At this time of year with larger and larger fish being caught a lot of sellers are reporting an abundance of 3kg+ headed and gutted cod stocks. The increased difficulty in processing means there is a lot less demand for this size than the 1-2kg.
In an effort to value-add some Russian producers are now investing in more filleting operations on land and at sea . However, the vast majority is still processed in large processing facilities in China in cities such as Qingdao and Dalian.
Last week our head of seafood procurement Paul Sheary (pictured above) visited one of our customers operations to do an audit on raw material we had provided to them from the North Atlantic. This is an expanding area of our business. Any buyers/sellers interested to deal with us on groundfish please contact Paul at paul.sheary@agrakepak.com