Cascadia Seaweed wins Ocean Products of the Year Award
Months before their first anniversary, Cascadia Seaweed Corporation is recognized at the Grant Thornton LLP Vancouver Island Business Excellence Awards for Ocean Products.
On Thursday evening at the Westin Bear Mountain Resort in Langford, the Vancouver Island Business Examiner hosted an awards Gala along with presenting sponsor Grant Thornton LLP. Vancouver Island businesses gather at this annual event to network, celebrate accomplishments, and recognize businesses in 17 categories.
Up against businesses from Courtney and Sooke, Cascadia was proud to accept the award for Ocean Products. Cascadia was proud to be in the company of many successful Saanich Peninsula based businesses at the ceremony.
Cascadia Seaweed is a growing company positioned to be the largest cultivator of high quality, in demand seaweed for the human food, bio-packaging and nutraceutical industries of North America, and proud to call Sidney home-base.
With partnerships formed with Nuu-chah-nulth Seafood LP and West Coast First Nations, Cascadia has two seaweed farms in the ocean near Bamfield with first harvest expected in June. President of Cascadia, Mike Williamson says that they are proud of their deliverables, claiming that the small company is reliable and has done exactly what they say they are going to do.
A sample of Cascadia’s sugar kelp is on display at the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea.
