M&J Seafood targets U.S.

The Brakes-owned U.K. foodservice company aims to increase its supply of salmon fillets to 60 metric tons per week to fill U.S. demand created by the collapse of Chile's salmon farming industry.

M&J Seafood began sending around 20 metric tons of fillets to the United States in Septembe, before it closed its Fleetwood factory in April, where the majority of its salmon processing was housed.

But with operations now restarted at its Grimsby site, the company wants to up the ante and more than double the quantity it sells into the U.S.