FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
−Removed: Blue Star Foods Corp.
−Removed: Index to Audited
−Removed: Financial Statements
+Added: Star Foods Corp.
+Added: to Audited Financial Statements
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID No.
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OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
−Removed: To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of
−Removed: Blue Star Foods Corp.
−Removed: Opinion on the Financial Statements
−Removed: We have audited the accompanying consolidated
−Removed: balance sheets of Blue Star Foods Corp.
−Removed: and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) as of December 31, 2021 and 2020,
−Removed: and the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, changes in stockholders’ equity (deficit), and cash
−Removed: flows for the years then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”).
−Removed: In our opinion,
−Removed: the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2021 and
−Removed: 2020, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally
−Removed: accepted in the United States of America.
−Removed: Going Concern Matter
−Removed: The accompanying financial statements have been
−Removed: prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.
−Removed: As discussed in Note 3 to the financial statements, the Company
−Removed: has suffered recurring losses from operations and has a net capital deficiency that raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue
−Removed: as a going concern.
−Removed: Management’s plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 3.
−Removed: The financial statements do not
−Removed: include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
−Removed: Basis for Opinion
−Removed: These financial statements are the responsibility
−Removed: of the Company’s management.
−Removed: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our
−Removed: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”)
−Removed: and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
−Removed: federal securities laws and the applicable
−Removed: rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
−Removed: We conducted our audits in accordance with the
−Removed: standards of the PCAOB.
−Removed: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial
−Removed: statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
−Removed: The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged
−Removed: to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding
−Removed: of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s
−Removed: internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: the Shareholders and Board of Directors of
+Added: Star Foods Corp.
+Added: on the Financial Statements
+Added: have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Blue Star Foods Corp.
+Added: and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”)
+Added: as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, and the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, changes in stockholders’
+Added: equity (deficit), and cash flows for the years then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”).
+Added: In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December
+Added: 31, 2022 and 2021, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles
+Added: generally accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: Concern Matter
+Added: accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern.
+Added: As discussed in Note
+Added: 3 to the financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring losses from operations and has a net capital deficiency that raises
+Added: substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: Management’s plans in regard to these matters are also described
+Added: The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management.
+Added: Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s
+Added: financial statements based on our audits.
+Added: We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
+Added: (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S.
+Added: securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
+Added: conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
+Added: Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
+Added: reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
+Added: is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: As part of our audits
+Added: we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion
+Added: on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
−Removed: Our audits included performing procedures to assess
−Removed: the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond
−Removed: to those risks.
−Removed: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial
−Removed: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well
−Removed: as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
−Removed: We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
−Removed: /s/ MaloneBailey,
+Added: audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error
+Added: or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks.
+Added: Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding
+Added: the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.
+Added: Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant
+Added: estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
+Added: We believe that our audits
+Added: provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: MaloneBailey, LLP
www.malonebailey.com
−Removed: We have served as the Company’s auditor since
−Removed: Houston, Texas
−Removed: March 31, 2022
−Removed: Star Foods Corp.
−Removed: BALANCE SHEETS
+Added: have served as the Company’s auditor since 2014.
+Added: Blue Star Foods Corp.
+Added: CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
DECEMBER 31, 2022
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Cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Restricted cash
Accounts receivable, net
Inventory, net
−Removed: Advances to related party
+Added: Advances to related parties
Other current assets
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Total Intangible Assets
−Removed: LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)
+Added: ADVANCES TO RELATED PARTY
+Added: LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
CURRENT LIABILITIES
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Deferred income
+Added: Current maturities of long-term debt, net of discounts
Current maturities of lease liabilities
Current maturities of related party long-term notes
−Removed: Related party notes payable
Related party notes payable - subordinated
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LONG-TERM LIABILITIES
−Removed: Long-term lease liability
−Removed: Long-term debt
−Removed: Related party long-term notes
+Added: Lease liability, net of current portion
+Added: Debt, net of current portion and discounts
+Added: Related party notes, net of current portion
TOTAL LIABILITIES
−Removed: STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)
+Added: STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Series A 8 % cumulative convertible preferred stock, $ 0.0001 par value;
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( 16,144,151 )
−Removed: TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)
+Added: TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS’ (DEFICIT) EQUITY
+Added: ( 1,245,723 )
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
−Removed: accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
−Removed: Star Foods Corp.
−Removed: STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
−Removed: ENDED DECEMBER 31,
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these audited consolidated financial statements
+Added: Blue Star Foods Corp.
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
+Added: Year Ended December 31
COST OF REVENUE
+Added: GROSS (LOSS) PROFIT
SALARIES AND WAGES
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( 2,783,641 )
−Removed: FORBEARANCE FEE EXPENSE (NON-CASH)
−Removed: ( 2,655,292 )
+Added: LOSS ON CONVERSION OF DEBT
INTEREST EXPENSE
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( 13,194,969 )
−Removed: NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO NON-CONTROLLING INTEREST
−Removed: NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO BLUE STAR FOODS CORP.
( 2,605,374 )
−Removed: $ ( 4,445,011 )
DIVIDEND ON PREFERRED STOCK
−Removed: NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO BLUE STAR FOODS CORP.
−Removed: COMMON STOCKHOLDERS
+Added: NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO COMMON STOCKHOLDERS
$ ( 13,194,969 )
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CHANGE IN FOREIGN CURRENCY TRANSLATION ADJUSTMENT
−Removed: TRANSLATION ADJUSTMENT ATTRIBUTABLE TO NON-CONTROLLING INTEREST
−Removed: COMPREHENSIVE (LOSS) INCOME
+Added: COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
COMPREHENSIVE LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO BLUE STAR FOODS CORP.
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Weighted average common shares outstanding - basic and diluted
−Removed: accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
−Removed: Star Foods Corp.
−Removed: STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)
−Removed: ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2021
−Removed: A Preferred Stock $.0001 par value
−Removed: Stock $.0001 par value
−Removed: Other Comprehensive
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these audited consolidated financial statements
Blue Star Foods Corp.
−Removed: Stockholder’s
−Removed: Non-Controlling
−Removed: Stockholder’s
−Removed: based compensation
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
+Added: YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2022
+Added: Series A Preferred Stock $.0001 par value
+Added: Common Stock $.0001 par value
+Added: Additional Paid-in
+Added: Accumulated Other Comprehensive
+Added: Total Stockholder’s Equity
+Added: December 31, 2020
+Added: ( 13,510,517 )
+Added: Stock based compensation
Common stock issued to settle related party interest
−Removed: Common stock issued to settle related party interest, shares
−Removed: stock issued for cash
−Removed: stock issued for service
−Removed: stock issued to related party lender for forbearance
−Removed: stock issued to settle related party notes
−Removed: stock issued for Taste of BC acquisition held in escrow
−Removed: stock issued for Taste of BC acquisition held in escrow, shares
−Removed: stock issued for Taste of BC Acquisition
−Removed: stock issued for Taste of BC Acquisition, shares
−Removed: A preferred 8% dividend issued in common stock
−Removed: Stock conversion to Common Stock
−Removed: Stock conversion to Common Stock, shares
−Removed: stock issued from exercise of warrants
−Removed: stock issued from exercise of warrants, shares
−Removed: Deconsolidation
−Removed: of Strike the Gold Foods, Ltd.
−Removed: Comprehensive
−Removed: balance, value
−Removed: based compensation
−Removed: stock issued to settle related party interest
−Removed: stock issued for cash
−Removed: stock issued for service
−Removed: stock issued for TOBC acquisition held in escrow
−Removed: stock issued for TOBC Acquisition
−Removed: A preferred 8% dividend issued in common stock
−Removed: Stock conversion to Common Stock
−Removed: stock issued from exercise of warrants
−Removed: Comprehensive
−Removed: balance, value
−Removed: accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
−Removed: Star Foods Corp.
−Removed: STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
−Removed: ENDED DECEMBER 31,
+Added: Common stock issued for cash
+Added: Common stock issued for service
+Added: Common stock issued for Taste of BC acquisition held in escrow
+Added: Common stock issued for Taste of BC Acquisition
+Added: Series A preferred 8% dividend issued in common stock
+Added: Preferred Stock conversion to Common Stock
+Added: Common stock issued from exercise of warrants
+Added: ( 2,605,374 )
+Added: ( 2,605,374 )
+Added: Comprehensive loss
+Added: December 31, 2021
+Added: ( 16,144,151 )
+Added: Stock based compensation
+Added: Warrants issued on long-term debt
+Added: Common stock issued for service
+Added: Common stock issued for asset acquisition
+Added: Common stock issued from exercise of warrants
+Added: Common stock issued for note payment
+Added: Common stock issued to settle related party notes payable and accrued interest
+Added: ( 13,194,969 )
+Added: ( 13,194,969 )
+Added: Cumulative translation adjustment
+Added: December 31, 2022
+Added: ( 29,339,120 )
+Added: ( 1,245,723 )
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these audited consolidated financial statements
+Added: Blue Star Foods Corp.
+Added: CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
+Added: Year Ended December 31
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
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$ ( 2,605,374 )
−Removed: Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities:
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash (used in) operating activities:
Stock based compensation
Common stock issued for service
−Removed: Common stock issued for forbearance fee
+Added: PPP loan forgiveness
+Added: Impairment of goodwill
+Added: Impairment of intangible assets
+Added: Impairment of fixed assets
Depreciation of fixed assets
Amortization of intangible assets
−Removed: Amortization of loan costs
−Removed: Gain on PPP loan forgiveness
−Removed: Gain on termination of lease
−Removed: Gain on sale of equipment
−Removed: Impairment of intangible asset
+Added: Amortization of debt discounts
Lease expense
+Added: Write down of inventory
Bad debt expense
−Removed: Allowance for inventory obsolescence
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivables
+Added: ( 3,431,929 )
Advances to related parties
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( 3,512,928 )
−Removed: Lease liability
+Added: Right of use liability
Accounts payable and accruals
−Removed: ( 1,873,224 )
Deferred income
Other current liabilities
−Removed: Net Cash (Used in) Provided by Operating Activities
+Added: Net Cash (Used in) Operating Activities
( 3,618,811 )
+Added: ( 4,833,029 )
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
−Removed: Deconsolidation of variable interest entity
−Removed: Net cash paid for acquisition of TOBC
+Added: Net cash paid for acquisition
Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
Purchases of fixed assets
−Removed: Net Cash (Used in) Provided by Investing Activities
+Added: Net Cash (Used in) Investing Activities
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
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Proceeds from working capital line of credit
−Removed: Proceeds from HSBC loan
Proceeds from PPP loan
+Added: Proceeds from convertible debt
Repayments of working capital line of credit
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( 10,431,291 )
+Added: Principal payments of convertible debt
+Added: ( 1,118,888 )
Repayments of related party notes payable
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Principal payments of long-term debt
−Removed: Payments of loan costs
−Removed: Net Cash Provided by (Used in) Financing Activities
−Removed: ( 4,800,635 )
+Added: Payment of loan costs
+Added: Net Cash Provided by Financing Activities
Effect of Exchange Rate Changes on Cash
−Removed: NET INCREASE IN CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH
−Removed: CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH - BEGINNING OF PERIOD
−Removed: CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND RESTRICTED CASH - END OF PERIOD
−Removed: Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information
−Removed: Cash paid for interest
−Removed: SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF NON-CASH ACTIVITY
−Removed: Series A preferred 8 % dividend issued in common stock
+Added: NET (DECREASE) INCREASE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
+Added: ( 1,146,251 )
+Added: CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS – BEGINNING OF PERIOD
+Added: CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS – END OF PERIOD
+Added: SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE OF NON-CASH ACTIVITIES
+Added: Common stock issued to settle payable and accrued interest
Operating lease assets recognized in exchange for operating lease liabilities
−Removed: Shares issued for partial payment of accounts payable
−Removed: Shares issued for partial payment of notes payable - related party
+Added: Warrants issued for convertible debt
+Added: Common stock issued for asset acquisition
+Added: Common stock issued for partial settlement of note payable
+Added: Series A preferred 8% dividend issued in common stock
Preferred shares conversion to common stock
Common stock issued for interest payment
−Removed: Shares issued for acquisition
+Added: Common stock issued for acquisition
Related party notes recognized from business acquisition
−Removed: accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements
−Removed: Star Foods Corp .
−Removed: TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: 31, 2021 and 2020
+Added: Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information
+Added: Cash paid for interest
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these audited consolidated financial statements
+Added: NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: December 31, 2022 and 2021
Company Overview
−Removed: Star Foods Corp., a Delaware corporation (“we”, “our”, the “Company”), is an international sustainable
−Removed: marine protein company based in Miami, Florida that imports, packages and sells refrigerated pasteurized crab meat, and other premium
−Removed: seafood products.
−Removed: The Company’s main operating business, John Keeler & Co., Inc.
−Removed: (“Keeler & Co.”) was incorporated
−Removed: in the State of Florida in May 1995.
−Removed: The Company’s current source of revenue is importing blue and red swimming crab meat primarily
−Removed: from Indonesia, Philippines and China and distributing it in the United States and Canada under several brand names such as Blue Star,
−Removed: Oceanica, Pacifika, Crab & Go, First Choice, Good Stuff and Coastal Pride Fresh, and steelhead salmon produced under the brand name
−Removed: Little Cedar Farms for distribution in Canada.
−Removed: November 26, 2019, John Keeler & Co., Inc., a Florida corporation (the “Purchaser”), and wholly-owned direct subsidiary
−Removed: of the Company, entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization (the “Coastal Merger Agreement”) with Coastal
−Removed: Pride Company, Inc., a South Carolina corporation, Coastal Pride Seafood, LLC, a Florida limited liability company and newly-formed,
−Removed: wholly-owned subsidiary of the Purchaser (the “Acquisition Subsidiary” and, upon the effective date of the Merger, the “Surviving
−Removed: Company), and The Walter F.
−Removed: Irrevocable Trust dated 1/8/03 (the “Trust”), Walter F.
−Removed: Lubkin III (“Lubkin
−Removed: III”), Tracy Lubkin Greco (“Greco”) and John C.
−Removed: Lubkin (“Lubkin”), constituting all of the shareholders
−Removed: of Coastal Pride Company, Inc.
−Removed: immediately prior to the Coastal Merger (collectively, the “Sellers”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms
−Removed: of the Coastal Merger Agreement, Coastal Pride Company, Inc.
−Removed: merged with and into the Acquisition Subsidiary, with the Acquisition Subsidiary
−Removed: being the surviving company (the “Coastal Pride Merger”).
−Removed: Pride is a seafood company, based in Beaufort, South Carolina, that imports pasteurized and fresh crabmeat sourced primarily from Mexico
−Removed: and Latin America and sells premium branded label crabmeat throughout North America.
−Removed: April 27, 2021, the Company entered into a stock purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with TOBC, and Steve Atkinson
−Removed: and Janet Atkinson (the “Sellers”), the owners of all of the capital stock of TOBC (the “TOBC Shares”), pursuant
−Removed: to which the Company acquired all of the TOBC Shares from the Sellers for an aggregate purchase price of CAD$ 4,000,000 consisting of:
−Removed: (i) an aggregate of CAD$ 1,000,000 in cash (with each Seller receiving a pro rata amount based upon the total number of TOBC Shares held
−Removed: by such Seller);
−Removed: (ii) promissory notes in the aggregate principal amount of CAD$ 200,000 (the “Notes”) with the principal
−Removed: amount of each Seller’s Note based on such Seller’s pro rata portion of the TOBC Shares);
−Removed: and (iii) 987,741 shares of the
−Removed: Company’s common stock (representing CAD$ 2,800,000 of shares based on USD$ 2.30 per share) with each Seller receiving a pro rata
−Removed: portion of such shares based upon the total number of TOBC Shares held by such Seller.
