Sea Harvest Group is a major South African seafood and agriprocessing company. Founded in 1964 in Saldanha Bay on the West Coast of South Africa, it has grown into a vertically integrated business covering fishing, aquaculture, dairy, and consumer-food brands.
Key facts:
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The group catches wild seafood (e.g., Cape hake, horse mackerel) off South Africa’s coasts and processes it into frozen, chilled and value-added products.
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It also has aquaculture operations (for example abalone farms) and a dairy/agriprocessing division producing products like cheese and milk-powder.
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Sea Harvest has a strong sustainability and transformation focus: it holds a Level 1 B-BBEE status and places importance on community impact and environmental responsibility.
Operations
The company’s operations are wide-ranging:
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Fishing fleet and on-board processing trawlers operating from ports like Saldanha Bay and Mossel Bay, catching deep water species at between 15 and 120 nautical miles offshore.
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Processing facilities where fish is filleted, portioned, battered or crumbed for domestic retail and export markets.
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Aquaculture business that farms species such as abalone, and an agriprocessing business producing dairy products.
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International footprint: while headquartered in South Africa, operations include overseas production, exports and growth in adjacent markets.
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