Some 26 million tonnes of Alaska pollock are sat in storage over a customs dispute.
Tens of millions of pounds of Alaska pollock lay in limbo for more than seven weeks due to a customs dispute that could threaten the supply of the key ingredient for products like fish sticks and fast food sandwiches.
After it is loaded onto rail cars for a brief trip across 100 feet of track in Canada, it is then put onto trucks which take it into the U.S. through Calais, a small Maine city, about 220 miles northeast of Portland, the Associated Press reported. Frozen fish fingers are shown in this illustrative image. A customs dispute is threatening the supply of Alaska pollock which is often used for fish sticks.The federal government said the companies had used a specially built rail track at the port of Bayside in New Brunswick, near the border, to take advantage of an exemption in the Jones Act, theTwo of the shipping companies, Kloosterboer International Forwarding and Alaska Reefer Management fought the ruling in federal court.
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