Petra Weigl, general manager of sales in Europe for tilapia producer Regal Springs, has been in the seafood industry 30 years, including time with major European seafood processors such as Iglo and Pickenpack.
But her long career in seafood was by no means planned, she explained to delegates at IntraFish's Women in Seafood Leadership Summit in Bergen, Norway in March.
After several attempts at different studies were rebuffed by East Germany's education system, Weigl finally got accepted for a role she wasn't exactly excited about: working with food technology in Bulgaria.
