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No. 261: Amanda and Ben Wlaysewski
Amanda Wlaysewski started working in the fish industry six days after she graduated from Butte Central in 2003.
What she thought was a summer job, turned into career. Every summer since, she has gone to Bristol Bay, Alaska to work. She founded the Kvichak Fish Co., and for the last 15 years she has run her own small processing facility. She will be heading north again later this month.
Amanda describes her community supported fishery model as “salmon gone girl scout cookies.” Her company takes orders in the spring and delivers them in August across Montana and Idaho. You can also by their…
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