specialising in longline fishing gear
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Pacific Ocean Producers, a premier company specialising in longline fishing gear
HONOLULU based Pacific Ocean Producers specialises in the design and installation of com mercial fishing gear. Operating out of a 40,000 square foot warehouse in Honolulu, Pacific Ocean Producers supports a cata logue sales business and a South Pacific dealer network. As Lindgren-Pitman’s largest distributor, Pacific Ocean Producers maintains a two million dollar inventory in Honolulu and can respond to virtually any customer’s need from its stock.
Representing Lindgren-Pitman longline gear since 1985, Pacific Ocean Producers has installed over 350 systems in the Pacific.
The majority of these systems are cur rently operating in Hawaii (125 systems), Tahiti (75 systems), Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, and
California. Jim Cook and Sean Martin founders and partners of Pacific Ocean Producers - both come from extensive fish ing backgrounds, and insist that Pacific Ocean Producers maintain a “hands-on” approach to business. “In the end, the most important aspect of our work is making sure the customer has reasonable expectations and achieves them. Anyone can sell equip ment and we have many competitors - but none of them have the experience we do and that is what makes the difference,” says Martin.
In addition to its supply business, Pacific Ocean Producers operates 11 vessels in the Hawaii longline fishery. Many captains and crew members from other countries have received operations training on a company vessel and it is not unusual to have two or
more foreign customers aboard Pacific Ocean Producers vessels at any time. “Our job is done when the customer catches fish and we will do whatever is needed to make it happen,” says Cook.
Pacific Ocean Producers Vice-President for foreign sales, Tony Costa reports the company has current projects in Australia, France, Fiji, Mexico and Eritrea (on the Red Sea). “In 1999,1 expect my staff will fly over 200,000 miles doing customer support work.
By February we will be in Fiji, Tonga, Western and American Samoa. In March, we will be in Boston for the Seafood Show and in Eritrea for gear installation,” says Costa.
In addition to its Honolulu operations, Pacific Ocean Producers supports Sin Tung Hing Marine Center, a major dealer in Tahiti and warehouses goods in American Samoa and Pompano Beach, Florida.
For more information, contact Pacific Ocean Producers at: Ph (808) 537-2905 Fax; (808) 536-3225 Website: pop-hawaii.com ■