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Cooke welcomes Seajoy Seafood Full story on page 10 COOKE FAMILY OF COMPANIES NEWSLETTER WINTER 2019 4 16 20 COOKE FAMILY OF COMPANIES NEWSLETTER WINTER 2019 10 25 Message From Glenn 32 Contents In This Issue Special Features In Every Issue A focus on sustainable growth 4 The Big Idea : 16 People and Places : 3 Message from Glenn his has been another very exciting wild seafood such as India and other parts of new technologies to recirculate and filter water Cleanerfish Medical work in rural Alaska 14 Growth and Development year for the Cooke family of Southeast Asia. within our hatcheries and processing facilities companies and for our people. Serving and building more vessels for green sea lice In the News : 24 In the News With growth comes new challenges and 10 Growth and Development : 25 our customers while focusing on treatments. 28 Anchored in Safety opportunities. It’s very satisfying to see how Cooke acquires Seajoy Seafood Fergus Ewing visits Scotland Tenvironmental stewardship remains at the 32 Marketplace our people have stepped up to take on new Additionally, caring for the communities 30 Cooke 2019 Poster forefront of our sustainable growth strategy. 20 Sustainability : 37 Community or expanded roles. Recruitment in some where we operate is a big priority. Providing From small family company Cooke Aquaculture celebrates In 2017 we welcomed Omega Protein to areas such as truck drivers and processors good jobs and contributing to the success of to global seafood leader 48 Awards our family and now we are thrilled to have remain difficult and we are ramping up our local communities is of personal importance another successful wild salmon release 50 Our People Seajoy join us. Seajoy’s entrepreneurial communications efforts to help fill positions. to me and my family, and we will continue to 44 Community : 32 Marketplace : Back Cover : drive, industry knowledge and care for their I encourage you, as a member of Team Cooke, do everything we can to support our people at The Give communities has made them successful to share our vacant positions with your work and at home. Cooke growth in Asia Dip recipes for and are the reasons why we feel this is an friends and families – it means a lot when an 46 Awards : Atlantic Salmon Croquettes This past year we supported a wide array of incredible cultural fit for us. Seajoy also carries employee refers someone. Cooke receives local organizations, individuals and groups a brand synonymous with product excellence 2018 Private Business Growth Award Regardless of what country we operate in or who are working hard to improve the lives of so and environmental leadership. The acquisition sell to, we understand that our relationship many – young and old. As a big extended family of Seajoy is an important element in our Thank you for your editorial or photography support: 59 Global Career Opportunities with Cooke with the environment is vital to our business of over 9,000 people, we are truly blessed to focus on product diversification to meet our and to producing top quality seafood. We be able to help, and I am very proud of the Johanna Alvarez, Chalena Bigger, Danny Boyce, Ross Butler, customers’ needs with the addition of value- Kristen Cook, Glenn Cooke, Justin Corey, Jill Cronk, view this as a significant component of our contributions you help us make every day. added and organic Pacific white shrimp. Julianne Curry, Greg Dunlop, Sheldon George, Rod Gould, corporate social responsibility. There is always On behalf of my family and the Cooke global Peter Groom, Nell Halse, Jennifer Hewitt, We are striving to build new markets while room for improvement – and we continue to try leadership team, I thank each of you across Pedro Ibar Bohnsdalen, Deborah Irvine-Anderson, strengthening existing ones. Cooke now sells new techniques, implement new practices and all the Cooke family of companies, and to our Doug Impagliazzo, Vicci Laird, Ben Landry, Andrew Lively, 17 core species. and ships fresh, sustainable test new equipment. We know the company On the Cover broader network of colleagues, suppliers and Maureen Millier, Tim Milligan, Pepe Morata, Kris Nicholls, True North Seafood branded products to over depends on a healthy marine environment for Betty Nickerson, Jessica O’Kane, Sam Russell, Joel Reed, Seajoy Seafood Corporation science partners, for your ongoing commitment 67 countries. Our company’s biggest markets growing and harvesting seafood. Joel Richardson, Kevin Schyf, Pete Shenton, Debbie Szemerda, is one of the largest vertically and dedication. Our dream is not done yet and are the United States,` France, United Kingdom, Colin Tippett, Rodney Weston, Heather Winebrenner, integrated, premium shrimp For example, this year