Keith Decker
Keith is the Chief Executive Officer of Blue Harvest Fisheries, an New Bedford based vertically integrated fishing and processing company. Prior to his time at Blue Harvest, Keith was the Chief Executive Officer of High Liner Foods, a publicly traded Canadian corporation and the largest North American processor and marketer of value-added frozen seafood. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors for American Seafoods, the world’s largest at-sea processor of Wild Alaskan Pollock, Blue Harvest Fisheries, the largest East coast vertically integrated fishing company, West Coast Salmon AS, an industrial scale land-based RAS (recirculating aquaculture system) Atlantic salmon operation and he is a member of the New Bedford Regeneration Project and the New Bedford Economic Development Council. In addition, Keith has served as an Executive Director of the Board of Directors for the International Groundfish Forum and on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for the National Fisheries Institute and has extensive experience as a speaker and presenter at global industry events. In 2020, he was listed in the IntraFish Seafood Power 100, a ranking of the most influential executives in the global seafood industry.