Atlantic Sea Cucumber Find Success with Commercialization

Atlantic Sea Cucumber Ltd., a local company that started operating in 2015, saw an opportunity to sell to Asian markets. In 2016 they began processing and exporting 1,100 pounds of sea cucumbers per day to Asia from their facility in Hacketts Cove, N.S., a rural community within Halifax Regional Municipality.
The company uses steam to cook its products, which preserves their nutritional value and chewy texture. The difficult nature of this process and the company’s rural location made labour retention an issue. The Halifax Partnership was able to connect Atlantic Sea Cucumber to partners and funding programs including the Applied Research Department at Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) and the Atlantic Immigration Pilot.
Thanks to these connections and a grant secured by NSCC, Atlantic Sea Cucumber will be undertaking a project that will see NSCC engineering students find innovative ways to automate and improve production processes at the plant.
--ABOUT ATLANTIC SEA CUCUMBER--
Atlantic Sea Cucumber Ltd. processes the best wild Canadian sea cucumber caught fresh from the coastal waters of Nova Scotia, Canada. We produce only the highest quality Canadian sea cucumber products for our discerning customers.
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--ABOUT HALIFAX PARTNERSHIP--
In collaboration with Halifax Regional Municipality and our many partners, we mobilize and lead our community in executing Halifax's Economic Growth Plan. Together, we are working toward an ambitious long-term vision to grow Halifax's population to 550,000 and its GDP to $30 billion by 2031. In short, we help keep, grow, and get, business, talent, and investment in Halifax.
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