Over the past few months Alaska seafood producer Peter Pan Seafood Company has been on a hiring spree, attracting employees from competitors and the broader seafood industry --from executives at salmon giant Mowi to Icicle Seafoods, Orca Bay and others.

Shannon Grant, human resources director at the company, is one of those new hires. She took on the new role in March after working in for nine years as the director of human resources for Peter Pan competitor Silver Bay Seafoods.