December 11, 2020 โ Alaskaโs winter groundfish fishery was hit with a second COVID-19 outbreak after nine of 28 people on board a trawler owned by the OโHara Corporation tested positive for coronavirus this week.
According to the City of Unalaska, OโHaraโs F/T Enterprise arrived in Dutch Harbor on Saturday, 5 December, when two crew members were found to have COVID-19. A local clinic tested the rest of the crew and found another seven positive cases.
April 6, 2016 โ NEW BEDFORD, Mass. โ As the US east coast sea scallop fishing season ramps up, two of the worldโs biggest scallops companies see prices at a plateau for now with tight supply in 2016 poised to ease soon after
Speaking to Undercurrent News at the headquarters of Eastern Fisheries, the worldโs largest scallop firm, executive vice-president Joe Furtado said that decreased US scallop supplies are expected to keep prices elevated, at least for a little while.
โThe overall outlook for this year is still down as a whole but the overall outlook for 2017 is a significant rebound from a supply perspective,โ Joe Furtado, executive vice-president of Eastern Fisheries said. โSo I think weโve made some market corrections due to the reality that thereโs just less scallops this year but in anticipation of a rebound in 2017, I think youโll start to see receding pricing in the back half of this year.โ
Eastern has two processing factories in New Bedford, another two in northeastern China, one of which is also used for flatfish processing, and a third recently opened in Staphorst, Netherlands that handles all of the companyโs European scallops. The company is co-owned by two family businesses, OโHara Corporation and Nordic Fisheries, which together own a fleet of 26 scallop vessels.
August 13, 2015 โALASKA โ On July 31, OโHara Corporation launched the first American fishing vessel that will be able to chase fish through polar ice off the coast of Alaska.
Now in its fifth generation, the OโHara family business has shown the ability to adapt as fishing technology, two world wars, and changes in international fisheries laws upended the industry.
โEvery generation had its bad thing to deal with,โ said Frank OโHara Jr. from the OโHara Corporation headquarters on Tillson Avenue in Rockland. Born in 1960, he is actually the fourth Francis J. OโHara and is the company vice president. One of his three sons is the fifth-generation Frank. His father, who was Frank Jr. and is now Frank Sr., 84, is the company president.
All of the fifth generation is in the family business and working in management.
Frank Jr.โs great-grandfather started the fishing family dynasty in 1904 when he launched a Gloucester sailing vessel, the Francis J. OโHara, Jr., which fished for cod, haddock, and halibut off of Georges Bank until it was sunk by a German U-boat in 1918.
The vesselโs namesake got a $5,000 family loan to start his own business: the Atlantic and Pacific Seafood Company in Boston.
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