Port Gives Notice To Fish Processors

Two fish processors at Pier 66 have been given notice to find a new home, a Port of Seattle staff member said yesterday.

The Pacific Salmon Co. and the Dressel Collins Fish Co. will probably be asked to move sometime next year, said Keith Christian, manager of marine real estate for the port.

Proposed plans call for the port to build an office, museum and conference-center complex at Pier 66.

Critics of the port's plans say the processors are the sort of traditional maritime industry that should be kept at Pier 66. Together they employ fewer than 80 people at the peak of the fishing season.

Christian referred questions about the project to Dan Dingfield, the port's director of development, who was unavailable for comment yesterday.

Commissioner Jack Block, who favors keeping the processors at Pier 66 or moving them to Pier 69, said he was unaware of the port's announcement. Block said he could not comment until after he had spoken with staff members.

A spokesman for Pacific Salmon declined to comment on the port's announcement until negotiations with the port are concluded. But Ed Bonney, owner of Dressel Collins, said he was upset about the move but was powerless to resist the port.

Bonney said the port has offered to discuss helping the tenants find a new home but has been vague about everything except the deadline to move, April 1, 1991. Dressel Collins has been processing fish on the

waterfront since 1923, starting at Pier 67 and later moving to Pier 66, he said.