Silver Bay CEO brings message of resilience, renewal to Chamber banquet

Cora Campbell, president and CEO of Silver Bay Seafoods, returned to her hometown of Petersburg as guest speaker Saturday evening at the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet. Over the course of about 20 minutes, she drew a through-line from the town's 1897 founding to the hard lessons of the 2023 salmon crisis - and outlined an optimistic slate of value-added products she said will soon be flowing through the Petersburg plant.

"As pink salmon goes, so goes the economy," Campbell told the assembled business owners and community leaders. "We absolutely have to focus on that challenge an...