Headquartered in Astoria, Oregon, the West Coast Seafood Processors Association (WCSPA) was founded in 1993 by a group of seafood processors who realized that no other organization existed exclusively to deal with the problems and challenges facing shore-based seafood processors in Washington, Oregon, and California.  Since then, WCSPA has grown to represent most major, and many minor, shore-based processors of groundfish, crab, shrimp, and salmon.