Oceanpick (Pvt) Ltd began as a concept formulated in late 2011, born of the founder's conviction that the abundant seas around Sri Lanka were being under-used. Nearly 1,400km of coastline surrounds the island, yet over 90% of the country's fish still comes from wild capture, and what aquaculture existed was concentrated in brackish lagoons, freshwater bodies and inland ponds. The founder travelled through Europe to study the industry at its source. Today Oceanpick is Sri Lanka's first offshore oceanic finfish farm and South Asia's first at commercial scale, partnered with a Scottish farming company that pioneered oceanic farming in the North Atlantic some 40 years ago, producing salmon, rainbow trout and halibut.

Our company is an ocean farming specialist. After considerable research and evaluation, we selected the waters off Trincomalee on Sri Lanka's north-east coast, roughly 12 miles offshore, where water depth and tidal current profiles proved ideal for high-quality offshore aquaculture and where the bay, one of the world's deepest natural harbours, remains free of large-scale industrial activity. We specialise in barramundi (Lates calcarifer), also known as Asian seabass, reared in open sea cages so that salinity, temperature, oxygen and current are as nature provides them, rather than as a pond or recirculating system approximates them. This oceanic rearing follows the natural biology of the fish and is the source of its taste and texture.

We produce a complete range from a single species. Whole fish is supplied fresh or frozen, gilled and gutted or gutted and scaled, from 700g to 1.5kg and above, and gill-bled whole round to 20kg cartons. Fillets are available skin-on or skinless, pin-bone out, from 100g to 500g and in ounce grades from 5oz to 14oz, including belly-on and D-trim cuts. Centre-cut portions run skin-on or skin-off from 80g to 200g and 3oz to 8oz, individually or twin vacuum-packed. We also produce marinated and value-added lines, including lemon and herb, salt and pepper, and smoked glaze, and supply barramundi fry from 10mm to 100mm from our own hatchery. Packs run from 1kg bags and 6x1kg retail cases to 5kg, 10kg and 20kg bulk cartons, and we produce to customer specification for retail, foodservice and private-label programmes. Our own brand for international markets is Round Island.

Oceanpick takes charge of the entire cold chain, from hatchery and nursery through on-growing and harvest to delivery at peak freshness, so that every consignment is traceable back to the individual pen it was raised in. We operate to world-class standards alongside our European partners and use current-generation technology in our cage systems. Our operations are ASC certified and BAP 4-star certified, covering hatchery, farm, feed mill and processing, with BRC certified processing, HACCP compliance and ISO 14064-1. Fry carry disease-free certification issued by Sri Lankan Government veterinarians, and we ship worldwide with full export, packaging and customs and quarantine clearance documentation. The company received the Sri Lankan Presidential Environment and Export Award in 2025. By producing fish rather than taking it, we relieve pressure on the island's native wild stocks while offering buyers year-round supply from a single, known origin.