While news outlets have reported that Ocean Beauty Seafoods is in talks to merge with Canadian seafood company Cooke Aquaculture Inc., this will not impact the operation of Ocean Beauty’s Excursion Inlet plant during the 2020 season, said Mike Forbush, senior Alaska operations manager for Ocean Beauty.
Forbush said he could not comment on acquisition rumors but said that Ocean Beauty has no plans to close the Excursion Inlet plant. The company “has been putting…