Macduff Shellfish

Macduff Shellfish Group ("Macduff") is one of Europe's leading wild shellfish processors and is a vertically integrated business, owning 14 mid-shore scallop harvesting vessels and production plants in Mintlaw and Stornoway , Scotland . The business specializes in scallops, langoustines, whelk and crab, has sales of approximately £52 million and trades globally, employing over 400 people at the seasonal peak. Macduff has been an active consolidator in the UK fishing sector in recent years acquiring Scott Trawlers, Saltire Fisheries, four vessels and a whelk procurement and distribution business from The Greendale Group and the former Young's Seafood factory in Stornoway . The business was set up in 1985 by the Beaton family in Macduff, buying and selling live shellfish direct from the fishermen for freight to Europe. The factory in Mintlaw was bought in 1996 as the company diversified from chilled into frozen shellfish, the mainstay of its current operation.