About Island Seafare - 'About Island Seafare, our history, aims and mail order service'

Island Seafare was established in 1991, specifically to process king and queen scallops, which are day fished from the clear waters surrounding the Isle of Man. Our main focus has been to provide fresh and frozen scallops to the trade throughout Europe, where our name has become synonymous with the highest quality scallops available. Thanks to early measures taken to prevent over fishing and the implementation of conservation restrictions on the size of scallop landed, the Isle of Man is well known for the larger size of scallop it produces.

In June 1995 we moved into our new purpose built factory located in the south of the Island on the pier in Port St Mary. Our EEC approved premises are finished to an impressive standard. All areas of our factory are subjected to rapid hygiene monitoring throughout the production process. We trace each landing to the source thereby maintaining the strictest quality control possible.

We had received many requests over the years to extend our product range and sell to the general public. As a result we opened our second factory in 1999, to concentrate on the preparation of a wide range of fresh fish and seafood and the production of the finest smoked salmon available. In addition to supplying the local retail and restaurant trade we can now offer our expanded product range to the general public through our mail order service. We want to share with you what the trade has enjoyed for years, the highest quality seafood, fresh fish, shellfish and smoked salmon, delivered direct to your door from the producer.

Our mail order service has proven very popular since it's launch in 1999. This is mainly because we can supply a first class product that hasn't had to pass through the usual supply chains, which of course takes time. At first people were sceptical of receiving seafood by mail order, but we have proved that with our chilled packaging delivered to your door by noon the next day, that the quality in no way suffers. Our vacuum packing is ideal for home freezing so you do not have to eat everything at once.