Seafood industry veteran Howard Johnson is retiring from "active staff work" at the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP), where he has served as director of Global Programs.

Johnson will remain with the organization, joining the SFP board of directors.

Johnson has been with SFP since its founding as a non-profit organization in 2006. Prior to joining SFP, Johnson was president of H.M. Johnson and Associates, a leading seafood industry research and analysis firm he founded in 1984.  

Johnson’s seafood career spans some more than 40 years, including involvement in a wide variety of activities including seafood procurement in Southeast Asia and aquaculture development in the United States, Mexico, Chile, and Brazil.