Coming out of their shells: Kona Bay Marine Resources grows seed stock for the world's shrimp and clams.(Industry Focus: Agriculture)

From: Hawaii Business | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Miyasaki, Gail | Copyright information

Newly hired as president a month earlier to turn around the financially struggling Kona Bay Marine Resources, Brian Goldstein stood in the pouring rain in Kona in the wee hours of the morning in December 2002, helping the staff race against time to load live shrimp broodstock for shipment. Soaked to the skin and wearing a plastic garbage bag as makeshift raingear, the former software executive from Silicon Valley asked himself, "What am I doing here?"

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