Cooke Appoints Johan Brouwer as Managing Director of Morubel and Executive Frozen Sales Leader for Europe

September 14, 2023 Cooke Aquaculture

Cooke Inc. is pleased to announce that Johan Brouwer has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Morubel and Executive Frozen Sales Leader for Cooke Europe.

Wanchese Fish Company Adds New Scallop Vessel for Argentina

August 8, 2023 Cooke

Wanchese Argentina, a subsidiary of Wanchese Fish Company, has christened its new Argentine scallop vessel, the Erin Bruce II, at a ceremony in Vigo, Spain. It is the biggest new build of a factory freezer trawler in the Argentine fishery and the first to be constructed specifically for the scallop fishery. Wanchese Fish Company is a division of Cooke Seafood USA.

Tassal Acquires Australia’s Only Ocean Grown Barramundi Farm

August 4, 2023 Cooke

Tassal Group Limited (“Tassal”) has completed its acquisition of MPA Fish Farms Pty Ltd and MPA Marketing Pty Ltd (“MPA”), which operate Australia’s only ocean-based barramundi farm at Cone Bay, Western Australia. This secures the future of more than 50 local jobs in the Kimberley region.

Cooke Aquaculture Providing Support for Nova Scotia Wildfire

June 2, 2023 Cooke Aquaculture

Cooke Aquaculture Inc. has dispatched a convoy of equipment and supplies from New Brunswick to support the first responders working to contain the devastating wildfires in the Shelburne and Tantallon areas of Nova Scotia.

New Brunswick’s First Land-Based Atlantic Salmon Post-Smolt Aquaculture Facility Achieves Environmental Approval

April 5, 2023 Cooke

Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd. (KCS), of the Cooke family of companies, has received a Certification of Determination to Proceed from the New Brunswick Department of Environment and Local Government for the construction of its proposed $72 million land-based Atlantic salmon post-smolt aquaculture facility in Bayside, N.B. This approval is an important step achieved upon successful completion of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).