The Metlakatla coast line in 2007. (Photo courtesy Mark Brennan, Flickr)
The Metlakatla coastline in 2007. (Photo courtesy Mark Brennan, Flickr)

An emerging seafood company is preparing to purchase its first loads of pink and chum salmon from a handful of seine boats in Metlakatla this summer while also building a high-tech floating freezer barge at a Washington shipyard that the company plans to operate in Southeast Alaska next year.

Circle Seafoods, which was founded by Pat Glaab, Charlie Campbell and Eren Shultz, is renting…