DANVERS — Nova Scotia-based High Liner Foods is consolidating, after netting three seafood companies in recent years, and yesterday it said it will close its processing plant on Electronics Avenue.
The company plans to stop frozen seafood processing at Danvers Industrial Park sometime in the first quarter of next year, meaning the loss of 127 hourly workers who run the plant, the company said in a statement.
High Liner Foods processes about 25 million pounds of seafood, primarily haddock, cod and pollock, in Danvers.
Another 125 salaried jobs in administration, sales and marketing will remain for the time being at what was the company's headquarters in the United States, said Keith Decker, president and chief operating officer of High Liner Foods (USA), in a statement. The company is evaluating its options for the Danvers facility.
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