Trident Seafoods plans to open a value-added Alaska pollock processing plant in Japan next year with the aim of producing up to 5,000 metric tons of products annually, executives with the company told Undercurrent News.

The plant -- a joint venture with a local firm, Osabe Foods -- will be the first in Japan for specializing in processing single-frozen pollock fillets, Koichi Suzuki, who runs Trident’s Japanese business, and Honomi Sugihira, who is one of this new plant’s project members and manages overseas public relations, told Undercurrent [...]