The Cooke family’s group of companies began with Cooke Aquaculture, which was established in 1985 as Kelly Cove Salmon by Gifford, Michael and Glenn Cooke. 

Photo: Glenn Cooke

The company’s origins were humble, beginning with a single marine cage site containing 5,000 salmon. Four years later the family decided it needed a consistent and independent supply of eggs and smolt so it purchased Oak Bay Hatchery.

Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Cooke Aquaculture processes and sells more than 115 million pounds of Atlantic salmon and 35 million pounds of trout each year.

Brands & Companies acquisitions:

• The True North Salmon Company (established 1994)
• Heritage Salmon (acquired in 2005)
• Allavoix (acquired in 2002)
• The Jail Island (acquired in 2003)
• Salmones Cupquelan S.A. ( acquired in 2008)
• July 22, 2011, Cooke Aquaculture has inked a deal to acquire Morpol ASA subsidiary Culmarex SA. Culmarex is Spain’s largest seabass and seabream farming operation.
• May 14, 2014 - Blacks Harbour NB Canada: Cooke Aquaculture announce the closing of its deal with Marine Harvest for the purchase of its fully owned subsidiary, Meridian Salmon Farms Limited.
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• 2014
• Cooke achieves Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification for North America.
  
• Cooke acquires Meridian Salmon Farms Limited (now Cooke Aquaculture Scotland).
  
• 2015
• Cooke family creates Cooke Seafood USA Inc. and acquires the Wanchese Fish Company.
  
• 2016 
• Cooke Seafood acquires Icicle Seafoods, Inc.
  
• Cooke Seafood USA acquires Grinfin, a hake fishery subsidiary of Fripur based in Argentina.
• Cooke family acquire the assets of Fripur S.A., and establishes Cooke Uruguay.
• Cooke Aquaculture Chile acquires Marine Harvest processing plant in Tepual, Chile.
  
• 2017
• Cooke Inc. acquires Omega Protein, a nutritional product company and a leading integrated provider of specialty oils and specialty protein products.
• 2017
• Cooke Inc acquires Seajoy Seafood Corporation one of the largest vertically integrated, premium shrimp farms in Latin America.