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Oman Fisheries seafood is sourced from the unpolluted Omani waters
Seafood from the Clear Omani Waters
(OMAN, 5/20/2010)
Oman Fisheries Company (Public, MSM:OFCI), a seafood processor and marketer, is the largest fishing company in the Sultanate of Oman. The company offers a variety of fresh and frozen fish products from unpolluted seas to the global markets.
Oman Fisheries’ processing, manufacturing and cold storage facilities are spread over various parts of the Sultanate of Oman, which enables the company to cater to the requirements of global markets. Oman Fisheries obtains fish from local fishermen through a network of procurement and processing centres all along the coast of Oman and also from their own deep-sea trawler fishing in the Omani Waters.
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| Oman Fisheries obtains seafood from a network of fishermen and trawlers |
With fish available from this network of fishermen and trawlers, Oman Fisheries can supply customers with a widest range of seafood, including demersal fish, pelagic species, tuna (yellow fin, kawakawa, bonito and long tail), land and sea frozen cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus and squid), crustaceans (rock lobster and shrimps), fresh fish and breaded and battered seafood.
The well connected air routes and excellent logistics support, allows Oman Fisheries to export fresh fish to all the European Union (EU), United States (U.S), Middle East, and Far East Asia. The company process as per the requirements of customers. The main species exported as fresh are yellow fin tuna, sword fish, mahi mahi, king fish, red seabreams, silver seabreams, groupers, amber Jack, emperor, red mullet, job fish, barracuda, croakers, trevally in the form of whole, gutted, dressed, fillet and loins.
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| Taqa brand of breaded and battered seafood products |
The company has also launched an entire range of ready to eat breaded and battered seafood products under the brand name of Taqa. The range includes traditional breaded products like fish nuggets, fish burgers, fish fingers, jumbo shrimp crispies, breaded prawns, new products like pop corn shrimps, breaded squids rings, breaded cuttlefish cubes.
This range of breaded products has the EU approval to be exported. Oman Fisheries’s Taqa breaded and battered seafood products are available in supermarkets in Oman, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar and are exported to middle east, U.S, Canada and Africa.
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| Taqa branded breaded products has the EU approval to be exported |
Plants at Muscat, Al-Ashkara, Masirah and Salalah are well equipped with blast freezers and plate freezers with freezing capacity of 100 tons per day. The plant at Al Buraimi, near Dubai, was set up in the year 2002 to produce ready to eat seafood products. This plant also has been EU approved and has been HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) accredited.
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Omani fishermen
(Photo: Brian Espinosa)
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About Oman Fisheries Co.
Oman Fisheries Company was formed in 1989 through the Royal Decree of the Government of the Sultanate of Oman as a Joint Stock Company.
The Sultanate of Oman is situated in the eastern most corner of the Arabian Peninsula neighbouring UAE, Saudi Arabia Yemen and Iran. The east boundaries have a 1700 km coast line facing the Indian Ocean.
The country is a member of many environment protection organizations and has won many international awards. The government strictly controls pollution and environment measures and the seas are unpolluted.
Margaret E.L. Stacey
Editor Companies and Products
Information of the company:
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Address:
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P.O. Box 2900
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City:
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Ruwi
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State/ZIP:
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(112)
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Oman
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Phone:
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+968 2450 9500/01
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Fax:
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+968 2459 7804
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E-Mail:
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[email protected]
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https://www.instagram.com/omanfisheries/
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