Quality

At Ardag, quality is our guide in all stages of production and marketing. Our fingerlings live in open-system tanks with fresh seawater. Water and food quality are continually monitored. At a weight of one gram, fingerlings are transferred to our mesh sea cages. Here, in the clean waters of the Red Sea, our professional sea staff raise the fish to maturity. The fish are fed food designed to our specifications- no growth hormones or antibiotics are used.

When the fish are fully grown, they are collected at sea, chilled immediately, and brought to our packing house. The harvest process takes only a few minutes, and the fish remain in a chilled sea water environment during the entire collection and transfer.

At the packing  house, the fish are quickly deep-chilled by our unique, proprietary process.  Packing for air freight takes place immediately, and the fish are transferred to our local international airport within a few hours. Whole, deep-chilled sea bream can arrive at destinations worldwide less than 24 hours after they leave the water. Our special handling and quick packing mean that our fish arrive fresher to their destination and have a longer shelf-life than our competitors' products. We currently ship on a regular basis to the United States, France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, and to our local market in Israel.

Our commitment to quality doesn't stop when a shipment goes to market. In our lab, fish in all stages of development are constantly checked and tested for adherence to our own high standards.  In addition, we have a close and ongoing relationship with the local laboratories of the National Institute  for Oceanic and Limnological Research, a government agency which keeps us up to date on the latest scientific findings in the field of aquaculture.