AlaskaCatch, LLC

Gene "Whitey" Wadsworth
We have been Alaska commercial fishermen since my
grandfather Gene Wadsworth
started fishing in 1945. He fished out of Seldovia on the f/v Sea
Scout. Ray Wadsworth was then born in Seldovia in and grew up
fishing
with his dad. Our family has been enjoying salmon fresh
from
those pristine glacial waters for a long time, and we want to share the
experience.

F/V Liahona
My father, Ray Wadsworth, has been fishing in Alaska
with boats he has
built himself since about 1970. The first seiner he built and
fished
was the 'F/V Liahona' followed most recently by the 'F/V Order of
Magnitude'
(which was the world's fastest herring seiner, featured on the cover of
'National Fisherman' December 1996).

F/V Order of Magnitude, Liahona, Natalia
and the St.Joe;
high and dry in Kamishak Bay, Alaska.
We formed the Wild Alaskan Seafood House LLC, to provide
the highest
quality boneless salmon available in the world, using a new patented
processing
machine technology from TBRS
Technology
Ltd.
Originally our company was called the Wild Alaskan
Seafood House LLC,
was born in January of 1999, to provide consistent quality, supply and
price to our consumers. We have reorganized ourselves as
AlaskaCatch,
LLC in 2002. We believe that people should be able to buy a fresh
boneless wild salmon at an affordable price. So we built the
'Wild
Salmon' floating processor, installed the new pinbone/filleting machine
on it, and went to Alaska last summer to do just that. We took
the
salmon directly from the fishermen right on the fishing grounds, then
processed
and froze them on the spot, it doesn't get any better than that!

Castle Cape, near Chignik, Alaska
We have been involved in the commercial fishing industry our entire
lives.
We believe in this product, and in maintaining the Alaskan fisherman's
way of life, for us it isn't just a way to make a living, it is
tradition,
it is family.

The pinbone machine invented by TBRS Technology Ltd. is quite famous. Using
this machine we are able to completely fillet and debone salmon when
they
are just-killed and even pre-rigor. This allows us to bring you
extremelty
fresh frozen at sea boneless fillets as nobody else can. This
system
was developed with funding help from the Alaska Science and Technology
Foundation. The TBRS machine uses a patented system incorporating
a precise array of blades which precision cuts out all the bones while
filleting H&G salmon.
Management up until 2005
CEO Chuck Redman: Chuck Redman is the
former President
of Calavo Foods, having taken over when the avocado company was loosing
money on $5 million in revenues and grew the business profitably to
over
$40 million in sales and 200 employees. Chuck’s successful experience
with
the California Avocado Growers Cooperative was instrumental in forming
the Chignik Seafood Producers Alliance in Alaska. Chuck has held
numerous
senior management positions in the food industry. His experience
as VP, National Sales and Marketing Manager for such companies as Swift
and Co., Griffith Laboratories, DOB Food Products Co and others has
provided
him with hands on experience to successfully grow sales of Alaska Wild
Salmon products.
COO Ray Wadsworth: Ray is the President and
founder of Kodiak
Marine Construction, an innovative boat manufacturer that builds
commercial
fishing boats. He built the F/V Order of Magnitude, which is well
known within the fishing industry as the fastest and most
technologically
advanced commercial fishing boat of all time. Ray is also the
primary
inventor, founder and President of TBRS Technology, the company that
developed
the TBRS de-boning technology with matching grant aid from ASTF.
Ray is the second generation of a fishing family and is intimately
familiar
with the industry and many key people involved with fishing, processing
and the Alaskan government. Ray has been owner, plant manager and
captain
of many commercial fishing vessels and is also a pilot, having spent
many
years as a fish spotter in Alaska. Ray was also the founder of the
United
Salmon Association, a marketing cooperative made up of Alaskan
fishermen
and a recipient of the Highlighers Award from national Fisherman
magazine
in 1999.
Legal Counsel Bruce Johnston: Bruce is a
trial lawyer and
partner in AlaskaCatch. He has provided legal counsel and business
expertise
to this Company, as well as TBRS Technologies Inc. and Wild Alaskan
Seafood
House, LLC. (as co-founder) He aided in the formation of the
Chignik
Seafood Producers Alliance by drafting the Bylaws and Articles free of
charge as well as drafting the same for the United Seiners Association
(USA). Bruce grew up with involvement in the Alaska
seafood-processing
industry, and has represented clients who are significant in the
industry
and has relationships with many key players in fishing and the
government.
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