Ron Rogness, the vice president of sustainability and corporate relations at American Seafoods, is leaving the seafood industry in order to move back to his home state of Wisconsin.
Rogness declined to identify the company he will be working for in Wisconsin, as “it’s a public company and they haven’t announced it.”
Rogness told SeafoodSource in an email his move away from Seattle and the seafood industry “was really a life decision.”
“I had made up my mind I was going to be living in Wisconsin by the end of the year,” he said. “I was exploring ways to do that and stay in seafood, but an opportunity outside seafood came up that would allow me to live at my cabin and work close by.”
Rogness started at Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based American Seafoods in 2011, but his career in the seafood industry began nearly 40 years ago, when he moved from Wisconsin to Washington state to become a commercial fisherman in Washington and Alaska.
Later on in his career, Rogness served as a staff economist for the North Pacific Fishery Management Council in the 1980s, and held purchasing roles at Long John Silvers and the Unified Foodservice Purchasing Co-op. He also held two different roles at the National Fisheries Institute – first as its West Coast government relations representative, and between 2009 and 2011, as its chief sustainability officer.
“I will certainly miss the industry and my great friends in it,” Rogness said.
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