−Removed: June 24, 2021, the Purchase Agreement was amended (the “Amendment”), to increase the Purchase Price to an aggregate of CAD$ 5,000,000
−Removed: and the acquisition closed.
−Removed: As a result of the acquisition, TOBC became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Amendment,
−Removed: on August 3, 2021, an aggregate of 344,957 shares of the Company’s common stock (representing CAD$ 1,000,000 of additional shares
−Removed: calculated at USD$ 2.30 per share) was put in escrow until the 24-month anniversary of the closing.
−Removed: If within 24 months of the closing
−Removed: TOBC has cumulative revenue of at least CAD$ 1,300,000 , the Sellers will receive all of the escrowed shares.
−Removed: If as of the 24-month anniversary
−Removed: of the closing, TOBC has cumulative revenue of less than CAD$ 1,300,000 , the Sellers will receive a prorated number of the escrowed shares
−Removed: based on the actual cumulative revenue of TOBC as of such date.
−Removed: is a land-based recirculating aquaculture systems salmon farming operation, based in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, which sells its
−Removed: steelhead salmon to distributors in Canada.
+Added: Blue Star Foods Corp., a Delaware corporation (“we”,
+Added: “our”, the “Company”), is an international sustainable marine protein company based in Miami, Florida that imports,
+Added: packages and sells refrigerated pasteurized crab meat, and other premium seafood products.
+Added: The Company’s main operating business,
+Added: John Keeler & Co., Inc.
+Added: (“Keeler & Co.”) was incorporated in the State of Florida in May 1995.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: current source of revenue is importing blue and red swimming crab meat primarily from Indonesia, Philippines and China and distributing
+Added: it in the United States and Canada under several brand names such as Blue Star, Oceanica, Pacifika, Crab & Go, First Choice, Good
+Added: Stuff and Coastal Pride Fresh, and steelhead salmon and rainbow trout fingerlings produced under the brand name Little Cedar Farms for
+Added: distribution in Canada.
+Added: On November 26, 2019, Keeler & Co.,
+Added: a wholly-owned direct subsidiary of the Company, entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization (the “Coastal Merger
+Added: Agreement”) with Coastal Pride Company, Inc., a South Carolina corporation, Coastal Pride Seafood, LLC, a Florida limited liability
+Added: company and newly-formed, wholly-owned subsidiary of the Purchaser (the “Acquisition Subsidiary” and, upon the effective date
+Added: of the Merger, the “Surviving Company” or “Coastal Pride”), and The Walter F.
+Added: Irrevocable Trust dated
+Added: 1/8/03 (the “Trust”), Walter F.
+Added: Lubkin III (“Lubkin III”), Tracy Lubkin Greco (“Greco”) and John C.
+Added: Lubkin (“Lubkin”), constituting all of the shareholders of Coastal Pride Company, Inc.
+Added: immediately prior to the Coastal Merger
+Added: (collectively, the “Sellers”).
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the Coastal Merger Agreement, Coastal Pride Company, Inc.
+Added: and into the Acquisition Subsidiary, with the Acquisition Subsidiary being the surviving company (the “Coastal Pride Merger”).
+Added: Coastal Pride is a seafood company, based
+Added: in Beaufort, South Carolina, that imports pasteurized and fresh crabmeat sourced primarily from Mexico and Latin America and sells premium
+Added: branded label crabmeat throughout North America.
+Added: On April 27, 2021, the Company entered into
+Added: a stock purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with TOBC, and Steve Atkinson and Janet Atkinson (the “Sellers”),
+Added: the owners of all of the capital stock of TOBC (the “TOBC Shares”), pursuant to which the Company acquired all of the TOBC
+Added: Shares from the Sellers for an aggregate purchase price of CAD$ 4,000,000 consisting of:
+Added: (i) an aggregate of CAD$ 1,000,000 in cash (with
+Added: each Seller receiving a pro rata amount based upon the total number of TOBC Shares held by such Seller);
+Added: (ii) promissory notes in the
+Added: aggregate principal amount of CAD$ 200,000 (the “Notes”) with the principal amount of each Seller’s Note based on such
+Added: Seller’s pro rata portion of the TOBC Shares);
+Added: and (iii) 987,741 shares of the Company’s common stock (representing CAD$ 2,800,000
+Added: of shares based on USD$ 2.30 per share) with each Seller receiving a pro rata portion of such shares based upon the total number of TOBC
+Added: Shares held by such Seller.
+Added: On June 24, 2021, the Purchase Agreement was amended
+Added: (the “Amendment”), to increase the Purchase Price to an aggregate of CAD$ 5,000,000 and the acquisition closed.
+Added: of the acquisition, TOBC became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
+Added: Pursuant to the Amendment, on August 3, 2021, an aggregate of
+Added: 344,957 shares of the Company’s common stock (representing CAD$ 1,000,000 of additional shares calculated at USD$ 2.30 per share)
+Added: was put in escrow until the 24-month anniversary of the closing.
+Added: If within 24 months of the closing TOBC has cumulative revenue of at
+Added: least CAD$ 1,300,000 , the Sellers will receive all of the escrowed shares.
+Added: If as of the 24-month anniversary of the closing, TOBC has cumulative
+Added: revenue of less than CAD$ 1,300,000 , the Sellers will receive a prorated number of the escrowed shares based on the actual cumulative revenue
+Added: of TOBC as of such date .
+Added: TOBC is a land-based recirculating aquaculture systems
+Added: salmon farming operation, based in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, which sells its steelhead salmon and rainbow trout fingerlings to
+Added: distributors in Canada.
+Added: On February 3, 2022, Coastal Pride entered into an
+Added: asset purchase agreement with Gault Seafood, LLC, a South Carolina limited liability company (“Gault Seafood”), and Robert
+Added: Gault II, President of Gault Seafood (“Gault”) pursuant to which Coastal Pride acquired all of the Seller’s right,
+Added: title and interest in and to assets relating to Gault Seafood’s soft-shell crab operations, including intellectual property, equipment,
+Added: vehicles and other assets used in connection with the soft-shell crab business.
+Added: Coastal Pride did not assume any liabilities in connection
+Added: with the acquisition.
+Added: The purchase price for the assets consisted of a cash payment in the amount of $ 359,250 and the issuance of 167,093
+Added: shares of common stock of the Company with a fair value of $ 359,250 .
+Added: Such shares are subject to a leak-out agreement pursuant to which
+Added: Gault Seafood may not sell or otherwise transfer the shares until February 3, 2023.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
−Removed: of Presentation
−Removed: accompanying financial statements of the Company were prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United
−Removed: States of America (“U.S.
−Removed: of Consolidation
−Removed: consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, John Keeler & Co, Inc.
−Removed: a wholly owned subsidiary, Coastal
−Removed: Pride Seafood, LLC (“Coastal Pride”), a wholly owned subsidiary of John Keeler & Co., Inc.
−Removed: and Taste of BC Aquafarms,
+Added: Basis of Presentation
+Added: The accompanying financial statements of the Company
+Added: were prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S.
+Added: Principles of Consolidation
+Added: The consolidated financial statements include the
+Added: accounts of the Company, Keeler & Co, Inc.
+Added: a wholly owned subsidiary, Coastal Pride Seafood, LLC (“Coastal Pride”), a
+Added: wholly owned subsidiary of Keeler & Co., Inc.
+Added: and Taste of BC Aquafarms, Inc.
(“TOBC”), a wholly owned subsidiary.
−Removed: All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
−Removed: and Other Intangible Assets
−Removed: and other intangible assets include the cost of the acquired business in excess of the fair value of the tangible net assets recorded
−Removed: in connection with an acquisition.
−Removed: Other intangible assets include customer relationships, non-compete agreements, and trademarks.
−Removed: Company reviews its indefinite-lived intangibles and goodwill for impairment annually or whenever events or circumstances indicate that
−Removed: the carrying amount of the asset exceeds its fair value and may not be recoverable.
−Removed: are recorded as impairment charges in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss, and a reduction
−Removed: of the asset’s carrying value in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets when they occur.
−Removed: In accordance with its policies,
−Removed: the Company performed an assessment of its indefinite-lived intangibles and goodwill and determined there was no impairment for the
−Removed: years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020.
−Removed: reviews long-lived assets, including finite-lived intangible assets, for indicators of impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances
−Removed: indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable.
−Removed: Cash flows expected to be generated by the related assets are estimated over
−Removed: the asset’s useful life on an undiscounted basis.
−Removed: If the evaluation indicates that the carrying value of the asset may not be recoverable,
−Removed: the potential impairment is measured using fair value.
−Removed: Impairment losses for assets to be disposed of, if any, are based on the estimated
−Removed: proceeds to be received, less costs of disposal.
−Removed: are recorded as impairment charges in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss, and a reduction
−Removed: of the asset’s carrying value in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets when they occur.
−Removed: In accordance with its policies,
−Removed: the Company performed an assessment of its finite-lived intangibles and recognized an impairment loss on customer relationships
−Removed: intangible asset of $ 374,300 for the year ended December 31, 2021.
−Removed: Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents
−Removed: Company maintains cash balances with financial institutions in excess of Federal Deposit Insurance Company (“FDIC”) insured
−Removed: The Company has not experienced any losses on such accounts and believes it does not have a significant exposure.
−Removed: Company considers all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
−Removed: As of December
−Removed: 31, 2021, the Company had no cash equivalents.
−Removed: Company considers any cash balance in the lender designated cash collateral account as restricted cash.
−Removed: All cash proceeds must be deposited
−Removed: into the cash collateral account, and will be cleared and applied to the line of credit.
−Removed: The Company has no access to this account, and
−Removed: the purpose of the funds is restricted to repayment of the line of credit.
−Removed: The following table provides a reconciliation of cash, cash
−Removed: equivalents and restricted cash reported within the consolidated balance sheets that sum to the total of the same such amounts in the
−Removed: consolidated statements of cash flows:
−Removed: Schedule Reconciliation of Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Restricted cash
−Removed: Total cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash shown in the cash flow statement
−Removed: receivable consist of unsecured obligations due from customers under normal trade terms, usually net 30 days.
−Removed: The Company grants credit
−Removed: to its customers based on the Company’s evaluation of a particular customer’s credit worthiness.
−Removed: for doubtful accounts are maintained for potential credit losses based on the age of the accounts receivable and the results of the Company’s
−Removed: periodic credit evaluations of its customers’ financial condition.
−Removed: Receivables are written off as uncollectible and deducted from
−Removed: the allowance for doubtful accounts after collection efforts have been deemed to be unsuccessful.
−Removed: Subsequent recoveries are netted against
−Removed: the provision for doubtful accounts expense.
−Removed: The Company generally does not charge interest on receivables.
−Removed: are net of estimated allowances for doubtful accounts and sales return, allowances and discounts.
−Removed: They are stated at estimated
−Removed: net realizable value.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021, and 2020, the Company recorded sales return, allowances, discounts and refund liability
−Removed: of approximately $ 66,000 and
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: allowance for bad debt recorded during the years ended December
+Added: intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
+Added: Goodwill and Other Intangible
+Added: Goodwill and other intangible assets include the cost
+Added: of the acquired business in excess of the fair value of the net assets recorded in connection with an acquisition.
+Added: Other intangible
+Added: assets include customer relationships, non-compete agreements, and trademarks.
+Added: The Company reviews its long-lived intangibles and
+Added: goodwill for impairment annually or whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the asset exceeds its fair value
+Added: and may not be recoverable.
+Added: Impairments are recorded as impairment charges
+Added: in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss, and a reduction of the asset’s carrying
+Added: value in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets when they occur.
+Added: In accordance with its policies, an annual impairment
+Added: analysis for goodwill was completed for Coastal Pride and TOBC due to the lower forecasted revenues and gross losses recognized for
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2022 as a result of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business, and the Company recognized an impairment
+Added: loss on goodwill of $ 1,244,309
+Added: related to Coastal Pride and TOBC for the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: impairment was recognized for the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: Long-lived Assets
+Added: Management reviews long-lived assets, including
+Added: finite-lived intangible assets, for indicators of impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying
+Added: value may not be recoverable.
+Added: Cash flows expected to be generated by the related assets are estimated over the asset’s useful
+Added: life on an undiscounted basis.
+Added: If the evaluation indicates that the carrying value of the asset may not be recoverable, the
+Added: potential impairment is measured using fair value.
+Added: Fair value estimates are completed using a discounted cash flow analysis.
+Added: Impairment losses for assets to be disposed of, if any, are based on the estimated proceeds to be received, less costs of
+Added: Impairments are recorded as impairment charges
+Added: in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss, and a reduction of the asset’s carrying
+Added: value in the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets when they occur.
+Added: In accordance with its policies, an annual impairment
+Added: analysis for long-lived assets was completed for Coastal Pride and TOBC due to the lower forecasted revenues and gross losses
+Added: recognized for the year ended December 31, 2022 as a result of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business, and the
+Added: Company recognized an impairment on customer relationships, trademarks and non-compete agreements of $ 1,595,677 ,
and $ 78,116 ,
−Removed: Substantially
−Removed: all of the Company’s inventory consists of packaged crab meat located at a public cold storage facility and merchandise in transit
−Removed: from suppliers.
−Removed: The Company also has eggs and fish in process inventory from TOBC.
−Removed: The cost of inventory is primarily determined using
−Removed: the specific identification method for crab meat.
+Added: respectively, and an impairment on fixed assets of $ 1,873,619
+Added: for the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: An impairment loss on customer relationships intangible asset of $ 374,300
+Added: was recognized for the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: and Cash Equivalents
+Added: The Company maintains cash balances with financial
+Added: institutions in excess of Federal Deposit Insurance Company (“FDIC”) insured limits.
+Added: The Company has not experienced any losses
+Added: on such accounts and believes it does not have a significant exposure.
+Added: The Company considers all highly liquid investments
+Added: with an original maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company had no cash equivalents.
+Added: The Company considers any cash balance in the lender
+Added: designated cash collateral account as restricted cash.
+Added: All cash proceeds must be deposited into the cash collateral account, and will
+Added: be cleared and applied to the line of credit.
+Added: The Company has no access to this account, and the purpose of the funds is restricted to
+Added: repayment of the line of credit.
+Added: Accounts Receivable
+Added: Accounts receivable consist of unsecured obligations
+Added: due from customers under normal trade terms, usually net 30 days.
+Added: The Company grants credit to its customers based on the Company’s
+Added: evaluation of a particular customer’s credit worthiness.
+Added: Allowances for doubtful accounts are maintained for
+Added: potential credit losses based on the age of the accounts receivable and the results of the Company’s periodic credit evaluations
+Added: of its customers’ financial condition.
+Added: Receivables are written off as uncollectible and deducted from the allowance for doubtful
+Added: accounts after collection efforts have been deemed to be unsuccessful.
+Added: Subsequent recoveries are netted against the provision for doubtful
+Added: accounts expense.
+Added: The Company generally does not charge interest on receivables.
+Added: Receivables are net of estimated allowances for doubtful
+Added: accounts and sales return, allowances and discounts.
+Added: They are stated at estimated net realizable value.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, and 2021,
+Added: the Company recorded sales return, allowances, discounts and refund liability of approximately $ 94,000 and $ 66,000 , respectively.
+Added: was no allowance for bad debt recorded during the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021.
