Hispanics dominate a traditional workforce

Seafood processing is full of tough jobs, many of which are cold, slimy, repetitious - and even dangerous, for those wielding fillet knives. Some tasks, such as extracting the cooked meat from Dungeness crab legs, are just plain tedious. But they need to be done fast to preserve the product and get it to the market quickly. Highly-specialized local workers get the hardest jobs done swiftly - and somehow make it look easy. At Bornstein Seafoods, many of those workers are Hispanics who have migrated to the North Coast for the high-paying jobs, which can yield $15 to $20 per hour. Plant manager Anne Espedal said about 90 percent of the workforce at Bornstein's is Hispanic. READ FULL STORY
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