Bengaluru, India-headquartered Captain Fresh has filed paperwork with Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) to take control of seafood processing company Morex.
Captain Fresh’s filing said it plans to acquire the company under its holding company Infifresh Foodtech, which is registered in Oslo, Norway. According to the filing, Morex produces a wide range of seafood products, with the largest sales volumes in herring, hoki, salmon, hake, saithe, halibut, pollock, mackerel, trout, and pike-perch.
A Captain Fresh spokesperson told SeafoodSource that the company is unable to comment on the filing.
Gdynia, Poland-headquartered Morex was founded in 1995 by Roman Bigus and Mariusz Czapiewski and purchases fish from several markets including Chile, Argentina, Norway, China, Vietnam, and New Zealand. The company produces a range of different products, including commercial products sold in the same form that it was purchased by Morex, as well as “finished products” that include raw fish subjected to processing of some sort such as filleting, freezing, portioning, and packaging.
The acquisition adds to Captain Fresh’s growing portfolio of seafood companies.
Captain Fresh first got involved in the Polish seafood market when it acquired Gdynia-based Koral, a processor and distributor of value-added salmon products. Captain Fresh has also acquired multiple other major seafood companies, including Spanish tuna giant Frime in March 2026.
The company has also seen its subsidiaries begin to acquire other companies. Its subsidiary Central Seaway Company (CenSea), which it acquired in February 2024, acquired Ocean Garden’s brand portfolio in February 2025.
Captain Fresh CEO and Founder Utham Gowda told SeafoodSource during this year's Seafood Expo Global that the company’s acquisition strategy is oriented around key companies in the space to create a distribution engine for a range of seafood products and to tap into the relationships those companies have built.
“This is a relationship-heavy industry because there is so much of a lack of trust, which manifests itself in terms of relationship densities,” he said. “So, we in the last three years have essentially gone about buying these relationships, buying their reputations. These are reputations which have been around for the last 10 [to] 60 years in some cases.”
The ultimate goal for Gowda and Captain Fresh is to become a USD 4 billion to USD 5 billion (EUR 3.5 billion to EUR 4.4 billion) company, he said.
“Given all the constraints, that’s a decent point for us to start,” Gowda said.