+Added: Substantially all of the Company’s inventory
+Added: consists of packaged crab meat located at a public cold storage facility and merchandise in transit from suppliers.
+Added: The Company also has
+Added: eggs and fish in process inventory from TOBC.
+Added: The cost of inventory is primarily determined using the specific identification method for
Fish in process inventory is measured based on the estimated biomass of fish on hand.
−Removed: The Company has established a standard procedure to estimate the biomass of fish on hand using counting and sampling techniques.
−Removed: is valued at the lower of cost or net realizable value, cost being determined using the first-in, first-out method for crab meat and
−Removed: using various estimates and assumptions in regard to the calculation of the biomass, including expected yield, market value of the biomass,
−Removed: and estimated costs of completion.
−Removed: is purchased cost and freight shipping point and becomes the Company’s asset and liability upon leaving the suppliers’ warehouse.
−Removed: Company periodically reviews the value of items in inventory and records an allowance to reduce the carrying value of inventory to the
−Removed: lower of cost or net realizable value based on its assessment of market conditions, inventory turnover and current stock levels.
−Removed: write-downs are charged to cost of goods sold.
−Removed: Company’s inventory as of December 31 2021 and 2020 consists of:
+Added: The Company has established a standard
+Added: procedure to estimate the biomass of fish on hand using counting and sampling techniques.
+Added: Inventory is valued at the lower of cost or
+Added: net realizable value, cost being determined using the first-in, first-out method for crab meat and using various estimates and assumptions
+Added: in regard to the calculation of the biomass, including expected yield, market value of the biomass, and estimated costs of completion.
+Added: Merchandise is purchased cost and freight
+Added: shipping point and becomes the Company’s asset and liability upon leaving the suppliers’ warehouse.
+Added: The Company periodically reviews the value
+Added: of items in inventory and records an allowance to reduce the carrying value of inventory to the lower of cost or net realizable value
+Added: based on its assessment of market conditions, inventory turnover and current stock levels.
+Added: Inventory write-downs are charged to cost of
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company recorded an inventory adjustment to reduce the carrying value of inventory to the lower
+Added: of cost or net realizable value in the amount of $ 743,218 which was charged to cost of goods sold.
+Added: The Company’s inventory as of December
+Added: 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021 consists of:
+Added: December 31, 2022
+Added: December 31, 2021
Inventory purchased for resale
3 unchanged sentences
Inventory, net
−Removed: to Suppliers and Related Party
−Removed: the normal course of business, the Company may advance payments to its suppliers, including Bacolod, a related party.
−Removed: These advances
−Removed: are in the form of prepayments for products that will ship within a short window of time.
−Removed: In the event that it becomes necessary for
−Removed: the Company to return products or adjust for quality issues, the Company is issued a credit by the vendor in the normal course of business
−Removed: and these credits are also reflected against future shipments.
−Removed: of December 31, 2021, and December 31, 2020, the balance due from Bacolod for future shipments was approximately $ 1,300,000 .
−Removed: No new purchases
−Removed: have been made from Bacolod since November 2020.
−Removed: Cost of revenue related to inventories purchased from Bacolod represented approximately
−Removed: $ 0 and $ 1,280,000 of total cost of revenue for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
−Removed: assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and are being depreciated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful
−Removed: life of the asset as follows:
+Added: Advances to Suppliers and
+Added: Related Party
+Added: In the normal course of business, the Company may
+Added: advance payments to its suppliers, including Bacolod, a related party.
+Added: These advances are in the form of prepayments for products that
+Added: will ship within a short window of time.
+Added: In the event that it becomes necessary for the Company to return products or adjust for quality
+Added: issues, the Company is issued a credit by the vendor in the normal course of business and these credits are also reflected against future
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, and December 31, 2021, the
+Added: balance due from Bacolod for future shipments was approximately $ 1,300,000 .
+Added: No new purchases have been made from Bacolod since November
+Added: There was no cost of revenue related to inventories purchased from Bacolod recorded for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021.
+Added: Fixed assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation
+Added: and are being depreciated using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life of the asset as follows:
Schedule of Estimated Usefule Life of Assets
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Trade show booth
−Removed: RAS system is comprised of tanks, plumbing, pumps, controls, hatchery, tools and other equipment all working together for the TOBC facility.
−Removed: improvements are amortized using the straight-line method over the shorter of the expected life of the improvement or the remaining lease
−Removed: Company capitalizes expenditures for major improvements and additions and expenses those items which do not improve or extend the useful
−Removed: life of the fixed assets.
−Removed: Company reviews fixed assets for recoverability if events or changes in circumstances indicate the assets may be impaired.
−Removed: 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company believes the carrying values of its long-lived assets are recoverable and as such, the Company did not
−Removed: record any impairment.
−Removed: Comprehensive (loss) Income
−Removed: Company reports its comprehensive (loss) income in accordance with ASC 220, Comprehensive Income , which establishes standards
−Removed: for reporting and presenting comprehensive (loss) income and its components in a full set of financial statements.
−Removed: Other comprehensive
−Removed: (loss) income consists of net income (loss) and cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments.
−Removed: Currency Translation
−Removed: Company’s functional and reporting currency is the U.S.
−Removed: The assets and liabilities held by TOBC and the previous VIE from
−Removed: 2020 have a functional currency other than the U.S.
−Removed: The TOBC results and the 2020 VIE results were translated into U.S.
−Removed: at exchange rates in effect at the end of each reporting period.
−Removed: TOBC and the 2020 VIE’s revenue and expenses were translated into
+Added: The RAS system is comprised of tanks, plumbing, pumps,
+Added: controls, hatchery, tools and other equipment all working together for the TOBC facility.
+Added: Leasehold improvements are amortized using the straight-line
+Added: method over the shorter of the expected life of the improvement or the remaining lease term.
+Added: The Company capitalizes expenditures for major improvements
+Added: and additions and expenses those items which do not improve or extend the useful life of the fixed assets.
+Added: The Company reviews fixed assets for recoverability
+Added: if events or changes in circumstances indicate the assets may be impaired.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, an impairment was recorded
+Added: related to Coastal Pride and TOBC fixed assets of $ 1,873,619 .
+Added: Other Comprehensive (loss)
+Added: The Company reports its comprehensive (loss) income
+Added: in accordance with ASC 220, Comprehensive Income , which establishes standards for reporting and presenting comprehensive (loss)
+Added: income and its components in a full set of financial statements.
+Added: Other comprehensive (loss) income consists of net income (loss) and cumulative
+Added: foreign currency translation adjustments.
+Added: Foreign Currency Translation
+Added: The Company’s functional and reporting currency
+Added: The assets and liabilities held by TOBC have a functional currency other than the U.S.
+Added: The TOBC results were
+Added: translated into U.S.
+Added: Dollars at exchange rates in effect at the end of each reporting period.
+Added: TOBC’s revenue and expenses were translated
Dollars at the average rates that prevailed during the period.
−Removed: rate used in the financial statements as presented for December 31, 2021 for TOBC was 0.79 Canadian Dollars to U.S.
−Removed: for December 31, 2020 for the previous VIE was 1.260 U.S.
−Removed: Dollar to UK pound sterling .
−Removed: The resulting net translation gains and losses are reported as foreign currency translation adjustments in stockholders’ equity
−Removed: as a component of comprehensive (loss) income.
−Removed: The Company recorded foreign currency translation adjustment of approximately $ 54,200
−Removed: for the years ended December 31, 2021 and December
−Removed: 31, 2020, respectively.
−Removed: Company recognizes revenue in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, as
−Removed: such, we record revenue when our customer obtains control of the promised goods or services in an amount that reflects the consideration
−Removed: which the Company expects to receive in exchange for those goods or services.
−Removed: The Company’s source of revenue is from importing
−Removed: blue and red swimming crab meat primarily from Mexico, Indonesia, the Philippines and China and distributing it in the United States
−Removed: and Canada under several brand names such as Blue Star, Oceanica, Pacifika, Crab & Go, First Choice, Good Stuff and Coastal Pride
−Removed: Fresh and steelhead salmon produced by TOBC under the brand name Little Cedar Farms for distribution in Canada.
−Removed: We sell primarily to
−Removed: food service distributors.
−Removed: We also sell our products to wholesalers, retail establishments and seafood distributors.
−Removed: determine revenue recognition for the arrangements that the Company determines are within the scope of Topic 606, the Company performs
−Removed: the following five steps:
−Removed: (1) identify the contract(s) with a customer by receipt of purchase orders and confirmations sent by the Company
−Removed: which includes a required line of credit approval process, (2) identify the performance obligations in the contract which includes shipment
−Removed: of goods to the customer at FOB shipping point or destination, (3) determine the transaction price which initiates with the purchase
−Removed: order received from the customer and confirmation sent by the Company and will include discounts and allowances by customer if any, (4)
−Removed: allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract which is the shipment of the goods to the customer and
−Removed: transaction price determined in step 3 above and (5) recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation which
−Removed: is when the Company transfers control of the goods to the customers by shipment or delivery of the products.
−Removed: Company elected an accounting policy to treat shipping and handling activities as fulfillment activities.
−Removed: Consideration payable to a
−Removed: customer is recorded as a reduction of the arrangement’s transaction price, thereby reducing the amount of revenue recognized,
−Removed: unless the payment is for distinct goods or services received from the customer.
−Removed: Company recognizes deferred income for advance payments received from customers for which sales have not yet occurred.
−Removed: account for our leases under ASC 842, Leases , which requires all leases to be reported on the balance sheet as right-of-use assets
−Removed: and lease obligations.
−Removed: We elected the practical expedients permitted under the transition guidance that retained the lease classification
−Removed: and initial direct costs for any leases that existed prior to adoption of the standard.
−Removed: categorize leases with contractual terms longer than twelve months as either operating or finance.
−Removed: Finance leases are generally those
−Removed: leases that would allow us to substantially utilize or pay for the entire asset over its estimated life.
−Removed: Assets acquired under finance
−Removed: leases are recorded in property and equipment, net.
+Added: The rate used in the financial statements for TOBC as presented
+Added: for December 31, 2022 was 0.80 Canadian Dollars to U.S.
+Added: Dollars and for December 31, 2021 was 0.79 Canadian Dollars to U.S.
+Added: resulting net translation gains and losses are reported as foreign currency translation adjustments in stockholders’ equity as a
+Added: component of comprehensive (loss) income.
+Added: The Company recorded foreign currency translation adjustment of approximately $ 60,100 and $ 54,200
+Added: for the years ended December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively.
+Added: Revenue Recognition
+Added: The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with
+Added: Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, as such, we record revenue when our customer obtains
+Added: control of the promised goods or services in an amount that reflects the consideration which the Company expects to receive in exchange
+Added: for those goods or services.
+Added: The Company’s source of revenue is from importing blue and red swimming crab meat primarily from Mexico,
+Added: Indonesia, the Philippines and China and distributing it in the United States and Canada under several brand names such as Blue Star,
+Added: Oceanica, Pacifika, Crab & Go, First Choice, Good Stuff and Coastal Pride Fresh and steelhead salmon and rainbow trout fingerlings
+Added: produced by TOBC under the brand name Little Cedar Farms for distribution in Canada.
+Added: We sell primarily to food service distributors.
+Added: Company also sells its products to wholesalers, retail establishments and seafood distributors.
+Added: To determine revenue recognition for the arrangements
+Added: that the Company determines are within the scope of Topic 606, the Company performs the following five steps:
+Added: (1) identify the contract(s)
+Added: with a customer by receipt of purchase orders and confirmations sent by the Company which includes a required line of credit approval
+Added: process, (2) identify the performance obligations in the contract which includes shipment of goods to the customer at FOB shipping point
+Added: or destination, (3) determine the transaction price which initiates with the purchase order received from the customer and confirmation
+Added: sent by the Company and will include discounts and allowances by customer if any, (4) allocate the transaction price to the performance
+Added: obligations in the contract which is the shipment of the goods to the customer and transaction price determined in step 3 above and (5)
+Added: recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation which is when the Company transfers control of the goods
+Added: to the customers by shipment or delivery of the products.
+Added: The Company elected an accounting policy to treat
+Added: shipping and handling activities as fulfillment activities.
+Added: Consideration payable to a customer is recorded as a reduction of the arrangement’s
+Added: transaction price, thereby reducing the amount of revenue recognized, unless the payment is for distinct goods or services received from
+Added: the customer.
+Added: Deferred Income
+Added: The Company recognizes deferred income for advance
+Added: payments received from customers for which sales have not yet occurred.
+Added: The Company accounts for its leases under ASC 842,
+Added: Leases , which requires all leases to be reported on the balance sheet as right-of-use assets and lease obligations.
+Added: elected the practical expedients permitted under the transition guidance that retained the lease classification and initial direct costs
+Added: for any leases that existed prior to adoption of the standard.
+Added: The Company categorizes leases with contractual terms
+Added: longer than twelve months as either operating or finance.
+Added: Finance leases are generally those leases that would allow the Company to substantially
+Added: utilize or pay for the entire asset over its estimated life.
+Added: Assets acquired under finance leases are recorded in property and equipment,
All other leases are categorized as operating leases.
−Removed: We did not have any finance
−Removed: leases as of December 31, 2021.
−Removed: Our leases generally have terms that range from three years for equipment and six to seven years for
−Removed: real property.
−Removed: We elected the accounting policy to include both the lease and non-lease components of our agreements as a single component
−Removed: and account for them as a lease.
−Removed: liabilities are recognized at the present value of the fixed lease payments using a discount rate based on similarly secured borrowings
−Removed: available to us.
−Removed: Lease assets are recognized based on the initial present value of the fixed lease payments, reduced by landlord incentives,
−Removed: plus any direct costs from executing the leases.
−Removed: Lease assets are tested for impairment in the same manner as long-lived assets used
−Removed: in operations.
−Removed: Leasehold improvements are capitalized at cost and amortized over the lesser of their expected useful life or the lease
−Removed: we have the option to extend the lease term, terminate the lease before the contractual expiration date, or purchase the leased asset,
−Removed: and it is reasonably certain that we will exercise the option, we consider these options in determining the classification and measurement
−Removed: of the lease.
−Removed: Costs associated with operating lease assets are recognized on a straight-line basis within operating expenses over the
−Removed: term of the lease.
−Removed: table below presents the lease-related assets and liabilities recorded on the balance sheets.
+Added: The Company did not have any finance leases as of December 31, 2022.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: leases generally have terms that range from three years for equipment and six to seven years for real property.
+Added: The Company elected the
+Added: accounting policy to include both the lease and non-lease components of its agreements as a single component and accounts for them as
+Added: Lease liabilities are recognized at the present value
+Added: of the fixed lease payments using a discount rate based on similarly secured borrowings available to us.
+Added: Lease assets are recognized based
+Added: on the initial present value of the fixed lease payments, reduced by landlord incentives, plus any direct costs from executing the leases.
+Added: Lease assets are tested for impairment in the same manner as long-lived assets used in operations.
+Added: Leasehold improvements are capitalized
+Added: at cost and amortized over the lesser of their expected useful life or the lease term.
+Added: When the Company has the option to extend the lease
+Added: term, terminate the lease before the contractual expiration date, or purchase the leased asset, and it is reasonably certain that the
+Added: Company will exercise the option, it considers these options in determining the classification and measurement of the lease.
+Added: Costs associated
+Added: with operating lease assets are recognized on a straight-line basis within operating expenses over the term of the lease.
+Added: The table below presents the lease-related assets
+Added: and liabilities recorded on the balance sheets.
