Cape Fur Seal meat will be available for consumption in Namibia in 2015.
“We will first sell locally in Namibia: Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, Arandis, Usakos, Karibib and later internationally. There is a very good market for seal meat at home,” said Gys Cilliers, manager of a seal-processing factory in Henties Bay.
However, he could not give a specific date when the distribution of seal meat would start.
Seal Products Pty (Ltd) factory started operations in August 1999 and initially only exported the meat to China for further processing into animal feed while small amounts of seal meat was sold locally.
Seals have abundant Omega-3 oil, while their skins are exported overseas.
The harvesting of Cape Fur seals takes place annually from July to November to regulate their populations in an effort to avoid them feeding too much thus depleting fish species in Namibian waters.
The Cape Cross seal colony supplies the factory with an annual quota of 21,648 pups and 1,755 bulls.
Meanwhile, an 18 million Namibian dollars (about US$1.6 million) seal-processing plant will open next year in Luderitz. The plant will produce a variety of high-value products derived from various components of the seal for sale to an established Asian market.
“We will first sell locally in Namibia: Walvis Bay, Swakopmund, Arandis, Usakos, Karibib and later internationally. There is a very good market for seal meat at home,” said Gys Cilliers, manager of a seal-processing factory in Henties Bay.
However, he could not give a specific date when the distribution of seal meat would start.
Seal Products Pty (Ltd) factory started operations in August 1999 and initially only exported the meat to China for further processing into animal feed while small amounts of seal meat was sold locally.
Seals have abundant Omega-3 oil, while their skins are exported overseas.
The harvesting of Cape Fur seals takes place annually from July to November to regulate their populations in an effort to avoid them feeding too much thus depleting fish species in Namibian waters.
The Cape Cross seal colony supplies the factory with an annual quota of 21,648 pups and 1,755 bulls.
Meanwhile, an 18 million Namibian dollars (about US$1.6 million) seal-processing plant will open next year in Luderitz. The plant will produce a variety of high-value products derived from various components of the seal for sale to an established Asian market.
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