Langoustine / Cigala season is on.

All shellfish types enjoyed steady prices and good demand over the Christmas period. Major expansion and upgrading is going on in the live holding and conditioning establishment at Troon Seafood Market, with main emphasis on live conditioned langoustine, and Scottish caught lobsters. Ice making faclities are being re introduced at Girvan, where an upsurge in local fleet is welcome. It is hoped that youngsters will start to see the fishing as an exiting and viable future, arresting the decline of the last few years. New coldstore,freezers, and re location of frozen department has been completed at Ayr.

Important message to suppliers and customers. Confusion reigns in the splitting of Scotprime Companies, following Ron Cooks sale of the Grimsby operation to Direct Seafoods. Scotprime Seafoods Ltd, are still Ayr based and are not related in any way to the newer company Scotprime Seafoods ( Grimsby) Ltd VAT, No. 847 7718 75. In general their activities are different, and they are owned and managed in England.