Chuck Bundrant

Charles Bundrant is an American billionaire businessman, the co-founder, chairman and majority owner of Trident Seafoods.

• Chuck Bundrant is the chairman and cofounder of Trident Seafoods, the largest vertically integrated seafood company in North America.
• Today the $2.6 billion (est. sales) firm harvests, processes and markets frozen and fresh seafood and has operations in China, Japan and Germany.
• The company sells Alaskan wild-caught salmon, cod and pollock at retailers like Costco and Safeway.
• Bundrant is credited with popularizing pollock, which was considered a trash fish. He sells it to chains like Long John Silver’s and McDonald’s.
• In the 1970s he partnered with two crab fishermen to create the Bilikin, the first boat to feature crab cookers and freezing equipment on board.