Canada-based Clearwater Seafoods and Glaciar Pesquera S.A., Argentina, added a newly designed, state-of-the-art factory vessel to their Argentine scallop fleet, replacing and retiring one of the two existing vessels. The now fully-operational vessel strengthens Clearwater's leadership in innovative, sustainable seafood harvesting.
The Capesante—Italian for "scallop"—joins the company's Argentine fleet based in the port of Ushuaia. The vessel was originally built in Spain in 2002, and has been completely renovated. Now measuring 52 meters long and 12 meters wide, it includes a new, larger fresh-frozen processing plant, and sails year-round in the waters at the edge of the Continental Shelf, up to 200 miles off the Argentine coast.