The deal will include Icicle’s three business units, which harvest and process over 150,000 metric tons of seafood annually.
Cooke Seafood, Hyannis, Maine, signed a definitive agreement to purchase Icicle Seafoods, Inc., Seattle, Wash., to enhance the company’s investments in both the wild fishery and the aquaculture sectors.
“The closing of this deal will be an exciting venture for us as it will add a well-respected fishery to our family businesses,” says Glenn Cooke, president of Cooke Seafood Inc. “We have tremendous respect for the Alaska fishery and its highly valued brand in the seafood marketplace. Our family and our business is rooted in a small coastal fishing town on the East coast of Canada, and we have become a mainstay to communities in rural and coastal Maine. We look forward to meeting with similar communities in Alaska and supporting them for the long term.”