Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company

Fishing has always been part of the Maldivian lifestyle. It's the primary source of income for island communities. The small scale fishing practices feeds the family, then the community, and then exports the excess which personifies sustainable fisheries in the Maldives.

In 1977, the Government of Maldives, with a Japanese investment set up a cannery at Lhaviyani Atoll. Felivaru, adding commercial value to the daily catch. This began the first industrial scale value addition process in the Maldives fishing industry. To this day, canned tuna is popularly known as Felivaru Masdhalhu.

The company was a subsidiary of the State Trading Organization (STO), before President Mohamed Muizzu declared the company as a 100% state owned company.

Canned tuna

MIFCO's canned tuna is specified as Premium, Fancy, Standard, and local packs that include sauce tuna, and caterers pack. Canned products are manufactured from cooked tuna fish, which is skinned, headed, eviscerated, trimmed of all blood meat, scorched and packed with a covering of oil or brine in hermetically sealed can and sterilized to achieve commercial sterility by application of heat.

Frozen tuna

The fish is treated by Blast or brine freezing method.

The frozen species are Katsuwonus Pelamis “Skipjack” and Thunnus Albacares “Yellowfin” tuna.

Fish meal

Fishmeal, a fertilizer as well as an essential ingredient in poultry, and fish feed, this is by product of the cannery. To reduce amount of waste exhausted from fish products, fish meal is produced from the waste fish from the cannery.