we are committed we have lots of room to grow sustainably. Israel, Japan, Taiwan, China and Brazil. Market Andrew Young, Devan Zanatta farms in Latin America, and the to further reducing and recycling more of and product diversification are critical to our newest member of the Cooke our styrofoam and plastic waste from our sustainable growth – and we will continue For comments or suggestions, contact Claire Ryan at : Inc. family of companies. Read operations and proactively tidying up ocean to explore new markets for our farmed and [email protected] more about Seajoy on page 10. or shoreline debris. We are also investing in Glenn Cooke, CEO 2 3 The Big Idea hey may have funny names, but the The project initially started more than seven idea so when I got back to Canada, I started lumpfish and cunner may be the years ago. Work with cleanerfish in Norway looking for these wrasse.” future of dealing with sea lice in had inspired Cooke Aquaculture’s Vice He had high hopes wrasse would be found salmon farms up and down North President of Research Dr. Keng Pee Ang. here. TAmerica’s east coast. Lumpfish and cunners In Norway and the UK, farmers were seeing are two species Cooke Aquaculture and “Unfortunately, I found out very quickly amazing success with cleanerfish eating Cleanerfish its scientific research partners have been that we don’t have any Ballan or any of the the sea lice off salmon and the cleanerfish studying as “cleanerfish” and their efforts wrasse that were found in Norway and UK were getting along just fine in cages full of are paying off. waters,” he says. Atlantic salmon. Cooke is taking the lead in Canada on an What he did find was that North America has “I started on the cleanerfish program after innovative and planet friendly way to deal its own wrasse called cunners. While earlier attending a cleanerfish workshop in Norway with sea lice, as the first salmon farming researchers had concluded cunners were in 2009,” says Ang. “I heard about the Ballan company to explore the idea of cleanerfish not suitable cleanerfish in North American wrasse and other wrasses being deployed – symbiotic fish that live with the farmed waters, Ang decided to go with his gut. in salmon cages to graze on sea lice off the salmon and eat the sea lice off the salmon. farmed salmon. I thought this was a great “I decided to ignore this finding and 4 5 The Big Idea: Cleanerfish proceeded to buy some cunners from a local “This is not new in nature, it’s just new for and production. They looked at how to of the population of the salmon farm. So for fisherman so I could conduct my own trial,” eastern Canada,” says Boyce. “It’s an algae domesticate the fish, grow it effectively and example, a farm with 700,000 salmon would he says. eater in a fish tank, it’s a bird on a horse.” care for its health. need 70,000 cleanerfish. Meanwhile in Newfoundland, as an The overall plan to control sea lice is Sheldon George is the regional manager “What I find most interesting is how both academic, Danny Boyce was inspired by the referred to as Integrated Pest Management. for Cooke’s saltwater operations in species of fish coexist in the cages and how same work across the pond. And cleanerfish have an important role to Newfoundland and played a liaison role this cleanerfish program is having positive play. They are natural predators of sea lice between the research and development benefits on both the environment and “I saw what was happening overseas in Developing Lumpfish Eggs and they can live and co-exist happily and team at the OSC and Cooke’s commercial salmonid production,” says George. Norway and the UK, I said, ‘Oh maybe this is healthily with salmon to reduce sea lice salmon production sites. He provided the something in Atlantic Canada that may be a Using cleanerfish is considered a novel numbers. information the research team needed for 10 degree days 30 degree days valuable tool for the industry.’” and green approach to reducing sea lice the ocean sites and would report back to the Cooke Aquaculture partnered with Danny on farmed salmon. The cleanerfish used Sea lice are a naturally occurring part of OSC as to how the cleanerfish were doing on Boyce at the Ocean Science Centre (OSC) at in Canada, while not the same fish used in the ecosystem of the Atlantic Ocean and the farms. Memorial University to see if cleanerfish Norwegian waters, are proving to be just as have become a growing concern for Atlantic could work in the salmon farms in the The researchers at the OSC incubate the effective. salmon farmers around the world. These waters off Newfoundland. “Collaborating lumpfish eggs which take around 300 naturally occurring parasites can have a “This differs from traditional management with the OSC was a natural progression degree days to hatch.