cannery was established in 1928, on Ward Cove and operated several Alaskan

salmon Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the ...

canneries Canning is a method of food preservation in which food is processed and sealed in an airtight container (jars like Mason jars, and steel and tin cans). Canning provides a shelf life that typically ranges from one to five years, although un ...

, employing about 200 people during the peak season. The company closed in 2004, and was sold to non-fishing interests. The impetus for the

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was partially based upon the 1989 legal case, ''

Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio ''Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio'', 490 U.S. 642 (1989), was a court case concerning employment discrimination, argued before the United States Supreme Court on January 18, 1989, and decided on June 5, 1989. Facts A group of nonwhite cannery ...

''.

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