Kaare Ness, Partner in Trident with Chuck Bundrant, Dies at 87
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton January 26, 2016
Kaare Ness, one of Trident Seafoods founding partners, passed away peacefully the morning of Saturday, January 23, at the age of 87.
Born in Norway, and working at sea from an early age, Ness came to New Bedford in 1950's and fished scallops. By 1964 he was partner in a 90 foot scalloper, the Viking Queen. However after a visit to his brother in Seattle a few years later, he brought the Viking Queen to the Gulf of Alaska to fish a new scallop resource there. At that time, he also invested in a shoreside processing company, and was preparing to sell Alaska scallops. But the market would not take them.. and Ness took a position as captain of his brother's new crab vessel.
Once crabbing, he became a mentor and friend to Chuck Bundrant, and a few years later they built the Billikin, Alaska's first king crab catcher processor.
This vessel was the start of Trident Seafoods, America's largest vertically integrated seafood...
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