Beaver Street Fisheries launched a new project under its Nassau Bahamas subsidiary Tropic Seafood, Ltd. with the aim of introducing land-based aquaculture into the Bahamas -- starting with Japanese olive flounder.
"We started last fall and we're looking for companies to partner with in this program," Mark Frisch, executive vice president and co-owner, told IntraFish.
Flounder can be shipped fresh or frozen, whole or filleted, to North American markets.
Tropic Seafood has been contemplating the idea of getting into aquaculture; over the past four years it has been researching to determine the ideal candidate to raise in the Bahamas.
"We've
