He was eating a lot of pollock and saying, вЂWow! This is great cod,вЂ™вЂќ Mr. вЂњAt that point I brought Tobe into the mess hall, and he was pretty hungry. Bundrant tried to sell him on the merits of pollock, but Mr. In 1989 John Tobe, the chief executive of Long John SilverвЂ™s, visited TridentвЂ™s facility at Akutan. Bundrant realized something that restaurants, consumers and other fishing companies didnвЂ™t: Cod stocks in the Atlantic were dwindling, prices were set to skyrocket, and pollock, far from being a вЂњtrash fish,вЂќ was almost indistinguishable from its white, flaky cousin. He built a giant processing facility on Akutan, a remote island in the Aleutians, to get closer to the Bering Sea fisheries, and in the 1980s he switched his fleetвЂ™s focus from crabs to pollock. Once, when he heard that a competitorвЂ™s boat had capsized, he arranged for a helicopter to fly him to the accident site, where he personally wrenched the crew out of the ailing vessel. Bundrant played hardball, both with his competitors and, at times, with his own employees, at one point firing a dozen workers who went on strike for better wages. Tall and thin with a close-cropped beard, he bore more than a passing resemblance to the GortonвЂ™s fisherman - in fact, Trident sold a line of fish sticks with Mr. Bundrant took to Alaska as his adopted home and loved commercial fishing as if he had been born on a boat. Sixty years after his arrival, his empire sprawled across the Pacific Northwest - from the Bering Sea, where his 40 trawlers, crabbers and catcher-processor ships plied the freezing waters in search of fish, to 11 processing plants along the Alaska coast, to a test kitchen in Seattle, where a team of chefs develops recipes for the dozens of seafood brands that Trident sells to restaurants and big-box stores like Costco.Дespite having grown up far from the ocean, Mr.

The others returned home he saved enough to move to Alaska and buy a crab boat, then used the proceeds from that venture to found Trident, with two partners, in 1973.

Bundrant was just 19 when he joined three friends on a summer road trip to Seattle, where they worked in a seafood cannery to make money for school. He was 79.ДЄ spokeswoman for his company, Trident Seafoods, confirmed the death but did not specify the cause. Only available on NEXT LEVEL.Chuck Bundrant, who went to Alaska as a poor college dropout from Tennessee and proceeded to build AmericaвЂ™s largest seafood company, along the way using his political connections and endless competitive energy to bring order to his often anarchic industry, died on Oct. The 6вЂќ scale figure set comes in a collector friendly, premium package. Accessories include alternate head, hands, and accessories. The recognizable and fully-functional operating table features straps, footrest, head block, electrical wiring, and a fabric lab table cover. Just as FrankensteinвЂ™s Monster is a man of many parts, this set comes with exclusive parts that make it a true collector piece. FrankensteinвЂ™s Monster is crafted in spectacular black and white paying homage to this venerable misunderstood Universal Classic Silver Screen icon. Universal Monsters 6вЂі Scale FrankensteinвЂ™s Monster Deluxe Action Figure (Next Level Exclusive)Д¬elebrate the 90th cinematic birthday of FrankensteinвЂ™s Monster with this exclusive, limited edition collectible. Retail is $40.00 USD and is due to ship in late 2021. ItвЂ™s exclusive to Jada ToysвЂ™ Direct to Consumer (DTC) site. All of this will be packed in a collector friendly box. The figure will come with a wide range of articulation, alternate head, hands, chain accessory, a table with strap and a cover. Jada Toys have put up pre-orders for an exclusive 6 inch scale Universal Monsters FrankensteinвЂ™s Monster deluxe action figure.

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