The withdrawal of a portion of the Alaska salmon fishery from the MSC program dominated the news in January, but stories on Morpol, a departing executive from Icelandic USA and falling cod and salmon prices also were well read.

In fact, the most-read story of the month was Geir-Bjorn Nielsen’s article on Jerzey Malek, founder of Morpol.

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1. ‘Brilliant founder with too much self-confidence'

Geir-Bjorn Nielsen

IntraFish canvassed insight from sources close to Morpol's CEO to get a picture of the man whose company has lost its third chairman in less than a year.

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