American Seafoods, one of the world's largest fishing companies, declined to comment on what impact Wednesday's indictment of Bumble Bee Seafoods CEO Chris Lischewski could have on his role at American.

Lischewski is a board member of the US pollock giant as a result of investment he made in American in 2015, which was part of a de-leveraging recapitalization of American together with Pacific Seafood Group, former Icicle Seafoods CEO Amy Humphreys and private equity firm Bregal Partners.