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sampled our products at Ryan's Steakhouses, Long John Silver's, 

 Skipper's or through Jenny Craig Products to name only a few. 



In a very real sense, our company has its roots in your 

 Committee. In an early attempt to put Americans on an equal 

 competitive footing with the world's state-of-the-art fishing 

 fleets your Committee drafted, and Congress enacted, the "United 

 States Fishing Fleet Improvement Act". This legislation provided 

 partial funding to encourage the construction by U.S. citizens of 

 vessels "of advance design . . . equipped with newly developed 

 gear" and able "to operate in expanded area[s]." 1 Only two 

 vessels ~ the SEAFREEZE ATLANTIC and the SEAFREEZE PACIFIC ~ 

 were ever built under this program. Economically unsuccessful, 

 the vessels (and Congress) were roundly criticized at the time, 

 but in the end your foresight was correct. 



It was the founders of our company who took the economic 

 risk in 1980 to buy the SEAFREEZE ATLANTIC, to refit the vessel 

 for North Pacific pollock and cod production and to introduce the 

 first U.S. factory trawler to the North Pacific. The effort 

 proved unusually successful and dozens of vessel owners have 

 followed suit. We later acquired her sister ship, the SEAFREEZE 

 PACIFIC — now the ROYAL SEA — and after the addition of 

 extensive new processing and propulsion equipment it is the flag 

 ship of Royal's fleet. 



Pub. L. No. 88-498. 



