Reduced toothfish catch impacts Sanford first half

Reduced toothfish catch impacts Sanford first half
Brent Melville
Growth in Sanford's aquaculture business was not enough to salvage reduced longline volumes as the country's biggest seafood and fishing company was effectively frozen out of the important Antarctic toothfish grounds. With its deep-water San Aspiring ill-equipped to deal with unusually icy conditions in the Ross Sea, longline catch volumes of high value toothfish dropped 39 percent or 240 greenweight tonnes, contributing to an overall drop in wild catch sales volumes of 8 percent for the first half of the financial year. The reduced catch...

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