{"id":1916,"date":"2019-05-07T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2019\/05\/07\/wafic-ceo-stands-down\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:34:36","slug":"wafic-ceo-stands-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/wafic-ceo-stands-down\/","title":{"rendered":"WAFIC CEO stands down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chair of WAFIC, Dr Ron Edwards, thanked John Harrison for his contribution, leadership and expertise and wishes him success for his future endeavours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJohn Harrison has served the WA commercial fishing industry and broader community tirelessly and with great purpose over the last five and a half years of his tenure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommercial fishing always faces many challenges ranging from access rights to environmental changes, and John has addressed those professionally during that time. He also secured a funding package with the State Government to provide for WAFIC\u2019s ongoing work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the WAFIC Board and staff, we wish John well as he chooses to pursue other interests in his career,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Given the current political climate in the Western Australian seafood and fishing industry the Board has appointed Alex Ogg as the interim CEO, effective immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was announced today that the Western Australian Fishing Industry Council (WAFIC) Chief Executive Officer (CEO), John Harrison, will be moving on, effective immediately, to pursue new opportunities after more than five years at not-for-profit WAFIC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}