Northern Irish Rooney Fish for Conxemar 2017
Rooney Fish, Northern Ireland's leading fish and seafood export business, will be representing the region at Conxemar, the big International frozen seafood exhibition at Vigo in Spain from 3-5 October.
Based at Kilkeel, Northern Ireland's biggest seafood port, Rooney will be showcasing a broad range of fish and seafood including its multi-award winning Mill Bay Oysters, a winner of three stars in the latest UK Great Taste Awards.
Conxemar is regarded as the meeting point for the entire processing sector: wholesalers, importers, exporters, transformers, manufacturers, distributors, cold storages, machinery, auxiliary industry (cooling, packaging, plastics, etc).
Rooney will be the only exhibitor from Northern Ireland among 300 from across the world at the exhibition, now one of the two most important ones in the world.
Rooney Fish director Andrew Rooney says: "Conxemar is a significant event for us in Spain, one of our most important markets. It's also an event which enables us to extend existing contacts and develop new ones in the seafood industry."
Rooney Fish is a family-run business established in 1975 and now in its second generation. The company specialises in all types of shellfish including langoustines, whelks, brown and velvet crabs, lobsters and fish. It opened an oyster farm in the pristine waters of Carlingford Lough in 2014. The oysters won a Great Taste three-star award in the first year of production and followed this up with the same award this year.
The oysters are depurated in the company's own state-of-the-art depuration system, using the latest technologies to ensure healthy and safe products for customers.
It exports fish and seafood worldwide to key markets including Europe and Asia. The company also operates a fleet of fishing vessels.
Rooney's plant in Kilkeel is among the most modern in the industry and is fully EC approved. Processes operated include nitrogen and blast freezing, cooking, extensive cold storage, in-house laboratory facilities and packaging to the highest hygiene standards.