Oceanic Related Businesses

International Oceanic Enterprises, later renamed as United I.O.E. and then True World Group, was the corporate umbrella under which several of the movement's ocean related businesses were held, including International Seafoods of Alaska.

This seafood processing business, known colloquially as I.S.A., was the core focus of the significant financial and human resources Rev. Moon attracted to Kodiak, Alaska especially during the 1980's, and became a well-known supplier in the seafood sector with two large processing plants, providing fresh and frozen fish and other aquatic species to America and to many countries around the world, while supporting non-profit activities, church properties and missions.

Its loss is sorely fealt by the community.

For a long time, I.S.A. was the only company that could or would process just about any species and source many products not available elsewhere in Alaska.

At the height of its busiest activity, besides the two processing plants in Kodiak, I.S.A. also owned the Russian Heritage Inn, two bunkhouses, a processing plant and bunkhouse by the beach at Egigik on Bristol Bay, additional houses in Kodiak, including the Bancroft house, (Reverend Moon's earliest abode while in Kodiak,) and funded the construction of Angel Garden, as a day care and training center, and the add-on to North Garden, (Rev. Moon's later home in Kodiak). Occasional other trial projects were run in mainland Alaska, the last of which was a summer salmon harvesting operation on the Yukon river.

This small hotel, previously owned by International Seafoods of Alaska, Inc. and operated by unificationists for decades, hosted many visitors invited by Reverend Moon and his followers from the 1980s through to its final sale in 2021. 

Originally a real electrical power plant, housing multiple diesel generators, operated by Kodiak Electric Association, the building was remodeled into a semi-rustic high-end sushi restaurant with a beautiful interior and outdoor dining overlooking the scenic northern channel leading in to Kodiak and Dog Island harbors, nestled below and to the north of the bridge connecting the two islands.

Diners can sit and enjoy unique and excuisitely delicious culinary creations made on site by top-notch chefs, while watching bald eagles, sea lions, sea otters and internationally acclaimed trawlers pass leisurely by.

The restaurant's ownership has changed over the years, and it has been renamed as Kodiak Hana Restaurant, but it has been run very well by its manager, master sushi chef and latest owner, "Tom-san".

This restaurant has earned high acclaim as top restaurant in Kodiak on multiple occasions.

This now closed enterprise was a commercial fishing business that operated a number of trawlers, including the Green Hope, Ocean Hope 1, Ocean Hope 2 and Ocean Hope 3, that harvested huge volumes of fish in the Bering Sea and North Pacific fisheries, supplying both processing plants of International Seafoods of Alaska with fresh fish.

Although the business Ocean Peace has its home offices in Washington state, their factory trawlers, including their flagship "Ocean Peace", frequent Alaskan waters to harvest from the abundant arctic fishery, helping to build an economic foundation to sustain and expand the spiritual, educational and values-based outreach efforts of the movement in America and abroad, in the furtherance of our Founder's purposes of bringing about world peace and eliminating the ongoing world hunger crisis.

This business, still alive and thriving after decades of operations, owned and operated by Chris and Jai Nan Fiala, early members of the movement, was inspired by Reverend Moon's avid love for ocean sports fishing. Chris has become the most knowledgeable, well respected and best king salmon charter boat operator in the area and has hosted many VIPs, public figures, professional sports fishermen and other famous people from around the world.

Jai Nan has been the sturdy business manager, taking care of guests and logistics to ensure all are warmly welcomed and supported during their time in and around Kodiak.

Starting with the "U Rascal", later adding the "Moonshadow" and finally, Rev. Moon's private boat, renamed as "Harvest Moon", (the latter two being not-so-subtle references to our Founder, Rev. Moon,) the business continues to expand, making the pristine coastal waters more and more accessible to nature lovers, whale watchers, video crews and sports fishing  every year. Chris and Jai Nan and their business have become a well-known pillar of the community and help give our movement an ever improving standing in Kodiak.

Chris' musical talent and down-home demeanor inspire reminiscences of younger days for many, while also building a rapport with people of all ages.

A family business, owned and operated by Lukas and Tasnah Bercy, a second generation of the movement's ocean business owners, Kodiak Marine Charters offers fishing charters aboard the charterboat "Moonlight".

A now closed historic business headquartered in Kodiak, with factory trawler operations in the Southern Ocean, ports of call at Montevideo in Uruguay, Punta Arenas in Chile, Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands and MacMurdough Station in Antarctica, and fishing areas around South Georgia Islands, South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands,  this business was established with the purpose of meeting the protein needs of the world's undernourished and famine-stricken populations. Top Ocean, Inc. was originally conceived of as the American subsidiary in a 5-nation conglomerate, each operating a single krill harvesting factory trawler vessel in the Southern Ocean, at the farthest reach of the world's logistics chain.

Due to extenuating circumstances, (Germany's ban on krill harvesting, lack of maritime related resources among Japanese and Korean members and the lack of licensed and experienced large trawler captains in Uruguay,) Top Ocean, Inc. purchased two of the former soviet era ships while Top Ocean, Inc.'s parent corporation Victoria Terrace S.A., a Panamanian holding company, purchased 3 additional vessels of the same series. These ships were manufactured at a shipyard in Stralsund, East Germany near the end of the cold war and had been abandoned in ports all around the world by the collapse of the USSR and its 200+ vessel global fishing fleet. Many of those were impounded by host port countries due to inability to pay their port costs and were subsequently placed on auction, where our members were able to purchase them at pennies on the dollar relative to their original construction cost. After years of renovation and factory, deck and bridge equipment upgrades, F/V Top Ocean began it's harvesting operations in 2001.

Krill harvested and processed near the South Orkney, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands were rendered into delicious frozen deshelled krill meat, packed initially in catering trays and later as reprocessable blocks and  trials were prepared to produce a retail size two-serving tray.

F/V Top Ocean was the first and only Antarctic Krill harvesting ship refurbished and upgraded to US food production factory vessel standards with an approved HACCP plan. This vessel operated from 2001 through early 2005, landing millions of pounds of market-ready products as well as millions of pounds of high grade krill meal as animal feed products developed primarily for salmon farming.

From 2005 onward, business group economics left this business unable to continue its development and by 2015 or thereabouts, Top Ocean, Inc. was dissolved.

Around 2004, a Norwegian krill harvesting factory vessel arrived in port at Montevideo, Uruguay, outfitted with the latest technology throughout the ship and equipped to produce pelletized human grade krill products as well as high grade krill oil. The captain was a close friend of our Norwegian member, Captain Jan Bakken who had earlier testified to him about the Reverend Dr. Moon's vision of how to feed mankind into the 21st century and beyond. This shows that with the right heart and right efforts, the spirit will move someone with the right resources, capability and willpower to fulfill that vision.