Kivu Choice is the sister company of Victory Farms, the largest aquaculture platform in East Africa, based in Kenya.
Kivu Choice
The Rwanda-based aquaculture company Kivu Choice has hired Dean Trethewey as its new Director of Farming. He has more than 30 years of experience in the international salmon sector and has held key roles at major companies like Mowi, Grieg Seafood, and Akvafuture AS.
His involvement in large-scale operations within the salmon industry makes him the ideal candidate to oversee Kivu Choice’s tilapia farming operations at a globally leading scale and to help strengthen food security in Rwanda and the surrounding region, the aquaculture company stated.
"I'm honoured to join Kivu Choice here in Rwanda as Director of Farming and contribute to advancing sustainable aquaculture in East Africa.
It’s inspiring to see how much talent and dedication there is around the world—people working every day to grow food and strengthen food security for their communities. I’m grateful for the warm welcome and excited to be part of a team that’s building something truly meaningful," Trethewey posted on LinkedIn.
Kivu Choice is a vertically integrated aquaculture company based in Rwanda with associated feed mills, hatchery, cage production, distribution, and sales outlets. Founded in late 2021, and now producing over 500 thousand fish meals a month, it is Africa's fastest-growing fish farm and the largest protein producer in Rwanda.
Its mission is to democratize access to animal protein by radically increasing affordability and supply across the region. It owns one of the largest hatcheries in Africa with a current fingerling (baby fish) production capacity of over 5 million pieces a month.
In 2024, Kivu Choice took the title of fastest-growing fish farm in Africa. The company’s growth was catalysed by their rehabilitation of Kigembe Fish Farm, a 70-year-old government asset, where they increased production by 70 times in two and a half years.