Macduff Shellfish nets £6.28m profits

MACDUFF, the UK’s largest shellfish processor made a pre-tax profit of £6.28 million last year, according to the company’s latest financial results. This is in spite of various challenges facing the fishing industry in general, not least the uncertainty around Brexit. The Peterhead based company, bought by Canada’s Clearwater Seafoods for £100 million three years…

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Clearwater sales up, but profits down

CLEARWATER, one of the Canada\’s leading seafood companies and owners of Macduff Shellfish in Scotland, has reported an increase in sales, but lower gross profits during 2017. The Nova Scotia based company, which is embroiled in a dispute with the Canadian government over the loss of 25 per cent of its lucrative clam fishery to Atlantic coast…

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Clearwater to fight clam fishery ruling

CLEARWATER Seafoods, one of North America\’s main fish businesses and owners of Macduff Shellfish in Scotland, is to take legal action after losing its monopoly to Canada\’s rich Arctic surf clam fishery. Canada\’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans has awarded a company in Nova Scotia, along with indigenous groups in the Atlantic provinces and Quebec, 25 per cent of the…

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