Canned blue crab meat produced through a partnership between the Scardovari Cooperative Consortium and Taprobane Sea Food in Sri Lanka
We’ll be buying it at the supermarket, in a tin just like tuna. We’re talking about the blue crab – yes, that’s right, the very one that three years ago was a threat to the ecosystem and is now an agri-food resource. Perhaps. The turnaround is explained by Paolo Mancin, president of the Polesine Fishermen’s Cooperative Consortium, based in Porto Tolle in the province of Rovigo, on the Veneto side of the Po Delta: the other side, the Emilia-Romagna side, is based in Goro in the province of Ferrara.
“At the moment,” says Mancin, “we’re catching three tonnes of crabs a day: we’re selling the whole lot to Sri Lanka. Basically, a 15-tonne container leaves every week.” The catch is processed (steamed and frozen) at the plant of the new company Granchio Blu Trading in Scardovari-Porto Tolle (Rovigo), a subsidiary of Taprobane Sea Food, the Sri Lankan company founded in 2011 by Timothy O’Reilly and Dilan Fernando, which extracts the meat manually before exporting it to the United States, Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico in particular. From there, it is a short step to the tin.
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