Sri Lankan Sea Food Suppliers

The sea food industry of Sri Lanka can be divided into many small parts. Broadly it can be divided into the classification such as domestic trade and the international trade. In the domestic trade also there are various types of people concentrating on various different target groups in the country.

There are the small fish sellers all around the country. And there are these sellers such as the ‘Fresh Fish’ who are selling to a much higher target group with an extensive range of outlets in Colombo and suburbs. Furthermore with the introduction of the Supermarkets to this country there are some of the value added products marketed by the Sri Lankan businessmen such as cleaned packeted cuttle fish, Peeled prawns etc… which has a high demand.

Apart from that there are many exporters who exports sea food based products to the International market. There are around ten major suppliers of the processed sea food to the European, Japanese and the USA markets such as the Agro Marine, Alpex Marine, Secco and Indiwary Aqua to name a few. These suppliers process the sea food in factories mainly situated in the Western Province which are constructed according to the highest international quality standards. The highest income of the sea food exports comes from the tuna, shrimps and crabs whilst the other sea food exports such as lobsters, crab shells, octopus, shark fins also brings a substantial amount of foreign income to the country.

Few years back Sri Lankan suppliers used to produce the fish and by farming specially designed for the breeding of the prawns for the international market but the White Spot Disease which affected the entire prawn farming nearly flattened the industry. But due to the determination of the businessmen who were involved in the industry they were able to find out other means and survive in the market. Now this could be identified as a prime source of income generator to the country in the years to come.