Company Overview

Company Overview

• Founded in 1991 to specialize in Northern Shrimp.

• Operates as a processor, importer, exporter and trader of

seafood products with following imphasis:

• Northern Shimp
• Northern Scallops
• Snow Crab
• H + G Cod, Atlantic and Pacific (Russian origin)
• H + G Haddock (Russian and Norwegian origin)
• Pollock, wetsalted and frozen (Norwegian origin)

• Currently employs 12 people in Halifax, 4 in St. John's,

Newfoundland and roughly 70 crewmembers at sea.

Harvesting Through the affiliated company Acadienne Gale Fisheries the company owns and operates an offshore factory freezer shrimp trawler, the F/V Acadienne Gale II. General management of this vessel is performed from the Newfoundland office of Davis Strait Management.

This vessel operates year-round off the eastern coast of Newfoundland, Labrador and Baffin Island with a yearly quota of roughly 5, 000 metric tonnes of Northern Shrimp. This quota is secured through two separate long term license agreements with a New Brunswick firm and an Inuit concern.

The Shrimp is frozen and packed at sea in three forms:

l. Cooked principally for European and Asian markets;

• Raw - for the Japanese market and;
• Raw - for domestic cooking and peeling.

Importing Davis Strait Fisheries has become one of the largest importers of frozen and wetsalted raw material for sales to Canadian fish plants for further processing. Fish is sourced from Norway, Denmark, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Russia. Customers are located in all four Maritime provinces as well as in Quebec and New England. The principal products are frozen Headed and Gutted Atlantic Cod, Pacific Cod, Haddock, Pollock as well as Wetsalted Cod and Pollock.

1996 saw the company continue to develop new markets with the introduction of Russian Scallops and Greenlandic Snow Crab to their North American customers.

Exporting Davis Strait works very closely with many Canadian seafood processors to assist with sales and marketing in international markets.

In the raw material category the company exports shell-on shrimp to Asian producers for further processing. In terms of value- added and secondary processed items Davis Strait is active with the following:

*Cooked, Shell on Northern Shrimp *Cooked and Peeled Shrimp *Salted Codfish *Prepared dishes *Processed lobster products.

Fisher King Seafoods Ltd. is a affiliated company established in 1996 with Mr. Tor Conklin to sell processed seafood products primarily in the United States with secondary focus on Europe and Asia.

Overall group sales were slightly over CDN $48 million for 1998

The Davis Strait Group was the recipient of a 1998 Canada Export Award, recognizing its strong achievements in the field.

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Additional Details

Legal Name: Davis Strait Fisheries Ltd.

Number of Employees: 75

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Products

• H + G Frozen Cod Of Haddock

  Imported H + G Cod, Atlantic and Pacific ( Russian Origin) H + G Haddock ( Russion and Norwegian Origin

• North Atlantic Scallops
• Northern Shrimp
• Scallops

  Imported I. Q. F. Russian scallops

• Wetsalted Pollock And Cod

  Imported Pollock and Cod; welsalted and frozen ( Norwegian origin)

NAICS Categories

• 114113 Salt Water Fishing
• 311710 Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging
• 413140 Fish and Seafood Product Wholesaler-Distributors

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