New Skeggs plant
FA Dunedin Skeggs Foods, Ltd, will establish a $400,000 fishpacking plant at Logan Point in Dunedin.
The managing director of Skeggs Foods, Ltd, Mr C. G. Skeggs, said yesterday that the plant will specialise in export squid processing and packing.
He said it would at first employ 12 people, but he intended to extend employment opportunities once the operation was “fully stabil-
The development comes after a Government report which said New Zealand's inshore catching and processing facilities were grossly overcapitalised — the latter to the extent of $5 million.
Mr Skeggs agreed, but said he had been looking at processing options in Dunedin to support his Nelson operation for some time. “We tried to associate ourselves with the other
companies to process fish on our behalf," he said, but negotiations were unsuccessful.
The other fish packing firms in Dunedin are Fletcher fishing, Otakou Fisheries and Globe Export Fisheries.
The Skeggs fleet has an allocation of the deep-water resource and this will partly supply the plant. In addition, it will be “extending the intake” from local inshore fishermen.
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