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The nascent seafood industry in the Gulf has good prospects of growth and expansion as public awareness on the health benefits of sea food consumptions, say seafood representatives from the region. "The seafood industry in the Gulf is developing and it is mostly because of change in diet. There is a focus on the Middle East on healthier eating and seafood provides a healthy balanced diet," says Laurence Cook, director of communications of the privately owned Saudi National Prawn Company (NPC) . . . read more

A Middle East fully-integrated shrimp company has started the second phase of its planned development which will give it a total production area of over 34 times the size of Monaco. National Prawn Company (NPC) is located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Al Lith province, around 150 kilometers south of Jeddah along the south-eastern coast of the Red Sea . . . read more