Modernization of Saldanha Bay facilities ups Sea Harvest capacity to 80,000 tons.

March 17th, 2009 by admin 
This story was written back in October 1994 Saldanha Bay, a protected inlet some 150 kilometers north of Cape Town, is home to Sea Harvest Corporation Limited. For more than a quarter of a century its fleet has docked there to unload South African hake (Merluccius capensis) and other species caught in the cold, nutrient-rich waters of the West Coast Benguela current ecosystem. Indeed, the company’s...

Tiger Brands is selling Sea Harvest in Saldanha

November 4th, 2008 by admin 
Tiger Brands will facilitate the largest empowerment so far in the country’s fishing industry, the food company said on Friday. It advised shareholders that it had received a R541-million cash offer from a consortium led by Brimstone, which included key members of Sea Harvest management, to acquire Tiger Brands’ 73.16 percent stake in its partly-owned subsidiary company Sea Harvest. The...