Pacific Seafood Group

And Multi-X, which is Chile's second largest producer, is in talks to buy Productos Del Mar Ventis Queros from Germany's Schor-Guber Group.

Moving along, U.S. supplier Pacific Seafood Group suffered a major loss this week following a fire at its freezer plant in Newport, Oregon, on Sunday.

Fears of an ammonia leak prompted local officials to issue a level three go now evacuation for neighboring areas.

Ashton Meyer, Pacific's vice president of resource sales and processing, told UCN via email that the company is devastated by the fire and is working with emergency response officials to determine the full extent of the damage, but said they expect it to be a major loss.

I don't know if anybody saw the news, but the Quaker Oats facility, In Iowa, it's the world's largest Quaker Oats facility burned today and is offline.

And in the same day, Pacific Seafood in Newport, Oregon, also one of the largest seafood processors in America, burned and all their freezers are out of order.

So we lost two of the largest... uh food producers in america today as well so it's food and energy are continually knocked offline and i saw some new laws coming out of india being over here in asia uh they were now trying to pass laws where as a reporter you're not allowed to write about somebody unless that person gives the okay that you're allowed to write about them so investigative journalism as you know would be dead in india since you put the headline up there whoa and i heard you in the previous hour

All right, that's wild.

Grant McHill, FM News 101.

An 11,000 square foot freezer building at Pacific Seafood's Newport operation remains destroyed after a fire Sunday, which has some in the commercial fishing industry concerned about Oregon's upcoming Dungeness crab season.

It was used to store bait for local shops.

Newport Mayor Jan Kaplan says they truly depend on Pacific Seafood.

Pacific Seafood is a critical part of our economy today.

Nearby offloading and processing facilities managed to escape damage in the fire.

Oregon Dungeness Crab Fishing is set to start December 1st.

And, you know, I beg the question, is the green energy a stopgap measure for a few people to have electricity while this whole thing, holds in on itself and then new energies released later you know it seems that this whole fossil fuel things being purposely taken offline one slow turn every single day or week because you know bring it back home here to america i don't know if anybody saw the news but the quaker oats facility In Iowa, it's the world's largest Quaker Oats facility burned today and is offline.

And in the same day, Pacific Seafood in Newport, Oregon, also one of the largest seafood processors in America, burned and all their freezers are out of order.

So we lost two of the largest... uh food producers in america today as well so it's food and energy are continually knocked offline and i saw some new laws coming out of india being over here in asia uh they were now trying to pass laws where as a reporter you're not allowed to write about somebody unless that person gives the okay that you're allowed to write about them so investigative journalism as you know would be dead in india since you put the headline up there whoa and i heard you in the previous hour

All right, that's wild.

KXL's Annette Newell reports.

Pacific Seafood's already saying it's a big loss.

We still have lots to investigate.

Newport's Mayor, Jan Kaplan, is thankful for the emergency responders and that no lives were lost.

Pacific Seafood is a critical part of our economy.

But knows the impact on his city will be tough and is already asking lawmakers for help.

I'll be in touch with Senators Wyden and Merkley and our state representative.