Chicken of the Sea Frozen Foods Retools Executive Sales Staff for Push into Retail Sector Chicken of the Sea Frozen Foods (COSFF) retooled its executive sales, marketing and communication team to help meet its goal of expanding its business into new categories in the retail and foodservice sectors. Craig Freels will lead COSFF's push into the value added finish category as its Director of Business Development and Finfish Category Manager. Freels will be joined by Emily Kucehcler and Chad Reed who will take over as COSFF's Business Development and Western Area Sales Mangers respectively. Meanwhile, Ann Ochiltree was named as COSFF's Communications manager, a new position at the company. "As we expand our product offerings and customer count, it is important that we make these strategic additions to our organization in order to continue to provide top-notch service to our customers. Each of these individuals bring experience and a fresh perspective to our team," said Brenden Beck, Vice President, Sales and Marketing at COSFF. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program upgraded Bristol Bay red king crab to a "Best Choice" recommendation. The update means all of the major crab fisheries in the Eastern Bering Sea, including two species of Snow crab and Blue King crab from St. Matthews Island meet Seafood Watch's "Best Choice" standard. The recommendations maintained the "Avoid" status for all crab fisheries in the Russian portion of the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, and the Northern Sea of Japan. "With these updated recommendations the Seafood Watch program is just confirming what we have known for years" said Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers Science & Policy Analyst Ruth Christiansen.  In other news commercial squid fishermen in Southern California say the squid have pretty disappeared from Pacific waters over the last several months. Researchers with NOAA say unusually warm West Coast waters from the "blob" and then from El Nino have caused squid to move farther north. "In terms of that total warmth of the water, it's pretty much the warmest we've ever measured and over an extremely large volume of water,” said NOAA Oceanographer Andrew Leising. Finally, Carlos Rafael was released from jail after posting a $1 million bond using his house and business, Carlos Seafood, as collateral. Conditions of Rafael's release include no travel outside of Massachusetts, except, with permission, to a shipyard in Providence, R.I., that services boats for Rafael's fishing business. He will continue to operate his business during court proceedings.