# Somali fishing companies: Hafun, SNFC, Al Siha and the Puntland fleets

> Somali fishing firms in facts: Hafun Fishing Company, the Somali National Fishing Company, Al Siha, Ardo, Badmaal and Sun Fishing, with founding years, boats, buyers and export markets.

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## The short version

Somali fishing companies run their own boats or buy the catch of small skiffs, keep it cold, process it, and sell it in Somali towns or abroad. Several of the firms below were financed through Shuraako, a lending programme of the One Earth Future foundation, which publishes a profile of each ([Shuraako, clients](https://shuraako.org/wp-sitemap-posts-avada_portfolio-1.xml)).

## Hafun Fishing Company

The Hafun Fishing Company was set up in [Bosaso](/en/regions/bari/) in July 1992 and named after the port town of [Hafun](/en/history/ancient-port-of-opone-ras-hafun/), where it also had an office. It sold lobster, frozen fish, dried shark meat and shrimp, mainly to Yemen, the UAE and [Oman](/en/diaspora/oman/), with some sales to Kenya and Uganda, and had a property development arm in [Puntland](/en/states/puntland/) ([Wikipedia, Hafun Fishing Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafun_Fishing_Company)).

## Somali National Fishing Company (SNFC)

The Somali National Fishing Company was founded in 2002; Shuraako describes it as one of the largest fish exporters in the country. It has a processing centre and a shop with freezers for households ([Shuraako, SNFC](https://shuraako.org/clients/somali-national-fishing-company/)). In 2020 a $300,000 investment from the Nordic Horn of Africa Opportunities Fund paid to rebuild its factory and buy two 10.5-metre boats, land and cold-storage containers. Shuraako reported that its permanent staff rose from 30 to 50, plus about 50 seasonal workers, that it works with 21 fishing cooperatives running up to 30 boats each, and that it exports about 80% of its products ([Shuraako, 2025](https://shuraako.org/?p=2661)).

## Al Siha Enterprises

Al Siha was founded in Bosaso in 1997 as a bottled-water business and later added ice, laundry and fish. It has eight motor skiffs of its own, buys from more than 40 other skiffs, and has a 225-tonne cold store and four refrigerated vehicles. It sells frozen fish to supermarkets, restaurants and market traders at home, and through agents in Djibouti, Yemen and Egypt abroad ([Shuraako, Al Siha](https://shuraako.org/clients/al-siha/)).

## Other firms

- **Ardo Fishing Company** began in 1997 as a small shop reselling fish and lobster, bought its first boat in 2001, and by 2022 had 2 large and 6 small boats, 20 permanent and 29 temporary staff ([Shuraako, Ardo Fishing](https://shuraako.org/clients/ardo-fishing/)).
- **Badmaal Fishing Company** started in Allula in 2012 with one small boat catching 70 to 100 kg a day, and from 2014 sold in Bosaso and abroad ([Shuraako, Badmaal Fishing](https://shuraako.org/clients/badmaal-fishing/)).
- **Sun Fishing** is based in Berbera with a branch in Hargeisa ([Shuraako, Sun Fishing](https://shuraako.org/clients/sun-fishing/)).
- The Sea-Ex seafood trade directory lists Somali exporters including Agfish, which it says had 20 years of experience and more than 50 staff ([Sea-Ex, Somalia](https://www.sea-ex.com/countryinfo/somalia.htm)).

## Related

- [Somali farming, livestock and fishing companies: directory](/en/businesses/farming-livestock-and-fishing-directory/)
- [Fishing and the sea](/en/economy/fishing-and-the-sea/)
- [Somalia's exclusive economic zone](/en/economy/somalias-exclusive-economic-zone/)
- [Ships hijacked off Somalia](/en/economy/ships-hijacked-off-somalia/)

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