PORTSMOUTH – Keith A. Decker arrived in 2008 as president and chief operating offer of High Liner Foods just as the international seafood company was expanding through acquisition and beginning a modernization effort at the Portsmouth plant that's been a landmark along Interstate 95 since the 1960s.
Once known as National Sea Products, the organization was transformed in the 1990s from a fishing company that sold the fish it caught to a marketing company that finds and prepares the fish its customers want.
Consumers would recognize the company's products on their retail grocery store shelves under the Fisher Boy or Sea Cuisine name, while club stores like Sam's Club and Costco carry the High Liner label. High Liner also serves the restaurant industry, including the McDonald's Filet-O-Fish.
In the past five years, the Nova Scotia-based company, traded on the Canadian stock exchange, has acquired companies in Massachusetts and Virginia while investing heavily in New Hampshire operations.
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