Schedule of Lease-related Assets and Liabilities
+Added: December 31, 2022
Operating lease assets
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Operating lease liabilities
−Removed: cash flow information related to leases were as follows:
+Added: Supplemental cash flow information related to leases
+Added: were as follows:
Schedule of Supplemental Cash Flow Information Related to Leases
−Removed: December 31, 2021
+Added: Year Ended December 31, 2022
Cash used in operating activities:
2 unchanged sentences
Operating leases
−Removed: table below presents the remaining lease term and discount rates for operating leases.
+Added: The table below presents the remaining lease term
+Added: and discount rates for operating leases.
Schedule of Remaining Lease Term and Discount Rates for Operating Leases
4 unchanged sentences
Operating leases
−Removed: of lease liabilities as of December 31, 2021, were as follows:
+Added: Maturities of lease liabilities as of December 31,
+Added: 2022, were as follows:
Schedule of Maturities of Lease Liabilities
5 unchanged sentences
Non-current obligations
−Removed: Company expenses the costs of advertising as incurred.
−Removed: Advertising expenses which are included in Other Operating Expenses were approximately
−Removed: $ 5,700 and 7,200 , for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
−Removed: preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”)
−Removed: requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent
−Removed: assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting
+Added: The Company expenses the costs of advertising as incurred.
+Added: Advertising expenses which are included in Other Operating Expenses were approximately $ 5,400 and $ 5,700 , for the years ended December
+Added: 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
+Added: Use of Estimates
+Added: The preparation of financial statements in conformity
+Added: GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure
+Added: of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during
+Added: the reporting period.
Actual results could differ from those estimates.
−Removed: Concentration
−Removed: Company had ten customers which accounted for approximately 52 %
+Added: Customer Concentration
+Added: The Company had nine customers which accounted for
+Added: approximately 59 %
of revenue during the year ended December 31, 2022.
−Removed: One customer accounted for 24 % of revenue during the year ended December 31, 2021.
−Removed: Outstanding receivables from these customers
−Removed: accounted for approximately 59 %
−Removed: of the total accounts receivable as of December 31, 2021.
−Removed: Company had three customers which accounted for approximately 26 % of revenue in the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: Outstanding receivables
−Removed: from these customers accounted for approximately 19 % of the total accounts receivable as of December 31, 2020.
−Removed: loss of any major customer could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s results of operations, cash flows and financial
+Added: One customer accounted for 36 %
+Added: of revenue during the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: The Company had ten customers which accounted for
+Added: approximately 52 % of revenue during the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: One customer accounted for 24 % of revenue during the year ended
+Added: December 31, 2021.
+Added: Outstanding receivables from these customers accounted for approximately 59 % of the total accounts receivable as of
+Added: December 31, 2021.
+Added: The loss of any major customer could have a material
+Added: adverse impact on the Company’s results of operations, cash flows and financial position.
+Added: Supplier Concentration
+Added: The Company had five major suppliers located in the United States, Indonesia, Vietnam and China and which accounted for approximately
+Added: 76 % of the Company’s total purchases during the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: The Company’s largest supplier is located in
+Added: Indonesia and accounted for 29 % of the Company’s total purchases in the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: The Company had four suppliers which accounted for
+Added: approximately 70 % of the Company’s total purchases during the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: These four suppliers are located in
+Added: the United States, Indonesia, Mexico and China, which accounted for approximately 80 % of the Company’s total purchases during the
+Added: During 2021, the Company purchased inventory from one non-affiliated Mexican supplier that made up the balance of 42 % of the supply
concentration.
−Removed: Company had four suppliers which accounted for approximately 70 % of the Company’s total purchases during the year ended December
−Removed: These four suppliers are located in the United States, Indonesia, Mexico and China, which accounted for approximately 80 % of
−Removed: the Company’s total purchases during the year.
−Removed: During 2021, the Company purchased inventory from one non-affiliated Mexican supplier
−Removed: that made up the balance of 42 % of the supply concentration.
−Removed: Company had five suppliers which accounted for approximately 65 % of the Company’s total purchases during the year ended December
−Removed: These five suppliers are located in the United States, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Mexico and the Philippines, which accounted for
−Removed: approximately 93 % of the Company’s total purchases during the year.
−Removed: During 2020, the Company purchased inventory from two non-affiliated
−Removed: Indonesian suppliers that made up the balance of 25 % of the supply concentration.
−Removed: loss of any major supplier could have a material adverse impact on the Company’s results of operations, cash flows and financial
−Removed: Value Measurements and Financial Instruments
−Removed: value is defined as the amount that would be received for selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction
−Removed: between market participants at the measurement date and is measured using inputs in one of the following three categories:
−Removed: 1 measurements are based on unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that we judgment.
−Removed: ability to access.
−Removed: Valuation of these items does not entail a significant amount of judgment.
−Removed: 2 measurements are based on quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar
−Removed: assets or liabilities in markets that are not active or market data other than quoted prices that are observable for the assets or liabilities.
−Removed: 3 measurements are based on unobservable data that are supported by little or no market activity and are significant to the fair value
−Removed: of the assets or liabilities.
−Removed: financial instruments include cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, accrued expenses, and debt obligations.
−Removed: We believe the carrying
−Removed: values of our financial instruments approximate their fair values because they are short term in nature or payable on demand.
−Removed: does not have any assets or liabilities that are required to be measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2021 and
−Removed: or Loss per Share
−Removed: Company accounts for earnings per share pursuant to ASC 260, Earnings per Share, which requires disclosure on the financial statements
−Removed: of “basic” and “diluted” earnings (loss) per share.
−Removed: Basic earnings (loss) per share are computed by dividing
−Removed: net income (loss) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the year.
−Removed: Diluted earnings (loss) per share is computed
−Removed: by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding plus common stock equivalents (if dilutive)
−Removed: related to stock options and warrants for each year.
−Removed: As further described in Note 9 - Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, as of December
−Removed: 31, 2021, 1,413 shares of preferred stock were converted into 706,500 shares of common stock.
−Removed: As further described in Notes 10 and 11
−Removed: – Options and Warrants, as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, 3,431,250 and 3,280,000 options may be exercised, respectively, and 1,538,500
−Removed: warrants are exercisable.
−Removed: there was a net loss for the years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, basic and diluted losses per share each year are the
−Removed: Company accounts for stock-based compensation in accordance with ASC 718, “Compensation-Stock Compensation”.
−Removed: ASC 718 requires
−Removed: companies to measure the cost of services received in exchange for an award of equity instruments, including stock options, based on
−Removed: the grant-date fair value of the award and to recognize it as compensation expense over the period the individual is required to provide
−Removed: service in exchange for the award, usually the vesting period.
−Removed: The Company has elected to adopt ASU 2016-09 and has a policy to account
−Removed: for forfeitures as they occur.
−Removed: Company accounts for related party transactions in accordance with ASC 850 (“Related Party Disclosures”).
−Removed: A party is considered
−Removed: to be related to the Company if the party directly or indirectly or through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or
−Removed: is under common control with the Company.
−Removed: Related parties also include principal owners of the Company, its management, members of the
−Removed: immediate families of principal owners of the Company and its management and other parties with which the Company may deal if one party
−Removed: controls or can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the other to an extent that one of the transacting parties
−Removed: might be prevented from fully pursuing its own separate interests.
−Removed: A party which can significantly influence the management or operating
−Removed: policies of the transacting parties or if it has an ownership interest in one of the transacting parties and can significantly influence
−Removed: the other to an extent that one or more of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing its own separate interests
−Removed: is also a related party.
−Removed: of December 31, 2021, and 2020, there was approximately $ 143,300
+Added: The loss of any major supplier could have a material
+Added: adverse impact on the Company’s results of operations, cash flows and financial position.
+Added: Fair Value Measurements and
+Added: Financial Instruments
+Added: Fair value is defined as the amount that would be
+Added: received for selling an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement
+Added: date and is measured using inputs in one of the following three categories:
+Added: Level 1 measurements are based on unadjusted quoted
+Added: prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that we have the ability to access.
+Added: Valuation of these items does not entail
+Added: a significant amount of judgment.
+Added: Level 2 measurements are based on quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets,
+Added: quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active or market data other than quoted prices that
+Added: are observable for the assets or liabilities.
+Added: Level 3 measurements are based on unobservable data
+Added: that are supported by little or no market activity and are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.
+Added: The Company’s financial instruments include cash, accounts
+Added: receivable, accounts payable, accrued expenses, and debt obligations.
+Added: The Company believes the carrying values of cash, accounts receivable,
+Added: accounts payable and accrued expenses approximate their fair values because they are short term in nature or payable on demand.
+Added: carrying value of long-term debt approximates fair value since the related rates of interest approximate current
+Added: market rates.
+Added: Company does not have any assets or liabilities that are required to be measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of December
31, 2022 and 2021.
−Removed: in interest paid to related parties notes payable.
+Added: Earnings or Loss per Share
+Added: The Company accounts for earnings per share pursuant
+Added: to ASC 260, Earnings per Share, which requires disclosure on the financial statements of “basic” and “diluted”
+Added: earnings (loss) per share.
+Added: Basic earnings (loss) per share are computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average number of
+Added: common shares outstanding for the year.
+Added: Diluted earnings (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) by the weighted average
+Added: number of common shares outstanding plus common stock equivalents (if dilutive) related to stock options and warrants for each year.
+Added: further described in Note 9 - Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, as of December 31, 2021, 1,413 shares of preferred stock were converted
+Added: into 706,500 shares of common stock.
+Added: As further described in Notes 10 and 11 – Options and Warrants, as of December 31, 2022 and
+Added: 2021, 4,121,633 and 3,431,250 options may be exercised, respectively, and 2,413,500 and 1,538,500 warrants are exercisable, respectively.
+Added: As there was a net loss for the years ended December
+Added: 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, basic and diluted losses per share each year are the same.
+Added: Stock-Based Compensation
+Added: The Company accounts for stock-based compensation
+Added: in accordance with ASC 718, “Compensation-Stock Compensation”.
+Added: ASC 718 requires companies to measure the cost of services
+Added: received in exchange for an award of equity instruments, including stock options, based on the grant-date fair value of the award and
+Added: to recognize it as compensation expense over the period the individual is required to provide service in exchange for the award, usually
+Added: the vesting period.
+Added: The Company accounts for forfeitures as they occur.
+Added: Related Parties
+Added: The Company accounts for related party transactions
+Added: in accordance with ASC 850 (“Related Party Disclosures”).
+Added: A party is considered to be related to the Company if the party
+Added: directly or indirectly or through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Company.
+Added: Related parties also include principal owners of the Company, its management, members of the immediate families of principal owners of
+Added: the Company and its management and other parties with which the Company may deal if one party controls or can significantly influence
+Added: the management or operating policies of the other to an extent that one of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing
+Added: its own separate interests.
+Added: A party which can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the transacting parties
+Added: or if it has an ownership interest in one of the transacting parties and can significantly influence the other to an extent that one or
+Added: more of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing its own separate interests is also a related party.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, and 2021, there was approximately
+Added: $ 67,000 and $ 143,300 in interest paid to related parties notes payable.
See Note 7 Debt for further information.
−Removed: Company accounts for income taxes utilizing the liability method, where deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the
−Removed: expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial and income
−Removed: tax reporting purposes, using enacted statutory tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse.
−Removed: effects of future changes in tax laws or rates are not included in the measurement.
−Removed: Income tax expense is the total of the current year
−Removed: income tax due and the change in deferred tax assets and liabilities.
−Removed: Deferred tax assets and liabilities are the expected future tax
−Removed: amounts for the temporary differences between carrying amounts and tax bases of assets and liabilities, computed using enacted tax rates.
−Removed: A valuation allowance, if needed, reduces deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.
−Removed: As changes in tax laws or rates
−Removed: are enacted, deferred tax assets and liabilities are adjusted through the provision for income taxes.
−Removed: tax position is recognized as a benefit only if it is “more likely than not” that the tax position would be sustained in
−Removed: a tax examination, with a tax examination being presumed to occur.
−Removed: The amount recognized is the largest amount of tax benefit that is
−Removed: greater than 50% likely of being realized on examination.
−Removed: For tax positions not meeting the “more likely than not” test,
−Removed: no tax benefit is recorded.
−Removed: Company’s policy is to recognize interest and penalties on uncertain tax positions in “Income tax expense” in the Consolidated
−Removed: Statements of Operations.
−Removed: There were no amounts related to interest and penalties recognized for the years ended December 31, 2021 or
−Removed: Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
−Removed: 2019-12 Income Taxes (Topic 740)
−Removed: December 2019, the FASB issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740):
−Removed: Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes (“ASU 2019-12”),
−Removed: which is intended to simplify various aspects related to accounting for income taxes.
−Removed: ASU 2019-12 removes certain exceptions to the general
−Removed: principles in Topic 740 and also clarifies and amends existing guidance to improve consistent application.
−Removed: This guidance is effective
−Removed: for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2020, with early adoption permitted.
−Removed: Company determined that the standard has no impact on its consolidated financial statements and related disclosures.
−Removed: 2016-13 Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326)
−Removed: June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No.
+Added: The Company accounts for income taxes utilizing the
+Added: liability method, where deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the expected future tax consequences of temporary
+Added: differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial and income tax reporting purposes, using enacted statutory
+Added: tax rates in effect for the year in which the differences are expected to reverse.
+Added: The effects of future changes in tax laws or rates
+Added: are not included in the measurement.
+Added: Income tax expense is the total of the current year income tax due and the change in deferred tax
+Added: assets and liabilities.
+Added: Deferred tax assets and liabilities are the expected future tax amounts for the temporary differences between
+Added: carrying amounts and tax bases of assets and liabilities, computed using enacted tax rates.
+Added: A valuation allowance, if needed, reduces
+Added: deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.
+Added: As changes in tax laws or rates are enacted, deferred tax assets and liabilities
+Added: are adjusted through the provision for income taxes.
+Added: A tax position is recognized as a benefit only if
+Added: it is “more likely than not” that the tax position would be sustained in a tax examination, with a tax examination being presumed
+Added: The amount recognized is the largest amount of tax benefit that is greater than 50% likely of being realized on examination.
+Added: For tax positions not meeting the “more likely than not” test, no tax benefit is recorded.
+Added: The Company’s policy is to recognize interest
+Added: and penalties on uncertain tax positions in “Income tax expense” in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
+Added: no amounts related to interest and penalties recognized for the years ended December 31, 2022 or 2021.
+Added: Recent Accounting Pronouncements
+Added: 2020-06, Debt—Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging—Contracts in Entity’s
+Added: Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40).
+Added: August 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-06, Debt—Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging—Contracts
+Added: in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40).
+Added: The ASU simplifies the accounting for certain financial instruments with characteristics
+Added: of liabilities and equity.
+Added: The FASB reduced the number of accounting models for convertible debt and convertible preferred stock instruments
+Added: and made certain disclosure amendments to improve the information provided to users.
+Added: In addition, the FASB amended the derivative guidance
+Added: for the “own stock” scope exception and certain aspects of the EPS guidance.
+Added: The guidance is effective for smaller reporting
+Added: companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, including interim periods within those fiscal years.
+Added: Early adoption is
+Added: permitted, but no earlier than fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020, including interim periods within those fiscal years.
+Added: Company adopted the ASU effective January 1, 2022 and applied the provisions of the ASU to the convertible note issued during the
+Added: year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: 2016-13 Financ ial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326)
+Added: In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU No.
Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326):
−Removed: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial
−Removed: Instruments, which requires entities to use a forward-looking, expected loss model to estimate credit losses.
