A group of competing fish firms, including Peru-based Copeinca and Norway-based Austevoll, are active in the fight for the best takeover candidates in the Peruvian fisheries industry.
“There are four players extremely active in the battle to buy the best companies. Besides us there is Tasa, Austral and China Fishery Group," Copeinca boss Samuel Dyer Coriat told IntraFish.
(See list of Peru's largest fisheries companies in the overview below.)
Competition heating up
The scramble for the best candidates has become so tough consolidation of the Peruvian fisheries industry will happen quickly, Coriat said.
“We
