The Ciulla family, recipients of a Cabinet-level apology in May for a decade of government law enforcement harassment against the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction it founded and has operated at Harbor Loop, Wednesday announced the sale of the business.
President and CEO Larry Ciulla said the family sold for an undisclosed amount to Kristian Kristensen, the president and owner of Zeus Packing Co., a dogfish and skate processor that has been a tenant at the Ciullas' facility.
The transaction was completed on Friday, and will not interrupt the normal business activities at the auction house, Ciulla said. The auction is the linchpin of the Gloucester waterfront economy, and the leading platform for the brokering of seafood taken from the Gulf of Maine.
"It was just time," Ciulla said in a telephone interview.
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