Egegik is a small village located in the north-east portion of Bristol Bay. This canning and freezing facility was purchased in the spring of 2005. Located on the south bank of the Egegik River, it is ideally situated for prompt processing of the abundance of Sockeye Salmon traveling up river to the spawning beds in Lake Becharof. The cannery itself is quite old having been established in the 1890’s and several buildings dating back to the 1920’s and 1930’s are still in use, each of them having the massive wooden beam construction common to that period. Although the official 2000 census estimated the Egegik village population at 116, this number can increase by as much as 15 times during the salmon season. Along with the multitudes of fisher folk intent on turning fish into dollars, Icicle brings in a crew of about 200 people for processing salmon from mid-June through the first week of August. As the Bristol Bay season begins to wind down that crew size will fall as we shift seasoned employees to our other processing facilities throughout the state. Once the crew is gone, our interest quickly turns to cleaning, lubricating, and winterizing the plant and living accommodation so we'll have a smooth start-up the following Spring.