Omega Protein Corporation is a U.S.-based seafood ingredient company founded in 1913 and headquartered in Reedville, Virginia. It harvests menhaden and processes marine raw materials into fish oil, fish meal and protein ingredients used in animal feed, aquaculture, and dietary supplements.
Typically engages on fisheries management and harvest-limit policy, marine and environmental regulation affecting commercial fishing and processing, coastal economic development and permitting, aquaculture and feed-ingredient regulation, maritime safety and labor issues, and trade rules affecting ingredient exports and imports.
Commercial revenues from sale of fish oil, fish meal and related ingredients, with capital and corporate support from its parent company (Cooke Inc.)
Cooke Inc.; Bioriginal (subsidiary); Wisconsin Specialty Protein; Ocean Fleet Services
Private company (subsidiary of Cooke Inc.)