−Removed: It also requires entities
−Removed: to consider additional disclosures related to credit quality of trade and other receivables, including information related to management’s
−Removed: estimate of credit allowances.
−Removed: ASU 2016-13 was further amended in November 2018 by ASU 2018-19, Codification Improvements to Topic 236,
−Removed: Financial Instrument-Credit Losses.
−Removed: For public business entities that are U.S.
−Removed: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filers excluding
−Removed: smaller reporting companies, the amendments are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods
+Added: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, which requires entities to
+Added: use a forward-looking, expected loss model to estimate credit losses.
+Added: It also requires entities to consider additional disclosures
+Added: related to credit quality of trade and other receivables, including information related to management’s estimate of credit
+Added: ASU 2016-13 was further amended in November 2018 by ASU 2018-19, Codification Improvements to Topic 236, Financial
+Added: Instrument-Credit Losses.
+Added: For public business entities that are Securities and Exchange Commission filers excluding smaller
+Added: reporting companies, the amendments are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods
within those fiscal years.
−Removed: For all other public business entities, the amendments are effective for fiscal years beginning after December
−Removed: 15, 2020, including interim periods within those fiscal years.
−Removed: On October 16, 2019, FASB voted to delay implementation of ASU No.
−Removed: “Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326) - Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments.” For all other
−Removed: entities, the amendments are now effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, and interim periods within fiscal years
−Removed: beginning after December 15, 2022.
−Removed: On November 15, 2019, FASB issued an Accounting Standard Update No.
−Removed: 2019-10 to amend the implementation
−Removed: date to fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2022, including interim periods within those fiscal years.
−Removed: Early adoption is permitted
−Removed: for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2018.
−Removed: The Company continues to evaluate
−Removed: the impact of these amendments to the Company’s financial position and results of operations and currently expect no material impact
−Removed: of the adoption of the amendments on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
+Added: For all other public business entities, the amendments are effective for fiscal years beginning after
+Added: December 15, 2020, including interim periods within those fiscal years.
+Added: On October 16, 2019, FASB voted to delay implementation of
+Added: 2016-13, “Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326) - Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial
+Added: Instruments.” For all other entities, the amendments are now effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, and
+Added: interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022.
+Added: On November 15, 2019, FASB issued an Accounting Standard
+Added: 2019-10 to amend the implementation date to fiscal year beginning after December 15, 2022, including interim periods
+Added: within those fiscal years.
+Added: Early adoption is permitted for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning
+Added: after December 15, 2018.
+Added: As this ASU became effective on January 1, 2023, the Company continues to evaluate the impact
+Added: of these amendments to the Company’s financial position and results of operations and currently expects no material impact of
+Added: the adoption of the amendments on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
Going Concern
−Removed: accompanying consolidated financial statements and notes have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern.
−Removed: Company incurred a net loss of $ 2,605,374 ,
−Removed: has an accumulated deficit of $ 16,144,151
−Removed: and working capital surplus of $ 2,831,718 ,
−Removed: inclusive of $ 960,000
−Removed: in subordinated stockholder debt.
−Removed: These circumstances
−Removed: raise substantial doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The Company’s ability to continue as
−Removed: a going concern is dependent upon the Company’s ability to increase revenues, execute on its business plan to acquire complimentary
−Removed: companies, raise capital, and to continue to sustain adequate working capital to finance its operations.
−Removed: The failure to achieve the necessary
−Removed: levels of profitability and cash flows would be detrimental to the Company.
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements do not include any
−Removed: adjustments that might be necessary if the Company is unable to continue as a going concern.
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements
+Added: and notes have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern.
+Added: The Company incurred a net loss of $ 13,194,969 , has
+Added: an accumulated deficit of $ 29,339,120 and working capital deficit of $ 3,013,281 , inclusive of $ 893,000 in subordinated stockholder debt.
+Added: These factors raise substantial doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: The Company’s ability
+Added: to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the Company’s ability to increase revenues, execute on its business plan to acquire
+Added: complimentary companies, raise capital, and to continue to sustain adequate working capital to finance its operations.
+Added: The failure to
+Added: achieve the necessary levels of profitability and cash flows would be detrimental to the Company.
+Added: The consolidated financial statements
+Added: do not include any adjustments that might be necessary if the Company is unable to continue as a going concern.
Other Current Assets
−Removed: current assets totaled $ 3,702,661 and $ 176,925 for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021,
−Removed: approximately $ 3.2 million of the balance was related to prepaid inventory to our suppliers.
−Removed: The remainder of the balance is related
−Removed: to prepaid insurance and other prepaid expenses.
+Added: Other current assets totaled $ 671,933 and $ 3,702,661
+Added: for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, approximately $ 441,000 of the balance was related
+Added: to prepaid inventory to the Company’s suppliers.
+Added: The remainder of the balance was related to prepaid insurance and other prepaid
Fixed Assets, Net
−Removed: assets comprised the following at December 31:
+Added: Fixed assets comprised the following at December 31:
of Fixed Assets
1 unchanged sentence
Leasehold improvements
−Removed: Accumulated depreciation
+Added: Accumulated depreciation and impairment
+Added: ( 2,278,903 )
Fixed assets, net
−Removed: the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, depreciation expense totaled approximately $ 104,000
−Removed: and $ 33,000 ,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: On December 2020, our warehouse and refrigeration equipment was sold to an unrelated party for $ 407,198
−Removed: and the Company recorded a gain on the sale of
−Removed: the equipment of $ 343,181 .
+Added: For the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, depreciation
+Added: expense totaled approximately $ 231,000 and $ 104,000 , respectively.
Goodwill and Intangible Assets, Net
−Removed: following table sets for the changes in the carrying amount of the Company’s goodwill for the years ended December 31, 2021 and
+Added: The following table sets forth the changes in the
+Added: carrying amount of the Company’s goodwill for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021.
Balance, January 1
Acquisition of TOBC
+Added: ( 1,282,064 )
Balance, December 31
−Removed: following table sets for the components of the Company’s intangible assets at December 31, 2021:
+Added: The following table sets forth the components of the
+Added: Company’s intangible assets at December 31, 2022:
of Intangible Assets
Amortization Period (Years)
+Added: Accumulated Amortization and Impairment
+Added: Net Book Value
+Added: Intangible Assets Subject to amortization
+Added: Trademarks – Coastal Pride
+Added: $ ( 850,000 )
+Added: Trademarks – TOBC
+Added: Customer Relationships – Coastal Pride
+Added: ( 1,486,832 )
+Added: Customer Relationships – TOBC
+Added: Non-Compete Agreements – Coastal Pride
+Added: Non-Compete Agreements – TOBC
+Added: $ ( 3,497,806 )
+Added: following table sets forth the components of the Company’s intangible assets at December 31, 2021:
+Added: Amortization Period (Years)
Accumulated Amortization
+Added: and Impairment
Net Book Value
8 unchanged sentences
$ ( 784,885 )
−Removed: aggregate amortization remaining on the intangible assets as of December 31, 2021 is as follows:
−Removed: of Amortization of Intangible Assets
−Removed: Intangible Amortization
−Removed: Capital Line of Credit
−Removed: & Co entered into a $ 14,000,000 revolving line of credit pursuant to a loan and security agreement with ACF Finco I, LP (“ACF”)
−Removed: on August 31, 2016, the proceeds of which were used to pay off the prior line of credit, pay new loan costs of approximately $ 309,000 ,
−Removed: and provide additional working capital to the Company.
−Removed: This facility was secured by all assets of Keeler & Co.
−Removed: This facility was
−Removed: amended on November 18, 2016, June 19, 2017, October 16, 2017, September 19, 2018, November 8, 2018, July 29, 2019, November 26, 2019
−Removed: and May 7, 2020.
−Removed: line of credit accrued interest at a rate equal to the greater of 3 Month LIBOR rate plus 9.25 %, the prime rate plus 6.0 % or a fixed
−Removed: rate of 6.5 %.
−Removed: ACF line of credit agreement was subject to the following terms:
−Removed: is based on up to 85% of eligible accounts receivable plus the net orderly liquidation value of eligible inventory at the same rate,
−Removed: subject to certain defined limitations .
−Removed: line is collateralized by substantially all the assets and property of the Company and is personally guaranteed by the stockholder
−Removed: of the Company.
−Removed: Company is restricted to specified distribution payments, use of funds, and is required to comply with certain other covenants including
−Removed: certain financial ratios.
−Removed: cash received by the Company is applied against the outstanding loan balance.
−Removed: subjective acceleration clause allows ACF to call the note upon a material adverse change.
−Removed: November 26, 2019, Keeler & Co.
−Removed: entered into the seventh amendment to the loan and security agreement with ACF.
−Removed: This amendment memorialized
−Removed: the acquisition of Coastal Pride and made Coastal Pride a co-borrower to the facility.
−Removed: Additionally, the seventh amendment waived and
−Removed: reset the covenant default that occurred during 2019 and extended the term of the facility to 5 years and is subject to early termination
−Removed: by the lender upon defined events of default.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company was in violation of its minimum EBITDA
−Removed: covenant as well as exceeding the covenant related to monies advanced to Bacolod by approximately $ 105,000 .
−Removed: The default interest rate
−Removed: increase of 3 % was implemented in April 2020.
−Removed: May 7, 2020, Keeler & Co.
−Removed: and Coastal Pride entered into an eighth amendment to the loan and security agreement with ACF which acknowledged
−Removed: the execution of a Payroll Protection Program loan and provided a reservation of rights related to a default of the minimum EBITDA covenant.
−Removed: Company analyzed the line of credit modification under ASC 470-50-40-21 and determined that the modification did not trigger any additional
−Removed: accounting due to the revolving line of credit remain unchanged.
−Removed: of December 31, 2021, and 2020, the interest rate was 0 % and 12.48 %, respectively.
−Removed: of December 31, 2021, and 2020, the line of credit had an outstanding balance of $ 0 and approximately $ 1,805,000 , respectively.
−Removed: Company amortized loan costs on a straight-line basis, which approximates the interest method, over the term of the credit facility.
−Removed: The Company added loan costs associated with the working capital lines of credit of approximately $ 70,000 for the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2020, leaving balances in the asset of $ 2,992 , net of approximately $ 585,000 of accumulated amortization as of December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The Company recorded amortization expense of approximately $ 72,000 for the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: March 31, 2021, Keeler & Co.
−Removed: and Coastal Pride entered into a loan and security agreement (“Loan Agreement”) with Lighthouse
−Removed: Financial Corp., a North Carolina corporation (“Lighthouse”) pursuant to the terms of the Loan Agreement, Lighthouse made
−Removed: available to Keeler & Co.
−Removed: and Coastal Pride (together, the “Borrowers”) a $ 5,000,000 revolving line of credit for a term
−Removed: of thirty-six months, renewable annually for one-year periods thereafter.
−Removed: Amounts due under the line of credit are represented by a revolving
−Removed: credit note issued to Lighthouse by the Borrowers.
−Removed: advance rate of the revolving line of credit is 85% with respect to eligible accounts receivable and the lower of 60% of the Borrowers’
−Removed: eligible inventory, or 80% of the net orderly liquidation value, subject to an inventory sublimit of $2,500,000.
−Removed: The inventory portion
−Removed: of the loan will never exceed 50% of the outstanding balance.
−Removed: Interest on the line of credit is the prime rate (with a floor of 3.25%),
−Removed: The Borrowers paid Lighthouse a facility fee of $50,000 in three instalments of $16,667 in March, April and May 2021 and
−Removed: will pay an additional facility fee of $25,000 on each anniversary of March 31, 2021.
−Removed: On January 14, 2022, the maximum inventory advance
−Removed: under the line of credit was adjusted from 50% to 70% until June 30, 2022, 65% to July 31, 2022, 60% to August 31, 2022 and 55% to September
−Removed: 30, 2022 at a monthly fee of 0.25% on the portion of the loan in excess of the 50% advance, in order to increase imports to meet customer
−Removed: line of credit is secured by a first priority security interest on all the assets of each Borrower.
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of a guaranty
−Removed: agreement, the Company guaranteed the obligations of the Borrowers under the note and John Keeler, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer of the Company, provided a personal guaranty of up to $ 1,000,000 to Lighthouse.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021, the Company was in compliance
−Removed: with all financial covenants under the Loan Agreement, except for the requirement to maintain a greater than $ 50,000 cash flow for the
−Removed: fourth quarter of 2021 which was accepted by Lighthouse.
−Removed: Borrowers utilized $ 784,450 of the Lighthouse revolving line of credit to repay the outstanding indebtedness owed to ACF as of March
−Removed: As a result, all obligations owed to ACF were satisfied and the loan agreement with ACF was terminated.
−Removed: The outstanding balance
−Removed: owed to Lighthouse as of December 31, 2021 was $ 2,368,200 .
−Removed: Keeler Promissory Notes – Subordinated
−Removed: Company had unsecured promissory notes outstanding to its stockholder of approximately $ 960,000 and $ 1,299,700 as of December 31, 2021
−Removed: and 2020, respectively.
−Removed: These notes are payable on demand, bear an annual interest rate of 6 % and were subordinated to the ACF working
−Removed: capital line of credit until March 31, 2021.
−Removed: Since March 31, 2021, these notes are subordinated to the Lighthouse note.
−Removed: The Company made
−Removed: principal payments during the year ended December 31, 2021, and 2020 of $ 339,712 and approximately $ 17,000 , respectively.
−Removed: An additional
−Removed: principal settlement of $ 1,593,300 was made in December 2020 by the issuance of 796,650 shares of common stock to the noteholder.
−Removed: March 26, 2019, the Company issued a four-month promissory note in the principal amount of $ 1,000,000 (the “Kenar Note”)
−Removed: to Kenar Overseas Corp., a company registered in Panama (“Kenar”), the term of which was previously extended to March 31,
−Removed: 2020 after which time, on May 21, 2020, the Kenar Note was amended to (i) set the maturity date at March 31, 2021 , (ii) provide that
−Removed: the Company use one-third of any capital raise from the sale of its equity to reduce the outstanding principal under the Kenar Note,
−Removed: (iii) set the interest rate at 18 % per annum, payable monthly commencing October 1, 2020, and (iv) reduce the number of pledged shares
−Removed: Keeler to 4,000,000 .
−Removed: As consideration for Kenar’s agreement to amend the note, on May 27, 2020, the Company issued 1,021,266
−Removed: shares of common stock to Kenar.
−Removed: The outstanding principal amount of the note at December 31, 2020 was $ 872,500 .
−Removed: amendment to the Kenar Note was analyzed under ASC 470-50 and was determined that it will be accounted for as an extinguishment of the
−Removed: old debt and the new debt recorded at fair value with the new effective interest rate of 18 %.
−Removed: Additionally, this treatment resulted in
−Removed: the cost of the modification paid in common stock with a value of $ 2,655,292 charged to other expense as of the date of the amendment
−Removed: as a non-cash forbearance fee.
−Removed: expense for the Kenar Note totaled approximately $ 177,700 during the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: April 28, 2021, the Kenar Note was further amended to extend the maturity date to May 31, 2021.
−Removed: July 6, 2021, the Company entered into a note payoff indemnity agreement with Kenar pursuant to which the Company paid Kenar $ 918,539
−Removed: of principal and accrued interest in full satisfaction of the amounts due to Kenar under the Second Loan Amendment, dated April 26, 2021,
−Removed: between the Company and Kenar, and the Kenar Note was extinguished, and the shares pledged by Mr.
−Removed: Keeler were released.
