Greg started out salmon fishing in Alaska at the young age of 15 with a friend of an uncle he met at a family wedding. Like many in the fishing industry, he immediately fell in love with it and spent every summer until graduation working on the boat. Recognizing his passion for fishing, his parents allowed him to take his college money to buy his own 29 foot double ender boat which he took to go trolling and long lining in Alaska and Washington.

Looking for more opportunity, his love for fishing even took him to the Atlantic for a stint in the early 80s, where he fished swordfish, tilefish, shark and other species until returning west in 1983 where he started in the pollock and whiting fisheries. In 1990, Greg began running trawlers and soon thereafter he began training the emerging commercial fleet of the Makah tribe between 1995 – 2000. Through those years, he accumulated enough sea time to attain a 1600 inspected masters license. Soon after, he began running large shorebased trawlers in the pollock fisheries until 2005. Wanting to spend more time with his family, he then began working with Ocean Gold, where he is primarily now responsible for ensuring a smooth process of getting the fish out of the ocean and onto the plates of millions of people around the world.