The Seattle Seven is a group of seven seafood companies, operating in the city of

Seattle Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...

, known for negotiating a secret agreement with

Exxon Corporation Exxon Mobil Corporation ( ) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston. Founded as the largest direct successor of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, the modern company was form ...

in 1991, relating to punitive damages resulting from the

Exxon Valdez oil spill The ''Exxon Valdez'' oil spill was a major environmental disaster that occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. The spill occurred when ''Exxon Valdez'', an oil supertanker owned by Exxon Shipping Company, bound for Long Be ...

. The companies, Aleutian Dragon Fisheries (ADF), Icicle Seafoods, North Coast Seafood Processors, North Pacific Processors, Ocean Beauty Seafoods,

Trident Seafoods Trident Seafoods is the largest seafood company in the United States, harvesting primarily wild-caught seafood in Alaska. Trident manages a network of catcher and catcher processor vessels and processing plants across twelve coastal locations ...

and Wards Cove Packing Co. were paid $63.75 million.

References

{{Reflist 1991 in Alaska Companies based in Seattle Exxon Valdez oil spill