−Removed: expense for the Kenar Note totaled approximately $ 79,100 during the year ended December 31, 2021.
−Removed: April 2, 2019, the Company issued a four-month unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 100,000 (the “Lobo Note”)
−Removed: to Lobo Holdings, LLLP, a stockholder of the Company (“Lobo”).
−Removed: The Lobo Note bears interest at the rate of 18 % per annum.
−Removed: The Lobo Note may be prepaid in whole or in part without penalty.
−Removed: John Keeler, the Company’s Executive Chairman and Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer, pledged 1,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company to secure the Company’s obligations under the Lobo Note.
−Removed: Note matured on August 2, 2019 and was extended through December 2, 2019 on the same terms and conditions .
−Removed: On November 15, 2019, the
−Removed: Company paid off the Lobo Note with the issuance to Lobo of an unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 100,000 which accrued
−Removed: interest at the rate of 15 % per annum and matured on March 31, 2020.
−Removed: On April 1, 2020, the Company paid off the November 15, 2019 Lobo
−Removed: Note with the issuance to Lobo of a six-month unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 100,000 , which accrued interest at
−Removed: the rate of 10 % per annum and matured on October 1, 2020.
−Removed: On October 1, 2020, the Company paid off the April 1, 2020 note with the issuance
−Removed: of a three-month unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 100,000 , which bears interest at the rate of 10 % per annum and
−Removed: matured on December 31, 2020.
−Removed: expense for the Lobo Note totaled approximately $ 11,200 during the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: January 1, 2021, the Company paid off the October 1, 2020 note with the issuance of a six-month unsecured promissory note in the principal
−Removed: amount of $ 100,000 , which bears interest at the rate of 10 % per annum and matures on June 30, 2021.
−Removed: July 1, 2021, the Company paid off the January 1, 2021 Lobo note with the issuance of a three-month unsecured promissory note in the
−Removed: principal amount of $ 100,000 which accrued interest at the rate of 10 % per annum and matured on September 30, 2021.
−Removed: On October 1, 2021,
−Removed: the Company paid off the July 1, 2021 Lobo Note with the issuance of a one-month unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of
−Removed: $ 100,000 , which accrued interest at the rate of 10 % per annum and matured on November 1, 2021.
−Removed: November 1, 2021, the Company paid Lobo $ 100,877 of principal and accrued interest in full satisfaction of the amounts due to Lobo under
−Removed: the one-month unsecured promissory note dated October 1, 2021, between the Company and Lobo, and the Lobo Note was extinguished.
−Removed: expense for the Lobo Note totaled approximately $ 8,300 during the year ended December 31, 2021.
−Removed: Note – Subordinated
−Removed: November 26, 2019, the Company issued a five-year unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 500,000 to Walter Lubkin Jr.
−Removed: as part of the purchase price for the Coastal Pride acquisition.
−Removed: The note bears and interest rate of 4 % per annum.
−Removed: The note is payable
−Removed: quarterly based on an amount equal to the lesser of (i) $25,000 or (ii) 25% of the EBITDA of Coastal Pride, as determined on the first
−Removed: day of each quarter .
−Removed: The first payment was scheduled for February 26, 2020, however, the EBITDA generated for Coastal during the 3 months
−Removed: did not warrant a principal payment.
−Removed: This note is subordinated to the working capital line of credit.
−Removed: Principal payments are permitted
−Removed: so long as the borrower is not in default of its working capital line of credit.
−Removed: No principal payments were made by the Company during
−Removed: expense for the Walter Lubkin Jr.
−Removed: note totaled approximately $ 19,700 and $ 20,100 during the years ended December 31, 2021, and 2020,
+Added: the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, amortization expense of intangible assets totaled approximately $ 315,000
+Added: and $ 245,000 ,
respectively.
−Removed: October 8, 2021, a portion of the outstanding principal and accrued interest to date totaling $ 34,205 were paid on the note by the Company.
−Removed: Lubkin III Convertible Note – Subordinated
−Removed: November 26, 2019, the Company issued a thirty-nine-month unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 87,842 to Walter Lubkin
−Removed: III as part the purchase price for the Coastal Pride acquisition.
−Removed: The note bears interest at the rate of 4 % per annum.
−Removed: The note is payable
−Removed: in equal quarterly payments over six quarters beginning August 26, 2021 .
−Removed: At the election of the holder, at any time after the first anniversary
−Removed: of the issuance of the note, the then outstanding principal and accrued interest may be converted into the Company’s common stock
−Removed: at a rate of $ 2.00 per share.
−Removed: This note is subordinated to the working capital line of credit.
−Removed: Principal payments are permitted so long
−Removed: as the borrower is not in default of its working capital line of credit.
−Removed: No principal payments were made by the Company during 2020.
−Removed: expense for the Walter Lubkin III note totaled approximately $ 3,300 and $ 3,500 during the years ended December 31, 2021, and 2020, respectively.
−Removed: October 8, 2021, a portion of the outstanding principal and accrued interest to date totaling $ 16,257 were paid on the note by the Company.
−Removed: Greco Convertible Note – Subordinated
−Removed: November 26, 2019, the Company issued a thirty-nine-month unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 71,372 to Tracy Greco
+Added: Working Capital Line of Credit
+Added: On March 31, 2021, Keeler & Co.
+Added: and Coastal Pride
+Added: entered into a loan and security agreement (“Loan Agreement”) with Lighthouse Financial Corp., a North Carolina corporation
+Added: (“Lighthouse”).
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the Loan Agreement, Lighthouse made available to Keeler & Co.
+Added: and Coastal Pride
+Added: (together, the “Borrowers”) a $ 5,000,000 revolving line of credit for a term of thirty-six months, renewable annually for
+Added: one-year periods thereafter.
+Added: Amounts due under the line of credit are represented by a revolving credit note issued to Lighthouse by the
+Added: The advance rate of the revolving line of credit is
+Added: 85% with respect to eligible accounts receivable and the lower of 60% of the Borrowers’ eligible inventory, or 80% of the net orderly
+Added: liquidation value, subject to an inventory sublimit of $2,500,000.
+Added: The inventory portion of the loan will never exceed 50% of the outstanding
+Added: Interest on the line of credit is the prime rate (with a floor of 3.25%), plus 3.75%.
+Added: The Borrowers paid Lighthouse a facility
+Added: fee of $50,000 in three instalments of $16,667 in March, April and May 2021 and will pay an additional facility fee of $25,000 on each
+Added: anniversary of March 31, 2021.
+Added: On January 14, 2022, the maximum inventory advance under the line of credit was adjusted from 50% to 70%
+Added: until June 30, 2022, 65% to July 31, 2022, 60% to August 31, 2022 and 55% to September 30, 2022 at a monthly fee of 0.25% on the portion
+Added: of the loan in excess of the 50% advance, in order to increase imports to meet customer demand .
+Added: The line of credit is secured by a first priority
+Added: security interest on all the assets of each Borrower.
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of a guaranty agreement, the Company guaranteed the obligations
+Added: of the Borrowers under the note and John Keeler, Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, provided a personal guaranty
+Added: of up to $ 1,000,000 to Lighthouse.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, the Company was in compliance with all financial covenants under the Loan
+Added: Agreement, except for the requirement to maintain a greater than $ 50,000 cash flow in the months of July, August, September, October,
+Added: November and December.
+Added: Lighthouse has notified the Borrowers as to this default but has elected not to exercise its rights and remedies
+Added: under the loan documents.
+Added: The Borrowers utilized $ 784,450
+Added: of the Lighthouse revolving line of credit to repay the outstanding indebtedness owed to ACF as of March 31, 2021.
+Added: As a result, all obligations
+Added: owed to ACF were satisfied and the loan agreement with ACF was terminated.
+Added: Cash proceeds from the working capital line of credit totaled $ 12,552,008 and cash payments to the working capital line of credit totaled
+Added: $ 13,144,141 .
+Added: The outstanding balance owed to Lighthouse as of December 31,
+Added: 2022 was $ 1,776,068 .
+Added: John Keeler Promissory Notes
+Added: – Subordinated
+Added: The Company had unsecured promissory notes outstanding
+Added: to its stockholder of approximately $ 893,000 and $ 960,000 as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
+Added: These notes are payable on demand,
+Added: bear an annual interest rate of 6 % and were subordinated to the ACF working capital line of credit until March 31, 2021.
+Added: Since March 31,
+Added: 2021, these notes are subordinated to the Lighthouse note.
+Added: The Company made principal payments during the year ended December 31, 2022,
+Added: and 2021 of $ 67,000 and $ 339,712 , respectively.
+Added: Lind Global Fund II LP
+Added: On January 24, 2022, the Company entered into a
+Added: securities purchase agreement with Lind Global Fund II LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Lind”), pursuant to which
+Added: the Company issued to Lind a secured, two-year, interest free convertible promissory note in the principal amount of $ 5,750,000 and
+Added: warrant to purchase 1,000,000 shares
+Added: of common stock of the Company at an exercise price of $ 4.50 per
+Added: share, subject to customary adjustments.
+Added: The warrant provides for cashless exercise and for full ratchet anti-dilution if the
+Added: Company issues securities at less than $ 4.50 per
+Added: In connection with the issuance of the note and the warrant, the Company paid a $ 150,000 commitment
+Added: fee to Lind and approximately $ 87,000 of
+Added: debt issuance costs.
+Added: The Company recorded a total of $ 2,022,397 debt
+Added: discount at issuance of the debt, including original issuance discount of $ 750,000 ,
+Added: commitment fee of $ 150,000 ,
+Added: $ 87,144 debt
+Added: issuance cost, and $ 1,035,253 related
+Added: to the fair value of warrants issued.
+Added: Amortization expense recorded in interest expense totaled $ 1,378,620 during
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: The unamortized discount on the note totaled $ 643,777 as of December 31, 2022.
+Added: The outstanding principal
+Added: under the note is payable commencing July 24, 2022, in 18 consecutive monthly installments of $ 333,333 , at the Company’s option,
+Added: in cash or shares of common stock at a price (the “Repayment Share Price”) based on 90% of the five lowest volume weighted
+Added: average prices (“VWAP”) during the 20-days prior to the payment date with a floor price of $1.50 per share (the “Floor
+Added: Price”), or a combination of cash and stock provided that if at any time the Repayment Share Price is deemed to be the Floor Price,
+Added: then in addition to shares, the Company will pay Lind an additional amount in cash as determined pursuant to a formula contained in the
+Added: In connection with the issuance
+Added: of the note, the Company granted Lind a first priority security interest and lien on all of its assets, including a pledge on its shares
+Added: in John Keeler & Co.
+Added: Inc., its wholly-owned subsidiary, pursuant to a security agreement and a stock pledge agreement with Lind, dated
+Added: January 24, 2022.
+Added: Each subsidiary of the Company also granted a second priority security interest in all of its respective assets.
+Added: The note is mandatorily payable
+Added: prior to maturity if the Company issues any preferred stock (with certain exceptions described in the note) or, if the Company or its
+Added: subsidiaries issues any indebtedness other than certain amounts under the current line of credit facility with Lighthouse.
+Added: also agreed not to issue or sell any securities with a conversion, exercise or other price based on a discount to the trading prices of
+Added: the Company’s stock or to grant the right to receive additional securities based on future transactions of the Company on terms
+Added: more favorable than those granted to Lind, with certain exceptions.
+Added: If the Company fails to maintain
+Added: the listing and trading of its common stock, the note will become due and payable and Lind may convert all or a portion of the outstanding
+Added: principal at the lower of the then current conversion price and 80 % of the average of the 3-day VWAP during the 20 days prior to delivery
+Added: of the conversion notice.
+Added: If the Company engages in
+Added: capital raising transactions, Lind has the right to purchase up to 10 % of the new securities.
+Added: The note is convertible into
+Added: common stock at $ 5.00 per share, subject to certain adjustments, at any time after the earlier of six months from issuance or the date
+Added: the registration statement is effective;
+Added: provided that no such conversion may be made that would result in beneficial ownership by Lind
+Added: and its affiliates of more than 4.99 % of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock.
+Added: If shares are issued by the Company at
+Added: less than the conversion price, the conversion price will be reduced to such price.
+Added: Upon a change of control
+Added: of the Company, as defined in the note, Lind has the right to require the Company to prepay 10% of the outstanding principal amount of
+Added: The Company may prepay the outstanding principal amount of the note, provided Lind may convert up to 25% of the principal amount
+Added: of the note at a price per share equal to the lesser of the Repayment Share Price or the conversion price .
+Added: The Note contains certain negative
+Added: covenants, including restricting the Company from certain distributions, stock repurchases, borrowing, sale of assets, loans and exchange
+Added: Upon an event of default
+Added: as described in the note, the note will become immediately due and payable at a default interest rate of 125 % of the then outstanding
+Added: principal amount.
+Added: Upon a default, all or a portion of the outstanding principal amount may be converted into shares of common stock by
+Added: Lind at the lower of the conversion price and 80 % of the average of the three lowest daily VWAPs.
+Added: During the year ended
+Added: December 31, 2022, the Company made principal payments on the note totaling $ 1,666,666
+Added: through the issuance of an aggregate of 666,666
+Added: shares of common stock and cash payments of $ 1,175,973
+Added: which included $ 899,999 principal payments and additional payments requested by Lind pursuant to the terms of the note.
+Added: First West Credit Union CEBA Loan
+Added: On June 24, 2021, the Company assumed a commercial
+Added: term loan with First West Credit Union Canada Emergency Business Account (“CEBA”) in the principal amount of CAD$ 60,000 in
+Added: connection with the acquisition of TOBC.
+Added: The loan initially bears no interest and is due on December 31, 2025.
+Added: The borrower may prepay
+Added: all or part of the loan commencing November 1, 2022 and, if by December 31, 2022 the Company had paid 75% of the loan amount, the remaining
+Added: 25% will be forgiven as per the loan agreement.
+Added: If less than 75% of the loan amount is outstanding by December 31, 2022 , the then outstanding
+Added: balance will be converted to interest only monthly payments at 5.0 %.
+Added: On October 19, 2022, the loan was amended to extend the loan forgiveness
+Added: date and interest-free period from December 31, 2022 to December 31, 2023.
+Added: Walter Lubkin Jr.
+Added: Note – Subordinated
+Added: On November 26, 2019, the Company issued a
+Added: five-year unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 500,000
+Added: to Walter Lubkin Jr.
as part of the purchase price for the Coastal Pride acquisition.
+Added: note bears and interest rate of 4 %
+Added: The note is payable quarterly based on an amount equal to the lesser of (i) $25,000 or (ii) 25% of the EBITDA of Coastal
+Added: Pride, as determined on the first day of each quarter .
+Added: The first payment was scheduled for February 26, 2020, however, the
+Added: EBITDA generated for Coastal Pride during the 3 months did not warrant a principal payment.
+Added: This note is subordinated to the working
+Added: capital line of credit.
+Added: Principal payments are permitted so long as the borrower is not in default of its working capital line of
+Added: Interest expense for the Walter Lubkin Jr.
+Added: approximately $ 18,000 and $ 19,700 during the years ended December 31, 2022, and 2021, respectively.
+Added: On October 8, 2021, $ 34,205 of the outstanding principal
+Added: and accrued interest to date was paid on the note by the Company.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, $ 38,799
+Added: of the outstanding principal and accrued interest was paid in cash and $ 104,640
+Added: of the outstanding principal and accrued interest was paid in shares of common stock of the Company.
+Added: Walter Lubkin III Convertible Note – Subordinated
+Added: On November 26, 2019, the Company issued a thirty-nine-month
+Added: unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 87,842 to Walter Lubkin III as part the purchase price for the Coastal Pride acquisition.
