Oceana Group
The state of the world’s oceans is one of those worries that niggles away in the back of the mind, but never quite reaches the prominence it would if it were somewhere more visible. What happens at sea tends to stay at sea, until it is captured in a marine conservation documentary that gets everybody proclaiming that something must be done — until the next time they fancy some tuna sashimi, at which point the collapse of the fisheries slides into the background. There’s little doubt that global greed for our aquatic chums is causing a significant issue, which will only be solved by regulation by agencies with the clout to ensure quotas are enforced, and anybody caught bending the rules suffers the full might of the law. This will level the playing field for an operator such as Oceana, which has been acquiring fishing rights and assets to diversify its operations across different species and geographies. Oceana has had to import significant quantities of frozen fis...
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