Also named Champions for 2010 were Helene York of Bon Appetit Management Company Foundation, The Co-Operative retail chain in the United Kingdom, the West African Journalists Network for Responsible Fisheries, and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Inflight Services.
Johnson, who has worked for 40 years in the seafood industry, has spent the better part of the last 10 years trying to help bridge the gap between the industry and the NGO community.
"...Almost everybody in the seafood industry, they looked at the NGOs, the conservation community, as the enemy, and I thought that was unfortunate," Johnson said about the state of the relationship between the two sides eight or nine years ago.
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