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Canterbury Seafoods are a 100% family owned and operated wholesale seafood export company.
Canterbury Seafoods started off at humble beginnings with a retail shop in 1983, then several years later moving on to different processing factories and starting a seafood transport business, until building our purpose built export factory in 2009 which we currently operate from.
To this day we are still committed to our core values of processing the freshest and highest quality seafood, maintaining our strong client base and working together to make New Zealand Seafood among the best in the world.
New Zealand’s commercial fishing industry is managed and conserved by New Zealand’s world leading quota management system which was introduced in 1986. Every kg of the 1000+ tonnes of commercial seafood that goes through Canterbury Seafoods' factory each year is accounted for through the quota management system. We strive to maintain our practices of commercial fishing through the quota management system to preserve New Zealand’s pristine fishing grounds for many generations to come.