The note bears interest at the rate of 4 % per annum.
−Removed: The note is payable
−Removed: in equal quarterly payments over six quarters beginning August 26, 2021 .
−Removed: At the election of the holder, at any time after the first anniversary
−Removed: of the issuance of the note, the then outstanding principal and accrued interest may be converted into the Company’s common stock
−Removed: at a rate of $ 2.00 per share.
−Removed: This note is subordinated to the working capital line of credit.
−Removed: Principal payments are permitted so long
−Removed: as the borrower is not in default of its working capital line of credit.
−Removed: No principal payments were made by the Company during 2020.
−Removed: expense for the Tracy Greco note totaled approximately $ 2,700 and $ 2,800 during the years ended December 31, 2021, and 2020, respectively.
−Removed: October 8, 2021, a portion of the outstanding principal and accrued interest to date totaling $ 13,209 were paid on the note by the Company.
−Removed: Lubkin Convertible Note – Subordinated
−Removed: November 26, 2019, the Company issued a thirty-nine-month unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 50,786 to John Lubkin
−Removed: as part the Coastal Pride acquisition.
+Added: The note is payable in equal quarterly payments over six quarters beginning August
+Added: At the election of the holder, at any time after the first anniversary of the issuance of the note, the then outstanding principal
+Added: and accrued interest may be converted into the Company’s common stock at a rate of $ 2.00 per share.
+Added: This note is subordinated to
+Added: the working capital line of credit.
+Added: Principal payments are permitted so long as the borrower is not in default of its working capital
+Added: line of credit.
+Added: Interest expense for the Walter Lubkin III note totaled
+Added: approximately $ 1,700 and $ 3,300 during the years ended December 31, 2022, and 2021, respectively.
+Added: On October 8, 2021, $ 16,257 of the outstanding principal
+Added: and accrued interest to date was paid on the note by the Company.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, all of the
+Added: outstanding principal and accrued interest to date was paid through a combination of cash and shares of common stock issued on the
+Added: note by the Company totaling $ 75,707 .
+Added: Tracy Greco Convertible Note – Subordinated
+Added: On November 26, 2019, the Company issued a thirty-nine-month
+Added: unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 71,372 to Tracy Greco as part of the purchase price for the Coastal Pride acquisition.
The note bears interest at the rate of 4 % per annum.
−Removed: The note is payable in equal quarterly payments
−Removed: over six quarters beginning August 26, 2021 .
−Removed: At the election of the holder, at any time after the first anniversary of the issuance of
−Removed: the note, the then outstanding principal and accrued interest may be converted into the Company’s common stock at a rate of $ 2.00
−Removed: This note is subordinated to the working capital line of credit.
−Removed: Principal payments are permitted so long as the borrower
−Removed: is not in default of its working capital line of credit.
−Removed: No principal payments were made by the Company during 2020.
−Removed: expense for the John Lubkin note totaled approximately $ 1,900 and $ 2,000 during the years ended December 31, 2021, and 2020, respectively.
−Removed: October 8, 2021, a portion of the outstanding principal and accrued interest to date totaling $ 9,399 were paid on the note by the Company.
+Added: The note is payable in equal quarterly payments over six quarters beginning August
+Added: At the election of the holder, at any time after the first anniversary of the issuance of the note, the then outstanding principal
+Added: and accrued interest may be converted into the Company’s common stock at a rate of $ 2.00 per share.
+Added: This note is subordinated to
+Added: the working capital line of credit.
+Added: Principal payments are permitted so long as the borrower is not in default of its working capital
+Added: line of credit.
+Added: Interest expense for the Tracy Greco note totaled
+Added: approximately $ 1,400 and $ 2,700 during the years ended December 31, 2022, and 2021, respectively.
+Added: On October 8, 2021, $ 13,209 of the outstanding principal
+Added: and accrued interest to date was paid on the note by the Company.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, all of the
+Added: outstanding principal and accrued interest to date was paid through a combination of cash and shares of common stock issued on the
+Added: note by the Company totaling $ 61,511 .
+Added: John Lubkin Convertible Note – Subordinated
+Added: On November 26, 2019, the Company issued a thirty-nine-month
+Added: unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 50,786 to John Lubkin as part the Coastal Pride acquisition.
+Added: The note bears interest
+Added: at the rate of 4 % per annum.
+Added: The note is payable in equal quarterly payments over six quarters beginning August 26, 2021 .
+Added: At the election
+Added: of the holder, at any time after the first anniversary of the issuance of the note, the then outstanding principal and accrued interest
+Added: may be converted into the Company’s common stock at a rate of $ 2.00 per share.
+Added: This note is subordinated to the working capital
+Added: line of credit.
+Added: Principal payments are permitted so long as the borrower is not in default of its working capital line of credit.
+Added: Interest expense for the John Lubkin note totaled
+Added: approximately $ 1,000 and $ 1,900 during the years ended December 31, 2022, and 2021, respectively.
+Added: On October 8, 2021, $ 9,399 of the outstanding principal
+Added: and accrued interest to date was paid on the note by the Company.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, all of the
+Added: outstanding principal and accrued interest to date was paid through a combination of cash and shares of common stock issued on the
+Added: note by the Company totaling $ 43,771 .
+Added: On March 26, 2019, the Company issued a four-month
+Added: promissory note in the principal amount of $ 1,000,000 (the “Kenar Note”) to Kenar Overseas Corp., a company registered in
+Added: Panama (“Kenar”), the term of which was previously extended to March 31, 2020 after which time, on May 21, 2020, the Kenar
+Added: Note was amended to (i) set the maturity date at March 31, 2021 , (ii) provide that the Company use one-third of any capital raise from
+Added: the sale of its equity to reduce the outstanding principal under the Kenar Note, (iii) set the interest rate at 18 % per annum, payable
+Added: monthly commencing October 1, 2020, and (iv) reduce the number of pledged shares by Mr.
+Added: Keeler to 4,000,000 .
+Added: As consideration for Kenar’s
+Added: agreement to amend the note, on May 27, 2020, the Company issued 1,021,266 shares of common stock to Kenar.
+Added: The amendment to the Kenar Note was analyzed under
+Added: ASC 470-50 and was determined that it will be accounted for as an extinguishment of the old debt and the new debt will be recorded at
+Added: fair value with the new effective interest rate of 18 %.
+Added: Additionally, this treatment resulted in the cost of the modification paid in
+Added: common stock with a value of $ 2,655,292 charged to other expense as of the date of the amendment as a non-cash forbearance fee.
+Added: On April 28, 2021, the Kenar Note was further amended
+Added: to extend the maturity date to May 31, 2021.
+Added: On July 6, 2021, the Company entered into a note payoff
+Added: indemnity agreement with Kenar pursuant to which the Company paid Kenar $ 918,539 of principal and accrued interest in full satisfaction
+Added: of the amounts due to Kenar under the Second Loan Amendment, dated April 26, 2021, between the Company and Kenar, and the Kenar Note was
+Added: extinguished, and the shares pledged by Mr.
+Added: Keeler were released.
+Added: Interest expense for the Kenar Note totaled approximately
+Added: $ 79,100 during the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: On April 2, 2019, the Company issued a four-month
+Added: unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 100,000 (the “Lobo Note”) to Lobo Holdings, LLLP, a stockholder of the
+Added: Company (“Lobo”).
+Added: The Lobo Note bears interest at the rate of 18 % per annum.
+Added: The Lobo Note may be prepaid in whole or in part
+Added: without penalty.
+Added: John Keeler, the Company’s Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, pledged 1,000,000 shares of common stock
+Added: of the Company to secure the Company’s obligations under the Lobo Note.
+Added: The Lobo Note matured on August 2, 2019 and was extended
+Added: through December 2, 2019 on the same terms and conditions .
+Added: On November 15, 2019, the Company paid off the Lobo Note with the issuance
+Added: to Lobo of an unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 100,000 which accrued interest at the rate of 15 % per annum and matured
+Added: on March 31, 2020.
+Added: On April 1, 2020, the Company paid off the November 15, 2019 Lobo Note with the issuance to Lobo of a six-month unsecured
+Added: promissory note in the principal amount of $ 100,000 , which accrued interest at the rate of 10 % per annum and matured on October 1, 2020.
+Added: On October 1, 2020, the Company paid off the April 1, 2020 note with the issuance of a three-month unsecured promissory note in the principal
+Added: amount of $ 100,000 , which bears interest at the rate of 10 % per annum and matured on December 31, 2020.
+Added: On January 1, 2021, the Company paid off the October
+Added: 1, 2020 note with the issuance of a six-month unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 100,000 , which bears interest at the
+Added: rate of 10 % per annum and matures on June 30, 2021.
+Added: On July 1, 2021, the Company paid off the January
+Added: 1, 2021 Lobo note with the issuance of a three-month unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 100,000 which accrued interest
+Added: at the rate of 10 % per annum and matured on September 30, 2021.
+Added: On October 1, 2021, the Company paid off the July 1, 2021 Lobo Note with
+Added: the issuance of a one-month unsecured promissory note in the principal amount of $ 100,000 , which accrued interest at the rate of 10 % per
+Added: annum and matured on November 1, 2021.
+Added: 1, 2021, the Company paid Lobo $ 100,877 of principal and accrued interest in full satisfaction of the amounts due to Lobo under the one-month
+Added: unsecured promissory note dated October 1, 2021, between the Company and Lobo, and the Lobo Note was extinguished.
+Added: Interest expense for the Lobo Note totaled approximately
+Added: $ 8,300 during the year ended December 31, 2021.
Protection Program Loans
−Removed: April 17, 2020, the Company received proceeds of $ 344,762 and
−Removed: issued an unsecured promissory note to US Century Bank in the principal amount of $ 344,762 in
−Removed: connection with the Payroll Protection Program of the CARES Act (“PPP Loan”).
−Removed: The note accrues interest at 1 %
−Removed: per annum, matures two years from the date of issuance and is fully guaranteed by the Small Business Administration
−Removed: (“SBA”) and may be forgiven provided certain criteria are met.
−Removed: The Company is required to make monthly payments of
−Removed: approximately $ 19,401 beginning
−Removed: November 17, 2020.
−Removed: In September 2020, the Company applied for the loan forgiveness by SBA through US Century Bank for the full
−Removed: amount which was granted on November 16, 2020.
March 2, 2021, the Company received proceeds of $ 371,944 and issued an unsecured promissory note to US Century in the principal amount
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was granted in October 2021 and was recognized as other income in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December
−Removed: Business Combination
of Taste of BC Aquafarms
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following table summarizes the acquisition date fair value of the consideration paid, identifiable assets acquired, and liabilities
−Removed: The business combination accounting is not yet complete and the amounts assigned to assets acquired and liabilities assumed
−Removed: are provisional.
−Removed: Therefore, this may result in future adjustments to the provisional amounts as information is obtained about facts
−Removed: and circumstances that existed at the acquisition date.
+Added: assumed, including goodwill.
of Fair Value of Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed
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time of closing which was determined to be $ 2.00 , based on the Company’s private placement offering price.
−Removed: assumed included three mortgage loans of approximately CAD$ 490,000 which were paid off by the Company on July 9, 2021.
−Removed: The Company has
−Removed: one commercial loan outstanding for CAD$ 60,000 which is due on December 31, 2025.
+Added: assumed included three mortgage loans of approximately CAD$ 490,000
+Added: which were paid off by the Company on July 9,
+Added: The Company has one commercial loan outstanding for CAD$ 60,000
+Added: which is due on December 31, 2025.
Forma Information
−Removed: following pro forma information assumes the business acquisition occurred on January 1, 2020.
−Removed: For all of the business acquisitions, depreciation
−Removed: and amortization have been included in the calculation of the below pro forma information based upon the actual acquisition costs.
+Added: following pro forma information assumes the TOBC acquisition occurred on January 1, 2021.
+Added: For the TOBC acquisition,
+Added: depreciation and amortization has been included in the calculation of the below pro forma information based upon the actual
+Added: acquisition costs.
of Proforma Information
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December 31, 2021
−Removed: For the year ended
−Removed: December 31, 2020
Net loss attributable to common shareholders
$ ( 3,102,683 )
−Removed: $ ( 4,721,865 )
Basic and diluted loss per share
−Removed: information included in the pro forma amounts is derived from historical information obtained from the Sellers of the business.
+Added: information included in the pro forma amounts is derived from historical information obtained from the Sellers of TOBC.
+Added: of Gault Seafood
+Added: February 3, 2022, Coastal Pride entered into an asset purchase agreement with Gault Seafood and Robert J.
+Added: Gault II pursuant to which Coastal
+Added: Pride acquired all of Gault Seafood’s right, title and interest in and to assets relating to Gault Seafood’s soft-shell crab
+Added: operations, including intellectual property, equipment, vehicles and other assets used in connection with the soft-shell crab operations.
+Added: Coastal Pride did not assume any liabilities in connection with the acquisition.
+Added: The purchase price for the assets consisted of a cash
+Added: payment in the amount of $ 359,250 and the issuance of 167,093 shares of common stock of the Company with a fair value of $ 359,250 .
+Added: acquisition was accounted for as an asset acquisition.
+Added: Value of Consideration Transferred and Recording of Assets Acquired
+Added: following table summarizes the acquisition date fair value of the consideration paid and identifiable assets acquired.
+Added: of Fair Value of Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed
+Added: Consideration Paid:
+Added: Common stock,
+Added: 167,093 shares of common stock of the Company
+Added: Transaction costs
+Added: Fair value of total consideration
+Added: Purchase Price Allocation:
+Added: Fixed assets acquired
+Added: Customer relationships
+Added: Fair market value of net assets acquired
Stockholders’ Equity
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of common stock were authorized for issuance to the stockholders in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Designation for the
−Removed: Series A Stock on March 31, 2020, June 30, 2020, September 29, 2020, and December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The dividends resulted in the issuance of
−Removed: an aggregate of 52,286 shares of common stock with a value of $ 113,040 .
−Removed: On March 31, 2021, the Company issued 11,975 shares of common
−Removed: stock to Series A preferred stockholders as a common stock dividend for the quarter ended March 31, 2021.
+Added: Series A Stock.
+Added: On March 31, 2021, the Company issued 11,975 shares of common stock to Series A preferred stockholders as a common stock
+Added: dividend for the quarter ended March 31, 2021.
Each share of Series A Stock is convertible at any time and in the sole discretion of the holder, into shares of common stock at
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1,413 shares of Series A Stock.
−Removed: Company is authorized to issue 100,000,000 shares of common stock at a par value of $ .0001 and had 24,671,318 and 19,580,721 shares of
−Removed: common stock issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
−Removed: May 27, 2020, the Company issued 5,000 shares of common stock at $ 2.00 per share in a private placement offering.
−Removed: May 27, 2020, the Company issued 1,021,266 shares of common stock to Kenar at $ 2.60 per share as a forbearance fee.in connection with
−Removed: Kenar’s agreement to amend its outstanding promissory note.
+Added: Company is authorized to issue 100,000,000 shares of common stock at a par value of $ 0.0001 and had 26,766,425 and 24,671,318 shares
+Added: of common stock issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
July 1, 2020, the Company entered into an investment banking engagement agreement, as amended on October 30, 2020, with Newbridge Securities
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of $ 69,000 for the year ended December 31, 2021 in connection with these shares.
−Removed: December 30, 2020, the Company issued 796,650 shares of common stock to John Keeler’s designee as partial payment of outstanding
−Removed: notes payable totaling to $ 1,593,300 .
