US-based Darik Enterprises is known for shrimp, but the company is now dipping into Red Sea barramundi, president Jim Flynn told IntraFish.
The fish is farmed by National Aquaculture in the deep waters of the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia, he said, and the farm is the first barramundi operation to be four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certified.
Darik hopes to sell 100 to 200 metric tons for 2016.
"Someday [barramudi] will be like a tilapia," Flynn said. "But for now, it's new and different."
