November 21, 2007

Australia's Clean Seas Tuna bags export award

South Australian aquaculture company, Clean Seas Tuna, grabbed the 2007 NAB Export Award in the 10th Premier Food Awards.

South Australian Premier, Mike Rann, presented the award at a gala dinner on Friday.

It recognized the Port Lincoln-based company's excellence in exporting premium quality fresh seafood products.

The export award came only a month after Clean Seas reached agreement with one of the UK's largest supermarket chains, Sainsbury's, to stock its farmed yellowtail kingfish in 330 supermarkets across Britain.

Approximately 60 percent of Clean Seas' produce is sold overseas.

Hagen Stehr, Clean Seas chairman, said the company's marketing efforts are focused offshore, particularly on new markets in Europe.

Clean Seas' kingfish is already available in Italy, Holland, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Eastern Europe as well as South East Asia and the United States.

In 2007-08, the group forecasts more than 4,000 tonnes of aquaculture-bred yellowtail kingfish and mulloway, as well as 700 tonnes of southern bluefin tuna.