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Kolaches, Knish Among Unique-for-Buffalo Eats at Sunday Market
The Buffalo News (August 2020)
“The operation has given its small business participants such a boost that the Chandler Street Market might grow from an emergency measure to a fixture, stretching into the fall and possibly beyond.”
Read more: http://bit.ly/2XB21H4
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Pacific Cloud Brings Quality, Sustainable Seafood to Buffalo
Visit Buffalo Niagara (November 2020)
“[A Values-based company] refers, in my mind, to not being solely profit-driven. Our company [Pacific Cloud Seafoods] needs to succeed in the current economic system. Still, we believe that we can do it in a way that offers harvesters a fair wage, increases our employees’ well-being and pays attention to the delicate balance of nature.”
Read more: http://bit.ly/35v4OWz
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How Ryan Horwath of Sitka Salmon Shares is Bringing Alaska to the Mainland
#WeGotGoals Podcast (November 2019)
“Horwath knows a ton about the fishing industry and all the sustainability issues that are top-of-mind at the moment; he also serves as the Kodiak Fleet Manager and Western New York Coordinator, and yes, he fishes, too.”
Listen here: http://bit.ly/3slR9LE
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Connecting People to Salmon in Alaska, the East Coast and the Midwest During COVID-19
Juneau Empire (May 2020)
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Kodiak Jig Fishermen Explore Other Markets During Poor Cod Season
Alaska Public (April 2018)
“Horwath says Sitka Salmon Shares is buying more rockfish out of Kodiak this year after a preliminary purchase in 2017. That’s good news for fishermen targeting rockfish. Horwath says Sitka Salmon Shares offers vessels around a dollar a pound for the fish, which is at least twice the profit Kodiak jig fishermen would usually make on rockfish, if not more.”
Read more: http://bit.ly/3qqpo2L
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Graying of Alaska’s Fishing Fleet Puts Key Industry in Peril
Oceans Deeply (March 2018)
“With the average age of commercial fishers now over 50, the state is trying to figure out ways to break down barriers that are increasingly keeping young people from working the sea. Horwath believes that a sustainable sea-to-doorstep approach might be right for young fishers, and it could help ensure that a locally controlled industry survives to serve an important function in society. ‘I really think in the long term, people are going to want to eat fish,’ he said.”
Read more: https://bit.ly/38BQpdi
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