Glenarm Organic Smoked Salmon at top Asian food expo

Buyers at Asia's biggest food and drink showcase will be able to sample organic smoked salmon from Northern Ireland.

Glenarm Organic Salmon, the only Atlantic salmon farmer in the Irish Sea and the producer of premium organic salmon, is stepping up its marketing drive in Asia at the big HOFEX 17, food and hospitality exhibition in Hong Kong.

The Northern Ireland company already supplies its organic salmon to high-end restaurants and hotels in Hong Kong. Other major customers for the smoked salmon include Fortnum and Mason in London.

The company will be in Hong Kong following success at the international Seafex show in Boston last month.

John Russell, managing director of Glenarm Organic Salmon, says: "Asia is becoming an important market for us. We will be showcasing our organic smoked salmon which won many plaudits at Seafex 17.

"Our smoked salmon has a rich and distinctive flavour that comes from salmon raised on seawater farms located in the Irish Sea, where the currents and tidal flows ensure optimal exercise and firm muscle formation. Our organic salmon farms benefit immensely from an extremely clean and healthy environment," he adds.

Based in the historic village of Glenarm, county Antrim, Glenarm produces up to 600 tonnes of organic salmon each year for export weekly across 15 countries from Singapore in the East to San Francisco in the West to high-end customers seeking premium quality seafood from responsible and sustainable aquaculture.

Glenarm's on-growing farms are located in Glenarm Bay and Red Bay off the Antrim coast, separated by 11 miles of fast flowing coastal seawater. Each farm is stocked with a different generation of organically reared smolts all sourced from the island of Ireland giving us the ability to supply our customers with fresh premium organic salmon all year round.

Glenarm Organic Salmon is accredited by the Organic Food Federation and Bio Suisse.