Darden’s Bill Herzig to pick up GAA Lifetime Achievement Award

Darden Aquafarms’ Bill Herzig will receive the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s GOAL 2015 conference in Vancouver.

A champion of seafood sustainability, Herzig’s career in seafood spans more than four decades.

After graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Herzig took a job with Rich-SeaPak, working his way up to senior vice president of operations, procurement, quality assurance and commodity sales over his 23-year career at the St. Simons seafood company.

Herzig joined Florida-based Darden Restaurants, the world’s largest casual dining company, as director of seafood purchasing in 1997, graduating to VP of seafood purchasing two years later.

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