A Southern California “seafood robotics” company announced Wednesday that it has acquired a Washington state facility that will become its first processing plant.
Shinkei Systems said that the 16,000-square-foot facility in Tacoma would serve as a “strategic hub” for the seafood industry on the West Coast, as well as allow the company to scale its “Seremoni Grade” fish nationwide.
Shinkei says that Seremoni Grade represents the “highest-quality wild-caught seafood” produced through an “end-to-end” tech stack of robotics, tracking and storage practices. The Tacoma plant, officials said, would allow it to maintain quality control from catch through processing…