{"id":1985,"date":"2007-01-25T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2007\/01\/25\/grieg-purchases-target-marines-salmon-farming-sites-and-fish-plant\/"},"modified":"2007-01-25T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T11:27:00","slug":"grieg-purchases-target-marines-salmon-farming-sites-and-fish-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/grieg-purchases-target-marines-salmon-farming-sites-and-fish-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Grieg purchases Target Marine\u2019s salmon farming sites and fish plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Target Marine is the largest producer of coho salmon in North America.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition brings the number of Grieg\u2019s full time employees to 129 from 50, and the company\u2019s salmon farm licenses to 17 from nine.<\/p>\n<p>The purchase of the Egmont Fish Plant will also enable the company to increase its processing capacity. Grieg\u2019s current operations support 45 full time employees at Walcan Seafoods Ltd., the single largest employer on Quadra Island, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Target Marine Group of Companies will keep its hatchery and its sturgeon operations.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Gibson, Managing Director of Grieg Seafood BC said, \u201cthe acquisition will enable us to grow and process more fish, to meet strong market demand for our product here in Canada and in the growing US market, and to strengthen our investment in British Columbia\u2019s coastal communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salmon farming company Grieg Seafood BC Ltd. has purchased the Target Marine Group of Companies\u2019 salmon farming sites on Canada\u2019s Sunshine Coast and its processing facility in Egmont.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}