Scotland's Scrabster Seafood Expanding into Crab Processing
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Press and Journal] By Keith Findlay - March 25, 2015 -
A new crab processing factory is to be built at one of the premier shellfish landing ports in the UK.
Scrabster Seafoods, based at Scrabster harbour in Caithness, mostly exports white fish to mainland Europe and the Far East.
But the company has identified an opportunity to diversify and take advantage of the 2,000 tonnes of crab landed by fishermen at the harbour every year.
It is investing around £330,000 in new plant and equipment to begin crab processing, supported by £119,832 from economic development agency Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
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