The History of Comeau's Sea Foods Limited
The Comeau’s Sea Foods Limited group
of companies has been a global leader in the seafood products
industry for over fifty years.
Founded by Bernardin J. Comeau and
Clarence Comeau in 1946, the company originated
as an innovative substitute for the short Nova Scotia lobster
season. As fishermen themselves, the founders were aware that
fishing opportunities existed all year round – lobster in winter,
herring in summer. Harvesting herring in summer also meant that
quality bait could be produced to lure lobster later in the year.
That’s how it began – an idea to maximize year-round
fishing resources that would leverage harvesting advantage and
create new work for local people. A scallop fishery was added
to the plan, and Comeau’s Sea Foods was born.
Over the last fifty years, Comeau’s Sea Foods
has grown and developed, but its philosophy remains the same –
managing ocean resources and technology in an efficient and sustainable
manner.
Today, a variety of business activities serve loyal
retail, foodservice, and industrial customers in the areas of
harvesting, processing, bottling, and distributing of quality
fish and food products. Fresh goods include scallops, herring,
fishmeal and oil, and live lobster (November through May only).
The Comeau’s Sea Foods group also
processes a full line of quality frozen herring fillets, scallops,
and herring roe. Our value-added product lines include smoked
salmon, smoked mackerel, saltfish, breaded scallops, spreads,
seafood chowders and ready-to-eat items.
These and other Comeau’s Sea Foods
products are available for export across North America and beyond.
The company has built a logistics network across North America,
Europe, and Asia since its first shipment to the West Indies in
1946. Satisfied customers now receive Comeau’s Sea Foods products
directly or through distribution partners around the world.
Comeau’s Sea Foods’ longevity and
continued success can be attributed to:
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Ongoing interest
in customer needs, tastes and market preferences |
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Clean and
unpolluted purity of our local marine resources |
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Consistent
development and infrastructure policy: Ensuring that the
company retains its own licenses, vessels, operates its
own testing facilities and processing plants, enables Comeau’s
Sea Foods to provide consistent quality and supply to customers |
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Implementation
of stringent quality practices and modern processing facilities
that consistently meet or exceed Canadian Food Inspection
Agency regulations and customers needs. |
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Loyal and
dedicated employees that have served throughout Comeau’s
Sea Foods’ history. |
Over the past fifty years, Comeau’s Sea Foods
has grown in accordance with the company’s emerging production
needs:
These complementary businesses add value to the Comeau’s
Sea Foods operations by allowing the company to ensure
consistent quality, production and delivery to every customer.
Today all of these businesses have been successfully
integrated into a diversified enterprise under the direction of
president Marcel Comeau.
The company’s processing plants and other operations
remain along the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia, off some of
the richest traditional fishing grounds in the world.
Comeau’s Sea Foods retains membership
in industry-affiliated and professional organizations such as
the Fisheries Council
of Canada, Seafood Producers Association of Nova
Scotia (SPANS), Federation
of Independent Businesses, Canadian
Manufacturers and Exporters Association, and Canadian
Chamber of Commerce.
Please contact us
with any questions or queries. |
