Former Mariner Seafoods plant in Brudenell on track to open in May

A new fish plant on the site of the former Mariner Seafoods in Brudenell has reached the next phase of development.

The owner, Red Chamber Co., has filed an environmental impact assessment and the province is now reviewing it.

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The public will be able to look at the assessment and hear about plans for the fish plant at an open house on April 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Lanes Riverhouse Inn in Montague. Anyone who cannot attend can give feedback on the plans directly to the P.E.I. Department of Environment.

Red Chamber Co. plans to use the fish plant to its full capacity, which will create several processing jobs, the company's lawyer David Prince told CBC News from his office in Los Angeles.

Before it closed in 2012, Mariner Seafoods employed as many as 200 workers in Brudenell.

Red Chamber Co. has been renovating the plant and is on track to open in May, in time for the spring lobster fishery, Prince said.

The same owners bought a fish plant in North Lake in 2013.

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