SeaFood Business

MAR 2013

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People in the News National Fisheries Institute Icelandic Group Chris Lischewski, CEO of Bumble Bee Foods in San Diego, is the new chairman for the National Fisheries Institute. In addition to his job at Bumble Bee, Lichewski is also the founder and chairman of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation, and he serves as chairman of the Science and Regulatory A���airs Council for the Grocery Manufacturers Association. Darden Restaurants Darden Restaurants in Orlando, Fla., owner of Red Lobster, promoted Will Setliff to senior VP and CMO. Setli��� is responsible for strengthening the company���s overall marketing, elevating marketing innovation to drive long-term growth and directing marketing talent management. He has more than 20 years of experience, joining Darden last year as the specialty restaurant group���s executive VP-marketing. Previously, Setli��� was senior VP-marketing for Target. Darden also appointed Dave George president of Olive Garden and Valerie Insignares president of LongHorn. Icelandic Group in Reykjav��k, Iceland, appointed Frank Tierenteyn managing director of the Belgian ���shprocessing company Gadus, which it acquired last year. Tierenteyn formerly was director and general manager at La Bretagne Logistics and at Pieters Group, a ���sh farming, processing and sales company that is now a part of Marine Harvest. Following the acquisition of Pieters Group by Fjord Seafood in 2000, he was appointed executive VP of the value-added division of Fjord Seafood. Between 2004 and 2011, he served as CEO of Viangro Groupe SA, a meat-processing company in Belgium. Phillips Foods Phillips Foods in Baltimore announced new hires tasked with spearheading its retail growth strategies. Kerry Frye, West Coast regional retail sales manager, has more than 20 years of sales experience for leading seafood companies in North America with a broad background on a variety of seafood species and valueadded product forms. John Baxter, East Coast regional retail sales manager, is responsible for new account placement and increasing Phillips��� retail sales. He brings almost 20 years of food sales experience with more than 10 years in seafood sales. Price Chopper Paul Beletsky is now director of meat merchandising for Price Chopper Supermarkets, owned by Golub Corp. in Schenectady, N.Y. He is responsible for overseeing the meat category management team and leading special projects in the department for the 130-store chain. He has more than 15 years of supermarket retail experience, most recently with Wakefern/Shop-Rite in Keasbey, N.J. Additionally, Sam Wagar was promoted to VPtechnical services. Wagar, who was formerly director of enterprise architecture, is responsible for assessing, maintaining and recommending technology products and Remembering Lee Alverson W hen I started out as a rookie correspondent for this magazine���s sister publication, National Fisherman, I had no clue how fortunate I was to be taken under Lee Alverson���s wing. I���m sure he preferred it that way. Doc was one of the most in���uential ���shery scientists and marine policy leaders of the last half-century. But when he dropped in to chat and visit the magazine archives, I noticed that he took a sly delight in snatching up an of���ce cookie or two unpoliced by people who revered him and worried over his health. As a young writer striving to understand ���sheries, I learned that Doc would unfailingly steer me straight. He had hundreds of prot��g��s, so maybe it came naturally for Doc to coach me in the fundamentals of ���shery management and science. He would pull books off the wall and hand them to me. ���This is Beverton and Holt. These guys de���ned the stock-recruit curve. Read this and come see me in two weeks.��� Doc might squirm if he could read this. The only time he ever scolded me was for writing what he called ������owery words��� about him. Sorry Doc. When you died, the forest mourned its tallest tree. ��� Brad Warren, director, Global Ocean Health Program, a joint initiative of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership and the National Fisheries Conservation Center 86 SeaFood Business March 2013 services to support the delivery of enterprise-wide technical services. Tri Marine Tri Marine appointed Matt Owens to be its environmental policy and social responsibility director. He works in the company���s corporate headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. In this newly created position, Owens, who was formerly with the nonpro���t FishWise, works on sustainability and public policy issues to enhance the long-term reliability and integrity of Tri Marine���s supply-chain solutions for its customers. In memoriam Dayton Lee Alverson, known as a pioneering ���sheries scientist for his work in the North Paci���c, died on Jan. 19 at age 88. Dr. Alverson was born in San Diego in 1924 and joined the U.S. Navy in 1942, where he served until 1946. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington���s School of Fisheries in 1966. His more than sixdecade career as a marine biologist included working for state, federal and international agencies, and he was a co-founder of Natural Resources Consultants. He was also an a���liate professor with the University of Washington School of Marine A���airs and School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences and published more than 150 scienti���c papers and several books. Among his many accomplishments was working to pass the federal Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act in 1976. Visit us online at www.seafoodbusiness.com

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