Rooney Fish

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Established in 1975, Rooney Fish is a family-owned and managed company based in Kilkeel, County Down which specializes in the processing, cooking, chilling and freezing of fresh Shellfish.

The company operates from one of the industries most modern and EC approved processing plants with extensive freezing storage capacity. It sources its shellfish from local fishing fleet, purchasing about 90 % of the local catch.

This fresh shellfish is carefully prepared to the strictest quality controls meeting all EC standards and captures the delicious seafood flavour by fast nitrogen freezing at -135oC.
The company installed new and fully automated cooking machinery that enables them to offer customers new added-value products. This machinery was developed in association with a team of Canadian engineers with vast experience in the shellfish processing industry. The unique cooking system is the only one of its type in operation throughout the global industry.

Rooney Fish invested around three million euro in this new machinery three years ago to meet market opportunities. They have expanded in recent years and now has offices in France, Spain and Italy. They also has distributors in Dubai, Croatia, Slovenia and Japan.

Fresh/Chilled–Cooked Chilled:
Whole prawns (Langoustines/ Nephrops)
King Scallops
Queenies
Brown Crab
Crab Claws
Crab Meat
Velvet Crab
Green Crab
Lobster
Oyster
Whelks
Winkles
Frozen:
Whole prawns (Langoustines/ Nephrops), scampi
scampi tails
king scallops
Queenies
Whelks Shell on
Whelks Shell off
Brown Crab
Crab Claws
Crab Meat
Velvet Crab
Green Crab
Winkles
Live:
Lobster
Oyster
Winkles
Velvet Crab
Shrimp
Brown Crab

Customers in Europe, Dubai, Hong Kong and Japan

Accreditations

  • Rooney Fish has recently received the Seafish Quality Processor Award at highest level
  • HACCP
  • Investors in People

Awards held

  • Great Taste Awards 2023: Two Gold Stars awarded to our Millbay Oysters
  • Blas na h'Eireann Irish Food Awards 2022: Bronze Award for Millbay Oysters
  • Great Taste Awards 2022: Two Gold Stars awarded to our Millbay Oyster's
  • Blas na h'Eireann Irish Food Awards 2021: Gold award and the 'Best in Down' Award for our Millbay Oysters
  • Great Taste Awards 2021: Three Gold Stars for our Pacific Oysters
  • Great Taste Awards 2020: Two Gold Stars for our Millbay Oysters
  • Blas na h'Eireann Awards 2019: Silver award for Millbay Oysters
  • Great Taste Awards 2019: Three Gold Stars awarded to Millbay Oysters & 2 Gold Stars awarded to Millbay Oysters with Gin.
  • Blas na h'Eireann Irish Food Awards 2018: Gold awarded to Millbay Oysters and the 2018 Blas na h'Eireann Supreme Champion Award (first NI company to achieve this accolade) & the Shane McArdle Shield for Best Product in Ulster
  • International Taste & Quality Institute Brussels 2018: Millbay Oysters awarded 2 Gold Stars Blue & Gold
  • Great Taste Awards 2018: One Gold Star awarded to our Pacific Oysters & Snap Crab Claws
  • Great Taste Awards 2017: Three Gold Stars awarded to our Pacific Oysters
  • Northern Ireland Food Manufacturing Awards 2017: Export Initiative / Company of the Year Award

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