High Quality Cod Only Way to Get Value from Newfoundland Fishery, Says Icewater Seafoods
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC] by Jane Adey November 16, 2016
Icewater Seafoods is the only large producer of cod loins in Newfoundland. This Christmas, its premium loin product will be smoked in the UK and used for a Christmas promotion. In an interview with CBC, Icewater President Alberto Wareham explains how quality is the only way Newfoundland can get value from cod as it comes back.
A Placentia Bay fish processor says a top notch product is needed if cod from this province is going to be sold in markets around the world.
Cod has been king at Icewater Seafoods since the late 70s. The Arnold's Cove plant, which employs 210 people, even processed frozen cod caught by other countries to get through the tough moratorium years.
But President and CEO Alberto Wareham has his sights set on the future. Wareham says if his plant and any other processor or harvester in the province wants to compete in the global cod market, there has to be one single focus.
"It's got to be quality and that starts in the boat."
The bulk of Icewater's product goes to the United Kingdom and France to customers like Marks and Spencer and Tesco ..
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