Daniel Myer Cohen, founder of US-based seafood producer Atlantic Capes Fisheries (ACF), passed away Tuesday.
Cohen, 63, died in New Jersey after a protracted struggle with cancer, according to the nonprofit group Saving Seafood.
He took over a small fishing dock and several fishing boats left to him by his father, Joseph Cohen, in 1976 and built it into Atlantic Capes Fisheries, an industry leading vertically integrated seafood enterprise.
Among other activities in the field of fisheries science, policy and management, he appeared before Congress and served as Chairman of the National Fisheries Institute (NFI) Scientific Monitoring Committee, and on the NFI Clam Committee, both which work to manage the major shellfisheries of the mid-Atlantic region.
