The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a USD 876,943 (EUR 753,117) contract for canned pink salmon as part of a bulk food purchase for a foreign nutrition program.
Under the contract, the Sitka, Alaska, U.S.A.-based company will supply roughly 100 metric tons of canned pink salmon.
The canned salmon products were purchased to be sent to Sri Lanka under the Foreign Agricultural Service’s McGovern-Dole Food for Education program, which “supports education, child development, and food security in low-income, food-defici[ent] countries around the globe.”
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating funding for the program in fiscal year 2026, but the U.S. Senate specified USD 240 million (EUR 206 million) for the McGovern-Dole Food for Education program in its annual Department of Agriculture funding bill.
This contract comes after Silver Bay Seafoods was awarded USD 522,720 (EUR 446,110) to supply 277,200 pounds of frozen Alaska pollock products for domestic food nutrition programs in July.
