The core business of Seattle-based Icicle, formerly employee-owned then sold two years ago to private equity firm Paine and Partners, is the primary processing of seafood, including salmon, pollock, crab, halibut, cod, sablefish, and herring.
It catches fish in most major fisheries throughout Alaska with both onshore and floating processing facilities. It owns Smoki Foods; the largest United States-owned and operated salmon farming company, which produces salmon fillets and value-added salmon products in the Pacific Northwest.
Icicle is part of a joint venture in Chile producing farm-raised coho and trout with Salmones Aysen.
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