High Liner Foods is adding 70 union jobs and investing $13 million upgrading its Lunenburg, N.S., plant, as it moves production from two idled facilities in Massachusetts to Canada.
The efficiency measures in Lunenburg are part of the 116-year-old company's continuing transformation after the northern cod moratorium 25 years ago triggered a wave of Nova Scotia plant closures and the sell-off of High Liner's fishing fleet.
"We could process more profitability in Lunenburg and ship it to the United States," High Liner CFO Paul Jewer said Tuesday in a keynote address to the Atlantic Provinces Economics Council.
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