Upstream: safe, productive fishing
HACCP-compliant fiberglass vessels, skilled crews, modern fishing gear, and disciplined onboard handling and preservation improve safety, catch quality, and consistency.
Fishing & enterprise model
From skills to ownership.
Sommarine · Kismayo
Kaalmays Marine Institute (KAALMI), a Sommarine subsidiary, connects practical training, productive work, performance-linked income, enterprise development, and a pathway to vessel ownership.
Integrated fisheries value chain
One system, from vessel to market.
Sommarine connects fishing capacity with the infrastructure, controls, and market access required to protect seafood quality and grow reliable supply.
Downstream: quality, cold chain, and markets
Hygienic handling, processing and value addition are connected to chilling and freezing, cold storage, quality assurance and traceability, refrigerated logistics, distribution, and market access.
KAALMI
A skilled workforce is the foundation of a sustainable industry.
Training combines safety at sea, vessel operations, fishing gear, catch handling, food hygiene, basic maintenance, teamwork, and commercial discipline.
Practical training
Sea-time experience
Enterprise pathway
Guaranteed market
Every catch has a reliable route to market.
Across all three models, Sommarine purchases the entire catch at prevailing market prices. Under leasing and lease-to-own, agreed payments are made through a portion of the catch rather than cash.
Three-stage pathway
Performance that builds independence.
01
Performance-based profit sharing
KAALMI-trained crews receive 50% of the profits generated by their vessel, directly linking earnings to productivity.
02
Boat leasing
Experienced, high-performing teams can lease Sommarine vessels and build independent fishing enterprises.
03
Lease-to-own
Successful lessees can progress toward vessel ownership without conventional collateral requirements.
Women’s economic participation
Practical participation across the seafood chain.
Sommarine trains women in fish handling, hygiene, and basic bookkeeping, and provides insulated fish boxes, daily flake ice, and subsidised fish without upfront payment—supporting participation in trading, value addition, and distribution.
Training & mentoring
Accessible supply
Enterprise & income