Seafood

In changing our focus from commercial fishing to wilderness charters, we faced a steep learning curve in marketing.  The NorthwestTAAC matched funding helped us to hire professionals to design effective promotional materials, and in the process taught us advertising and marketing strategies. As a result we are sold out and profitable sooner than expected.

It would have been difficult for our small company to complete work on these labels without the help of the NorthwestTAAC program. The program has been a real boost to us, and though our relatively small in comparison to others, I believe the recovery of the Alaska salmon industry depends on the collaborative efforts of

I believe that Trade Adjustment Assistance funds capture the best of America and foster what has been our cultural genius; constant regeneration through up swelling of ideas from people of all backgrounds. I appreciated that after Trade Adjustment established that we are people to be trusted, they gave us the funds along with the spending guidelines,

As a result of this project, we expect to be able to brand our company and its products on a scale we could not achieve without this help. Our industry is experiencing massive consolidation as the large companies grow larger, branding will become more and more critical to the family-run, quality-driven companies such as ours. Thank you