Frank O’Hara will discuss the timeline of growth of his family’s company, the hurdles they overcame including wars, the Great Depression, fishing limitations, quotas and fishery collapses. He will talk about processing in the United States and how it was forced to move to other countries, including China. Frank O’Hara, Jr. is the Vice President of the O’Hara Corporation, a four generation family business in the fish industry that operates 5 factory trawlers in Alaska, 11 scallop boats in New Bedford, MA, and 2 herring purse seine vessels in Rockland, ME, where they also have a marina and lobster bait distribution.