For the scallop industry to grow it first has to consolidate, Eastern Fisheries Vice President Joseph Furtado said, and that doesn’t necessarily mean combining business.
“We need to build connectivity, from harvest to consumer,” Furtado told IntraFish.
In the smaller, yet still commercially viable fisheries, such as Peru and Japan, there’s are links missing in the value chain, by building those bonds, whether through information, connecting the boats to buyers to distributors to consumers and or making financial commitments, Eastern Fisheries is going to be there, Furtado said.
“It’s
