New manager named for Wrangell Trident plant

WRANGELL – Trident Seafoods will be welcoming a new manager for its Wrangell plant during the summer's production run.

Nick Ohmer was named as the company's selection in a media brief last week. A lifelong resident of Southeast Alaska, in an interview Ohmer said he would be bringing to the job his local knowledge and personal connections with Wrangell's fishermen.

Ohmer grew up in Petersburg, and even before fishing alongside those from the neighboring community he grew up with many of them through basketball and school activities. His family has an even longer history in the area, which now e...