Why it is on record
Representative of the post-2015 indigenous Nigerian seafood-supply start-up cohort — small Lagos-based suppliers of fresh prawns, crab, lobster and fish into the domestic retail and HORECA channel, and on a smaller scale into the diaspora export market.
Headquarters
Lagos, Nigeria.
Key dates
- 2018Incorporated in Lagos as a fresh-seafood supplier to the domestic retail and restaurant market.
Deep dive
Prawnshack is recorded here as a representative of the second-generation Nigerian indigenous seafood enterprise — small, founder-led, Lagos-based operations that have emerged since the mid-2010s to supply fresh prawn, crab, lobster and fish into the restaurant, hotel and high-end retail channels, and on a smaller scale into the diaspora export market. The cohort sits below Atlantic Shrimpers in scale but above the artisanal market in formality, and is the most visible Nigerian-owned commercial footprint in the seafood value chain.