A boutique seafood brand on the Digha coast that cleans, freezes and vacuum-packs daily local catch into retail SKUs sold to walk-in tourists and Kolkata B2B buyers, capturing the value tourists and city kitchens pay for.
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The business cleans, freezes and vacuum-packs daily marine catch from the Digha-Mandarmani coast into branded retail seafood SKUs, sold both to the heavy weekend tourist footfall and to Kolkata restaurants and e-grocers. It sharpens the original tourism-plus-seafood mashup onto the stronger, year-round seafood thread. It stands on the district's marine-fisheries and coastal-aquaculture atom and the Digha tourism flow that supplies a captive walk-in customer base, and captures the raw-catch-to-cleaned-frozen-vacuum-packed-seafood gap. The defining constraint is cold-chain integrity: seafood is unforgiving, and a single break in chilling or hygiene destroys both the product and the brand, so HACCP-grade handling and reliable refrigerated storage and transport are non-negotiable. Seasonality of tourist demand and consistency of landings add to the working-capital pressure. Buyers are weekend tourists buying take-home packs, Kolkata seafood restaurants and cloud kitchens, and urban e-grocery platforms wanting traceable, ready-to-cook coastal seafood.
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