Clackamas, Oregon, U.S.A.-based Dulcich – the parent company of Pacific Seafood Group – has won another U.S. Department of Agriculture contract for seafood, this time for Pacific rockfish fillets.
Dulcich won a contract to supply 11,700 cases of Pacific rockfish fillets for around USD 2 million (EUR 1.8 million). The contract runs from November 2024 through March 2025.
In early September, the USDA awarded more than USD 17 million (EUR 15 million) in Pacific rockfish and whiting contracts, following requests from politicians and seafood organizations to do so.
At that time, Dulcich was awarded a contract to supply USD 9.3 million (EUR 8.3 million) worth of Pacific whiting. Westport, Washington, U.S.A.-based Ocean Gold Seafoods was awarded a contract to supply both whiting and rockfish in a contract worth nearly USD 5.1 million (EUR 4.6 million), and Bornstein Seafoods was awarded a contract to supply USD 2.9 million (EUR 2.6 million) worth of rockfish.
However, the agency said in the award notice it could not award 9,000 cases of Pacific rockfish “due to price consideration.” It also could not award 17,100 cases of rockfish fillets and 3,600 cases of whiting fillets due to vendor capacity – an issue which Dulcich has apparently partially resolved.
The large U.S. West Coast groundfish purchase was announced in mid-July by U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) and U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), along with U.S. Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-Oregon), U.S. Rep. Val Hoyle (D-Oregon), and U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas (D-Oregon).
“We greatly appreciate the efforts that the USDA has made to support our [seafood] industry in recent years,” the Oregon legislators wrote in mid-July. “These continue to be extremely challenging times, and we cannot overstate the significance of the USDA’s actions to expand procurement programs to include greater quantities of domestically produced seafood.”
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