China Tilapia Supplier Expanding His Farms

“New Zealander Jason Carter always knew he was an entrepreneur at heart, but running a fully vertically integrated tilapia business in China was not exactly what he planned on when he travelled to Taiwan to teach English in the early 2000s,” Jeanine Stewart writes for Undercurrent News.

“‘New Zealanders, we like to travel, but I couldn’t afford Europe,’ Carter said from his headquarters in Guangxi province, where his company Elite Seafood is in the midst of seeding three new tilapia farm sites.

“These new sites – projected to increase the company’s production by 30 to 40 per cent in the next year – add to the one farm the company has run since Carter and Taiwanese businessman J.C. Chou founded the company in 2004.

“‘Everyone wants to increase and build their business,’ Carter said of China’s fish farming industry. ‘We believe that having resources is going to be very important in China – it’s key to our business.’

“Now the company is in the process of looking for more farming supervisors to man its newly-grown operations and budgeting for more workers as the weather heats up and stocking begins.”

Original article by Jeanine Stewart, Undercurrent News, April 2, 2014.