Consolidation is sweeping the global seafood industry. Withgrowing demand and limited seafood resources, companies are placing a priorityon acquiring access to raw material and emerging and established markets, andthey are seeking capital and mergers and acquisitions to help them achieve these goals.

Fueling this consolidation is an unprecedented wave ofinterest from investors and financiers, who have identified seafood as anemerging growth sector.

IntraFish Media’s new SeafoodExecutive magazine is publishing the world’s first-ever directory ofcompanies engaged in investing in the seafood industry  – including banks, private equity investors,and firms specializing in mergers/acquisitions.

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