TASA CEO Carlos Pinillos has resigned from his post at the Peruvian fishing company, a source at the company told IntraFish.

Pinillos had been with the company for 15 years and saw TASA through the 2013 launch of subsidiary TASA Omega SA, which focuses on high omega-3-content fish oil for direct human consumption.

Pinillos will continue as CEO for the next few months "in support of the process of selecting the new CEO and completing succession planning," he said in a statement.

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