Changes at the top for OBI Seafoods

Longtime Alaska seafood industry leader Mark Palmer is retiring as OBI Seafoods chief executive.

Here's a press release detailing this and other management moves at the company.

Palmer is on the board of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

Collier, Palmer to stay on ASMI board

Gov. Sean Parnell today reappointed Barry Collier and Mark Palmer to the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute board of directors.

Collier is president and chief executive officer of Peter Pan Seafoods. Palmer is president and CEO of Ocean Beauty Seafoods.

Both men have served on the ASMI board since 2004, holding seats reserved for large seafood processors.

ASMI is a Juneau-based state agency with an office in Seattle and marketing representatives in several countries. It is funded largely through a tax processors pay on the value of seafood products.

Board members serve three-year terms. See the full board here.