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Sealord to sell mussel farms, close plant

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By SeafoodSource staff
11 May, 2012 - Sealord Group is selling its last few South Island mussel farms and closing its Tahunanui factory, bringing down the final curtain on what was once the biggest mussel operation in the South Island.

All 50 workers — 10 operating the farms and 40 at the Beatty St. factory — are being offered new roles within Sealord.

The company announced this morning that it wanted to focus more on its core fishing business.

However, it still has 270 mussel lines in the Hauraki Gulf, a one-third share in a mechanized mussel processing plant in Tauranga and trout, salmon and barramundi aquaculture interests in Australia.

Sealord aquaculture general manager Dorje Strang said the decision, which follows the bombshell loss of 323 jobs at Beatty St in 2008, was not because the surviving South Island operation was unprofitable.

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