BELLINGHAM, WA / ACCESS Newswire / September 9, 2026 / Trans-Ocean Products, Inc., producer of the nation's top-selling retail brand of surimi seafood, today announced several key staff promotions that recognize the contributions each have made to the company's continued focus on quality assurance, regulatory compliance, and product innovation.

Scott Rogers has been promoted to Customer Service & Supply Manager. In this position, he is responsible for leading Trans-Ocean Products' Customer Service, Logistics, Purchasing, and Materials Management functions. In addition, he will build and manage an integrated supply chain that will ultimately create new cost efficiencies from procurement to customer delivery while maintaining the company's high standards for service quality. He has been with the company for 11 years.

As Trans-Ocean's Accounting Manager, Tamara Richards will oversee the company's accounting department. In this role, she is responsible for a wide array of accounting and risk management duties, including tax compliance and reporting, working with the company's insurance brokers, overseeing month-end close, and monitoring all company financial reporting matters. In her 18 years at the company, she has held a variety of financial management positions, including Accounting Supervisor and Accounts Receivable Lead.

Laben Risser is the company's newly appointed Plant Manager. In this role, he will oversee daily operations across the Bellingham facility. This includes managing production output, equipment reliability, food safety compliance, team leadership, and solutions that ensure continuous process improvements to deliver consistent surimi seafood quality and operational excellence. In his 22-year career with Trans-Ocean, his previous roles include Production Manager and Area Supervisor.

"At Trans-Ocean Products, we have cultivated a team of employees who strive daily to find new solutions to deliver an exceptional customer experience and the highest quality surimi seafood products on the market today," said Chris Cameron, President at Trans-Ocean Products. "We are excited to recognize these recent employee promotions and look forward to their continued contributions to our company culture and product lines."

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About Trans-Ocean Products
Founded in 1985, Trans-Ocean Products, Inc. is one of the country's largest manufacturers of surimi seafood, sold under the Crab Classic, Simply Surimi, Crab Supreme, Crab Deluxe, and Seafood Snackers brand names, as well as private-label offerings. The company's plant in Bellingham, Washington, is the only certified 100% gluten-free facility in the domestic surimi seafood industry. Trans-Ocean Products is a vertically integrated United States subsidiary of Umios, which owns three surimi block plants in Alaska and holds partial ownership of a floating processor ship operating in the North Pacific. For more information, please contact Trans-Ocean Products, Inc. at 350 West Orchard Drive, Bellingham, WA 98225, call 888-215-4815, or visit trans-ocean.com.

SOURCE: Trans-Ocean Products, Inc.