Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has acquired Atlantic Aqua Farms from San Francisco-based Encore Consumer Capital. The purchase marks OTPP’s first venture into aquaculture, and the buy falls under its natural resources mandate.

PEI-based Atlantic Aqua Farms has been supplying North American consumers with its Canadian Cove brand mussels for more than 25 years.

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