Thomas Fish Company

Tampa Bay Fisheries, founded in 1991 and located in Dover, Fla., is one of the leading shrimp packers in the United States. The company is approved by the Food and Drug Administration s Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point program. It provides a wide range of products, such as breaded shrimp, scallops, oysters, fish, crab stuffed products, crab cakes, and cooked shrimp. Tampa Bay Fisheries operates a processing facility at Dover, which is spread on an area of more than 240,000-square-feet. The company also owns a more than 60,000-square-foot plant in Jacksonville. It processes over 1 million-pounds of seafood every week, and also has an on-site freezer with a capacity of more than 10 million-pounds.

Bama Sea Products is a major producer of domestic shrimp, including browns, whites and the highly prized Key West Pink Shrimp. In addition, the company produces in excess of a million pounds of fresh fish each month. Fresh fish species include, salmon, grouper, snapper, mahi, tilapia, trout and multiple other varieties, making Bama Sea Products a leader in the seafood industry. It has a full staff of quality control personnel that ensure products meet the highest level of quality. Since Bama was the first domestic seafood company to institute HACCP in the early 1990s, the company is obligated to stay ahead of the industries typical requirements. Bama Sea Products maintains an operation in St. Petersburg, Fla.

Tampa Maid Foods Inc. specializes in the business of sourcing, processing and marketing specialty seafood, as well as commodity raw and cooked shrimp from around the world to the foodservice and retail markets. Its product categories include Crab, Fish, Oysters and Mussels among others. All the plants of the company are Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) approved. In 1987, Tampa Maid Foods Inc. purchased Bayou Foods, a seafood specialty company from General Mills Inc. It is a part of Watkins Associated Industries, a family owned company in the United States.