he assets of the now-defunct Adak Seafood’s 250,000 square foot processing facility are being auctioned off on 18 June by Hilco Industrial.Hilco will conduct the sale of more than 500 lots of seafood processing equipment. The equipment offered features nine fish sorting lines with conveyors, sorters and 35,000 gallon holding tanks. Nineteen pollock lines also include several heading machines. Multiple crab lines are also available, which include filler stations, cookers, coolers, dip glaze tanks, chillers and an ice flake machine. A cod liver oil processing li ne, other heading machines, freezers, mixers and generators will also be available.
Interested parties can bid in person or register and participate in the auction in real time using HilCast, a live online and phone bidding system.
Adak opened originally as Adak Fisheries in 1986 and declared bankruptcy in 2009. Icicle Seafoods announced the decision to close the operation in April of this year, citing concerns about the short- and long-term health of the region’s Pacific cod resource and increased regulatory uncertainty.
