{"id":34182,"date":"2025-04-08T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?page_id=34182"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:42:13","slug":"brett-heidtke-bristol-seafood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/brett-heidtke-bristol-seafood\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Heidtke, Bristol Seafood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2025\/04\/Brett-Heidtke.jpg\" alt=\"Brett Heidtke\" class=\"wp-image-34185\" style=\"width:248px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2025\/04\/Brett-Heidtke.jpg 200w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2025\/04\/Brett-Heidtke-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2025\/04\/Brett-Heidtke-105x105.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2025\/04\/Brett-Heidtke-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Brett&#8217;s presentation will explore Haddock processing from incoming raw material through the finished fillets ready for retail sale.\u00a0He will identify the steps in the process that produce waste, or what is called by-product, discuss equipment capabilities and production methods used in handling at each step.\u00a0He will discuss the use of Bristol Seafood&#8217;s by-products in retail stores, as well as with partners in the pet food and cosmetics industries.\u00a0From skins and bones to off-cut fish trimmings, 100% of the raw material is utilized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Brett Heidtke<\/strong> has over 25 years of experience in the seafood industry.\u00a0 Brett began his career in 1999 as Plant Manager of the Elgin, Illinois facility for Sonoma Seafoods focusing on Value Added Seafood.\u00a0 He joined Slade Gorton in 2010 and relocated to Massachusetts with his family in 2012 to serve as Plant Manager for their Boston facility.\u00a0 In 2015, he joined Stavis Seafoods as Director of Operations.\u00a0 Most recently, in 2019, he joined Bristol Seafood as Vice President of Operations and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett&#8217;s presentation will explore Haddock processing from incoming raw material through the finished fillets ready for retail sale.\u00a0He will identify the steps in the process that produce waste, or what is called by-product, discuss equipment capabilities and production methods used in handling at each step.\u00a0He will discuss the use of Bristol Seafood&#8217;s by-products in retail [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34182","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34187,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34182\/revisions\/34187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}