Our Company

Alaska Protein Recovery (APR), was created in 2003, in Alaska, to manufacture hydrolyzed fish protein and fish oil from Alaska seafood industry by-products.  APR’s corporate headquarters are located in Juneau, Alaska and administrative offices are located in Seattle, Washington.  Production occurs on board a one-of –a-kind and state-of-the- art 260 foot x 60 foot (80 meter x 18 meter) processing barge, the Alaskan Venturer (A/V).

The A/V operates seasonally in a variety of Alaskan ports where large-scale salmon processing occurs.   Alaska salmon are naturally abundant and salmon populations have swelled to such a point that salmon returns continue to break all time records.  Good resource management and natural habitat protection by the State of Alaska has led to the Alaska salmon success story.   Indeed, Alaska’s wild salmon fishery is the first major fishery in the world to obtain the Marine Stewardship Councils’ (MSC) coveted “Certificate of Sustainability”. 

Fishery by-products are delivered to the A/V during the summer salmon season which occurs between June and September .  Fresh salmon by-products are delivered to the A/V by tender vessels.  The tender vessels are loaded at processing plants as by-products are generated.  The waste is held refrigerated on board as if intended for food for human consumption.  The A/V can unload and process between 150  – 200 Metric tons of incoming raw materials each day.

We receive, handle, store, and process all raw materials under the guidelines set forth in our  Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point plan (HACCP) which includes strict sanitation operating procedures and principals.   Although are not required to do so, we voluntarily operate under the U.S. Food & Drug Administrations’ HACCP regulations.  We understand the importance of sanitation and critical hazard controls for the role they play not only in the production of foods for human consumption, but also in the production of safe and quality animal and plant feeds.

APR has develope unique bio-technology for the production of concentrated hydrolyzed fish proteins and dried protein meals using enzymatic hydrolysis.  We continue to research and refine our process in a way that will enable us to produce and market hydrolyzed proteins and fish oils for human nutritional supplementation.  Indeed, our all-natural salmon oil is so clean and low in environmental toxins and heavy metals that it may soon be used for human nutritional supplementation without the need of additional refining.