Global Seafoods impacting local value-added production

Allison Butters-Grant

Residents of large areas of south Georgetown enjoy the convenience of not having to travel to city markets to buy freshly caught, ready-to-cook fish. Situated virtually in their backyards is Global Seafoods processing plant where fish is cleaned, gutted and scaled, packaged according to approved environmental and handling requirements, and blast-frozen before distribution.

A portion of the produce which includes trout, Banga Mary, red and grey snapper, shark and prawns, go through another process in the value-added chain to make it pan-ready. It is seasoned with locally available condiments and packaged in fillet or nugget form. Yet another portion is filleted, de-boned, salted and dried then packaged