When Riverence Holdings acquired Clear Springs Foods in February, the six-year-old company became the largest-land-based producer of trout in the Americas, with a staff of 450. The company had some rather unlikely beginnings, with a cattle rancher and a Hollywood executive at its helm.
In 2014, Hollywood writer and producer David Kelley – the man behind Chicago Hope, The Practice and Ally McBeal, among many other television shows and films – partnered with his friend Rob Young to purchase Aquafeed, a trout egg farm in Rochester, Wash., in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
Kelley is an avid fly fisherman who wanted to preserve the resources he’d enjoyed for many years and saw aquaculture as a way forward…
Recent Comments