Miami, FL, June 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Star Foods Corp., (“Blue Star,” the “Company,” “we,” “our” or “us”) (NASDAQ: BSFC), an integrated Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) sustainable seafood company with a focus on Recirculatory Aquaculture Systems (RAS), is pleased to announce that it has been granted an extension renewal for the land-based aquaculture license thru 2033. All parts of this license are issued under the authority of the Fisheries Act and confer, subject to provisions of the Fisheries Act and Regulations made there under, the authority to carry out aquaculture activities including cultivation and harvest of fish.
The license renewal encompasses the Taste of BC Aquafarms located at 2948, 2930 and 2934 Jameson Road. The aquaculture license covers white sturgeon, coho salmon, chinook salmon and rainbow trout.
John Keeler, Chairman and CEO of Blue Star Foods, commented, “We are very pleased to receive this license renewal for the next 9 years, as it enables us to maintain a responsible and realistic period to continue our land-based facilities. We have the proven technology for land-based already operating the longest non-stopped steelhead salmon facility.”
About Blue Star Foods Corp. (NASDAQ: BSFC)
Blue Star Foods Corp. an integrated Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) sustainable seafood company with a focus on Recirculatory Aquaculture Systems (RAS) that processes, packages and sells high-value seafood products. The Company believes it utilizes best-in-class technology, in both resource sustainability management and traceability, and ecological packaging. The Company also owns and operates the oldest continuously operating Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS) full grow-out salmon farm in North America. The company is based in Miami, Florida, and its corporate website is: https://bluestarfoods.com
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