Cooke Aquaculture looks to Nova Scotia for its new plant

New Brunswick (NB) based Cooke Aquaculture  intends to construct a fish processing facility in Nova Scotia´s (NS) Shelburne County as part of its CAD$150 million (US$ 149.2 million) expansion scheme in the province. The plant will have a capacity to process 40 million lb of salmon annually and should be running by 2013, according to company spokesperson Chuck Brown.

However, the company must first strengthen its production in NS. Cooke now runs nine salmon-focused aquaculture farms there and has filed applications for four more in the Shelburne and Digby areas.

Brown said the new farms in Digby could be operational by the spring and that the new Shelburne farms will probably open in the subsequent spring. This added salmon production would help Cooke justify its construction of the processing facility. Read more...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.