Haines Packing Co.

Haines, Alaska

Wild Alaska Sockeye Salmon, Wild Alaska Dungeness Crab, Wild Alaska Keta Salmon, Wild Alaska King Salmon

Established in 1917, Haines Packing Company is the longest continually running seafood processor in Southeast Alaska and has been family run for generations. Sitka Seafood Market chose Haines Packing Company as a trusted partner to provide our members with salmon from the Chilkat and Chilkoot Rivers. These watersheds produce the largest runs of sockeye in Southeast Alaska and also support coho and keta runs, emptying into the majestic Lynn Canal, the deepest fjord in North America. At over 2,000 feet deep, Lynn Canal hosts all five species of Pacific salmon as well as halibut and Dungeness crab.

Together with his wife, Genny, Harry Rietze has been running Haines Packing since 2013, when he bought the company from his father and uncle. “Sitka Seafood Market has been a great partner for Haines Packing and our fishermen,” Rietze says. “We both value a quality product for our customers and we complement each other logistically with a plant on each end of Southeast Alaska to accommodate multiple fisheries.”

By sourcing from small-boat fishermen in the Chilkat and Chilkoot river system and treating workers with dignity, Haines Packing operates according to the core values of Sitka Seafood Market.