UK-born salmon processing veteran Jonathan Brown is seeking to raise $150 million and secure a partner for a fully integrated, “egg to retail pack” recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) farm on the East Coast of the US.

Brown, who sold the US Macknight Food Group (MFG) smoked salmon plants in Florida and Nevada to private equity McCarthy Capital earlier this year, has purchased a 90-acre site in the state of Maryland, which is “fully licensed” to farm up to 60,000 metric tons, he told Undercurrent News [...]