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Oceanpick Wins Merit Award at Presidential Export Awards 2025
Oceanpick has been honoured with the Merit Award for Seafood & Aquaculture Products at the Presidential Export Awards 2025, held recently in Colombo.
Oceanpick is named a finalist for the UNIDO ONE World Sustainability Awards
Oceanpick Pvt Ltd is proud to be named a finalist for the UNIDO ONE World Sustainability Awards in the Sustainable Supply Chains category at the 21st UNIDO General Conference & Global Industry Summit in Riyadh.
We’re Making Waves for a Greener Future: Oceanpick Wins Bronze at the Presidential Environment Awards 2025
We are proud to announce that our China Bay, Trincomalee farm has been honoured with the Bronze Award at the Presidential Environment Awards 2025, under the Animal Farm Category (Type C & D). This milestone holds special meaning — Oceanpick is the only aquaculture...
The Next Billion-Dollar Fish and Why Global Investors are Taking Notice
When you think of seafood heavyweights, salmon, shrimp, and tuna usually top the list. But quietly making waves is another contender — Barramundi. Once considered niche, this versatile white fish is now dubbed the “next billion-dollar fish” and it’s winning over...
Oceanpick Joins Hands with Trincomalee Authorities and Eastern University to Protect Marine Eco Systems
In honor of World Coastal Cleanup Day on September 20th 2025, Oceanpick led a major coastal cleanup campaign at the Back-Bay coastal area in Trincomalee. The initiative brought together Trincomalee government authorities, enthusiastic students from Eastern University,...
World Fisheries Day 2024
Fishing as one of humanity’s oldest professions, which has been profoundly altered in recent years. Modern fishing has drifted towards “predatory practices and technology” that undermines sustainable practices. This imbalance has taken a toll on the marine ecosystem...
Nature’s Friendliest Protector – The Humble Mangrove
Every year on July 26th the world celebrates World Mangrove Day. This year it aims to raise awareness about the crucial mangrove ecosystem, to promote the conservation and sustainable growth of mangrove forests. Overall, mangroves are disappearing 3 to 5 times faster...
Oceanpick Founder Irfan Thassim dreams of 100-year Sri Lankan barramundi legacy
In his mid-40s, Irfan Thassim had a comfortable position as the CEO of a subsidiary of one of the largest and most admired companies in Sri Lanka. Thassim had been with his company – a major player in the country’s textile and apparel industry – for 20 years. While he...
Oceanpick premium product Barramundi enters Europe
Oceanpick, Sri Lanka’s first and South Asia’s largest oceanic finfish farm, has reached another momentous milestone for its ocean-grown Barramundi having successfully entered the European market through its strategic partnership with Kangamiut Seafood. Kangamiut...
Denmark’s Kangamiut teams with Sri Lankan Barramundi producer
Sri Lankan barramundi farmer Oceanpick is entering the European market for the first time through a partnership with Danish seafood supplier and exporter Kangamiut Seafood, which is part of Denmark's Kangamiut Group. Oceanpick farms barramundi in northeastern Sri...