Trident Seafoods Founder Chuck Bundrant passed away at age 79 on Sunday, 17 October at his home in Edmonds, Washington, U.S.A.
Bundrant, born in the U.S. state of Indiana, dropped out of college in 1961, when he was 19, and moved to Washington state to work in the seafood industry. His first job was processing crab in Alaska, and he eventually worked his way up the industry’s food chain, founding Trident in 1972 and building it into a
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APICDA sued Trident in August 2020 for allegedly refusing to follow through on an agreement to buy a 25 percent stake in a joint venture to procure a seafood processing facility that processes salmon and whitefish in False Pass, Alaska.
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