−Removed: of common stock were issued to the Series A preferred stockholders in accordance with the terms of the Certificate of Designation for
−Removed: the Series A Stock on March 31, 2020, June 30, 2020, September 29, 2020 and December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The dividends resulted in the issuances
−Removed: of an aggregate of 52,286 shares of common stock with a value of $ 113,040 during 2020.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company issued 115,814 shares of common stock valued at $ 189,000 for legal and consulting fees.
February 8, 2021, the Company issued 25,000 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 25,250 to an investor relations firm for services
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March 31, 2021, the Company issued 11,975 shares of common stock to Series A preferred stockholders as a common stock dividend with an
−Removed: aggregate fair value of $ 28,260 for the three months e nd ed March 31, 2021.
+Added: aggregate fair value of $ 28,260 for the three months ended March 31, 2021.
April 15, 2021, the Company issued an aggregate of 16,460 shares of common stock to Walter Lubkin Jr., Walter Lubkin III, Tracy Greco
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an aggregate 1,413 shares of Series A preferred stock.
+Added: July 21, 2021, the Company entered into a consulting agreement as amended on November 10, 2021, with Intelligent Investments I, LLC (“Intelligent”).
+Added: In consideration for consulting services, the Company agreed to issue Intelligent a total of 52,326 shares of common stock with a fair
+Added: value of $ 171,106 which is amortized to expense over the term of the agreement.
+Added: The Company recognized stock compensation expense of
+Added: $ 136,885 for the year ended December 31, 2022 in connection with these shares.
August 3, 2021, the Company issued 5,000 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 30,000 to an investor relations firm for services
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Such warrant is exercisable on a date which is 180 days from the closing of the underwritten offering and expires on November
−Removed: November 10, 2021 and December 31, 2021, the Company issued 52,326 and 18,405 shares of common stock, respectively, to Intelligent Investments
−Removed: I LLC for legal services provided to the Company.
+Added: December 31, 2021, the Company issued 18,405 shares of common stock to Intelligent Investments I LLC for legal services provided to the
December 31, 2021, the Company issued 5,000 shares of common stock to TraDigital Marketing Group for consulting services provided to
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each of Timothy McLellan and Trond Ringstad and 19,909 shares of common stock to Jeffrey Guzy for serving as directors of the Company.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2021, we issued an aggregate of 370,750
−Removed: shares of common stock to investors upon the
−Removed: exercise of warrants for total proceeds of $ 882,800 .
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2021, we issued an aggregate of 370,750 shares of common stock to investors upon the exercise of warrants
+Added: for total proceeds of $ 882,800 .
the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company sold pursuant to subscription agreements an aggregate of 1,500,000 shares of common stock
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investors in private offerings for gross proceeds of $ 3 million.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, $ 549,231 and $ 139,380 , respectively, in compensation expense was recognized on
+Added: January 24, 2022, the Company issued 125,000 shares of common stock to an investor upon the exercise of warrants for total proceeds of
+Added: February 3, 2022, the Company issued 167,093 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 359,250 to Gault Seafood as partial consideration
+Added: for the purchase of certain of its assets.
+Added: March 31, 2022, the Company issued 15,385 shares of common stock to Intelligent Investments I LLC, with a fair value of $ 30,000 , for
+Added: legal services provided to the Company.
+Added: March 31, 2022, the Company issued 5,000 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 9,750 to TraDigital Marketing Group for consulting
+Added: services provided to the Company.
+Added: April 1, 2022, the Company issued 2,871 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 6,000 to the designee of Clear Think Capital LLC
+Added: (“Clear Think Capital”) for consulting services provided to the Company.
+Added: April 4, 2022, the Company issued 9,569 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 20,000 to SRAX, Inc.
+Added: for consulting services provided
+Added: to the Company which is amortized to expense over the term of the agreement.
+Added: The Company recognized stock compensation expense of $ 15,000
+Added: for the year ended December 31, 2022 in connection with these shares.
+Added: April 5, 2022, the Company issued an aggregate of 24,816 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 156,341 to Newbridge Securities
+Added: Corporation and its affiliates for consulting services provided to the Company.
+Added: May 1, 2022, the Company issued 3,922 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 6,000 to the designee of Clear Think Capital for consulting
+Added: services provided to the Company.
+Added: June 1, 2022, the Company issued 4,444 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 6,000 to the designee of Clear Think Capital for
+Added: consulting services provided to the Company.
+Added: June 3, 2022, the Company issued 10,000 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 13,800 to TraDigital Marketing Group for consulting
+Added: services provided to the Company.
+Added: June 30, 2022, the Company issued 24,194 shares of common stock to Intelligent Investments I LLC, with a fair value of $ 30,000 , for legal
+Added: services provided to the Company.
+Added: July 1, 2022, the Company issued 4,839 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 6,000 to the designee of Clear Think Capital for
+Added: consulting services provided to the Company.
+Added: August 1, 2022, the Company issued 4,615 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 6,000 to the designee of Clear Think Capital for
+Added: consulting services provided to the Company.
+Added: August 25, 2022, the Company issued 222,222 shares of common stock to Lind, with a fair value of $ 271,111 , in satisfaction of the convertible
+Added: promissory note.
+Added: September 1, 2022, the Company issued 5,217 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 6,000 to the designee of Clear Think Capital
+Added: for consulting services provided to the Company.
+Added: September 26, 2022, the Company issued 222,222 shares of common stock to Lind, with a fair value of $ 176,666 , in satisfaction of the
+Added: convertible promissory note.
+Added: October 1, 2022, the Company issued 9,524 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 6,000 to the designee of Clear Think Capital for
+Added: consulting services provided to the Company.
+Added: November 1, 2022, the Company issued 6,593 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 6,000 to the designee of Clear Think Capital
+Added: for consulting services provided to the Company.
+Added: December 1, 2022, the Company issued 9,231 shares of common stock with a fair value of $ 6,000 to the designee of Clear Think Capital
+Added: for consulting services provided to the Company.
+Added: December 21, 2022, the Company issued 222,222 shares of common stock to Lind with a fair value of $ 100,000 , in satisfaction of the convertible
+Added: promissory note.
+Added: December 31, 2022, the Company issued 62,500 shares
+Added: of common stock to each of Nubar Herian and John Keeler, 100,000 shares of common stock to each of Timothy McLellan and Trond Ringstad,
+Added: 43,403 shares of common stock to each of Juan Carlos Dalto and Silvia Alana and 143,750 shares of common stock to Jeffrey Guzy with a
+Added: total fair value of $ 222,222 for serving as directors of the Company.
+Added: December 31, 2022, the Company issued an aggregate of 440,572 shares of common stock to Walter Lubkin Jr., Walter Lubkin III, Tracy Greco
+Added: and John Lubkin in lieu of $ 176,228 of outstanding principal and interest under promissory notes issued by the Company to them in connection
+Added: with the Coastal Pride acquisition.
+Added: the years ended December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, $ 187,385 and $ 549,231 , respectively, in compensation expense was recognized on
the following:
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during the first year from the date of grant, were issued to the Company’s directors during the year ended December 31, 2021.
−Removed: options to purchase an aggregate of 176,417 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $ 2.30 , which vest in equal quarterly installments starting on the 48th month through the 60th month
−Removed: upon meeting certain performance conditions, were issued to an employee of TOBC during the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: options to purchase an aggregate of 7,013 shares of common stock at an exercise price of
+Added: $ 6.00 , which vest in equal monthly installments during the term of the option, were issued
+Added: to an officer of the Company during the year ended December 31, 2021.
options to purchase an aggregate of 175,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $ 2.00 , which vest in equal monthly installments
−Removed: during the term of the option, were issued to an officer of the Company during the year ended December 31, 2021.
−Removed: following table summarizes the assumptions used to estimate the fair value of the stock options granted for the year ended December 31,
−Removed: 2021 since no options were granted for the year ended December 31, 2020:
+Added: during the term of the option, were issued to the Company’s directors during the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: options to purchase 27,552 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $ 0.86 , which vest in equal monthly installments during
+Added: the term of the option, were issued to an employee during the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: options to purchase 5,696 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $ 0.79 , which vest in equal monthly installments during the
+Added: term of the option, were issued to an employee during the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: following table summarizes the assumptions used to estimate the fair value of the stock options granted for the years ended December
+Added: 31, 2022 and 2021:
of Fair Value of Stock Options
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Risk Free Interest Rate
+Added: 2.87 % – 4.27 %
+Added: 0.90 % – 1.69 %
Expected life of options
−Removed: the Black-Scholes option pricing model, the fair value of the 683,430 options granted during the year ended December 31, 2021 was estimated
−Removed: at $ 1,251,598 on the date of grant.
−Removed: For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, the unrecognized portion of the expense remaining
−Removed: outstanding was $ 823,670 and $ 327,852 , respectively.
−Removed: The weighted average period of unrecognized stock options compensation that is expected
−Removed: to be recognized as expense is approximately 7 years.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2021, an aggregate of 85,000 shares subject
−Removed: to options were forfeited, 12,500 shares were vested, which resulted in a reversal of the expense of $ 13,580 .
+Added: the Black-Scholes option pricing model, the fair value of the options to purchase an aggregate of 683,430 shares of common stock granted
+Added: during the year ended December 31, 2021 was estimated at $ 1,251,598 on the date of grant.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2021, the unrecognized
+Added: portion of the expense remaining outstanding was $ 823,670 .
+Added: The weighted average period of unrecognized stock options compensation that
+Added: is expected to be recognized as expense is approximately 7 years.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2021, an aggregate of 85,000 shares
+Added: subject to options were forfeited, 12,500 shares were vested, which resulted in a reversal of the expense of $ 13,580 .
+Added: April 20, 2022, the Company’s existing directors and two newly appointed directors each entered into a one-year director service
+Added: agreement with the Company, which will automatically renew for successive one-year terms unless either party notifies the other of its
+Added: desire not to renew the agreement at least 30 days prior to the end of the then current term, or unless earlier terminated in accordance
+Added: with the terms of the agreement.
+Added: As compensation for serving on the Board of Directors, each director will be entitled to a $ 25,000 annual
+Added: stock grant and for serving on a Committee of the Board, an additional $ 5,000 annual stock grant, both based upon the closing sales price
+Added: of the common stock on the last trading day of the calendar year.
+Added: Each director who serves as chairman of the Audit Committee, Compensation
+Added: Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee will be entitled to an additional $ 15,000 , $ 10,000 and $ 7,500 annual stock grant, respectively.
+Added: As additional consideration for such Board service, on April 20, 2022, each director was granted a five-year option to purchase 25,000
+Added: shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $ 2.00 per share, which shares will vest in equal quarterly installments
+Added: of 1,250 shares during the term of the option.
+Added: The agreement also includes customary confidentiality provisions and one-year non-competition
+Added: and non-solicitation provisions.
+Added: September 16, 2022, the Company granted an employee a three -year option to purchase 27,552 shares of common stock at an exercise price
+Added: of $ 0.86 which vests in equal monthly installments during the term of the option.
+Added: November 22, 2022, the Company granted an employee a three -year option to purchase 5,696 shares of common stock at an exercise price
+Added: of $ 0.79 which vests in equal monthly installments during the term of the option.
+Added: the Black-Scholes option pricing model, the fair value of the 175,000 options, 27,552 options and 2,696 options granted during the year
+Added: ended December 31, 2022 is estimated at $ 84,334 , $ 8,409 and $ 1,615 , respectively, on the date of grant using the following assumptions:
+Added: stock price of $ 1.57 , $ 0.86 and $ 0.79 at the grant date, exercise price of the option, option term, volatility rate of 39.23 %, 46.72 %
+Added: and 46.72 % and risk-free interest rate of 2.87 %, 3.81 % and 4.27 %, respectively.
+Added: The unrecognized portion of the expense remaining at
+Added: December 31, 2022 is $ 72,620 , $ 7,600 and $ 1,558 , respectively, which is expected to be recognized to expense over a period of three years .
following table represents option activity for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021:
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Exercisable - December 31, 2022
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company determined that the five -year option to purchase 176,417 shares of common stock at an exercise
+Added: price of $ 2.30 granted to an employee of TOBC in 2021 does not meet the vesting requirements pursuant to the terms of the option grant
+Added: and accordingly, reversed the expense recorded of approximately $ 76,400 and $ 79,023 for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
non-vested options outstanding are 339,878 and 998,431 for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
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Exercisable – December 31, 2022
−Removed: of December 31, 2021, the Company issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,500,000
−Removed: shares at an exercise price of $ 2.00
−Removed: per share in a private offering to seventy-seven
−Removed: accredited investors that expire in June 2024.
−Removed: The Company also issued a warrant to purchase an aggregate of 56,000
−Removed: shares of common stock at an exercise price of
−Removed: per share to Newbridge.
−Removed: Such warrant is exercisable
−Removed: on a date which is 180 days from the closing of the offering November 5, 2021 and expires on November 5, 2024.
−Removed: The Company issued
−Removed: 353,250 shares at an exercise price of $ 2.40 and 17,500 shares at an exercise price of $ 2.00 to investors upon the exercise of warrants.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company did not have any warrant activity.
+Added: of December 31, 2021, the Company issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,500,000 shares at an exercise price of $ 2.00 per share
+Added: in a private offering to seventy-seven accredited investors that expire in June 2024.
+Added: The Company also issued a warrant to purchase an
+Added: aggregate of 56,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $ 5.00 per share to Newbridge.
+Added: Such warrant is exercisable on a date
+Added: which is 180 days from the closing of the offering November 5, 2021 and expires on November 5, 2024.
+Added: The Company issued 353,250 shares
+Added: at an exercise price of $ 2.40 and 17,500 shares at an exercise price of $ 2.00 to investors upon the exercise of warrants.
+Added: January 24, 2022, in connection with the issuance of the $ 5,750,000 promissory note to Lind pursuant to a securities purchase agreement,
+Added: the Company issued Lind a five -year warrant to purchase 1,000,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $ 4.50 per share.
+Added: warrant provides for cashless exercise and full ratchet anti-dilution if the Company issues securities at less than $ 4.50 per share.
+Added: Under the Black-Scholes pricing model, the fair value of the warrant issued to purchase 1,000,000 shares of common stock was estimated
+Added: at $ 1,412,213 on the date of issuance using the following assumptions:
+Added: stock price of $ 3.97 at the date of the agreement, exercise price
+Added: of the warrant, warrant term, volatility rate of 43.21 % and risk-free interest rate of 1.53 % from the Department of Treasury.
+Added: fair value of $ 1,035,253 was calculated using the net proceeds of the convertible note and accounted for as paid in capital.
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company issued 125,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $ 2.00 to an investor upon
+Added: exercise of a warrant.
income tax expense differs from the statutory federal rates of 21% for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 due to the following:
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Change in valuation allowance
+Added: Income Tax Provision/(Benefit)
components of the net deferred tax asset at December 31, 2022 and 2021, are as follows:
−Removed: of Deferred Income Tax Assets
+Added: of Deferred Income Tax Asset
Deferred Tax Assets
−Removed: Charitable Contribution Carryforward
−Removed: Inventory Reserve
Business Interest Limitation
Stock based compensation
−Removed: Federal Net Operating loss
−Removed: State Net Operating Loss
+Added: Net Operating loss carryovers
+Added: Non-Capital Losses
Net Deferred Tax Asset/(Liability)
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Net Deferred Tax Asset/(Liability)
−Removed: periods for all fiscal years after 2018 remain open to examination by the federal and state taxing jurisdictions to which the Company
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021, the Company has federal net operating loss of $ 3,054,257 to carry forward indefinitely.
+Added: periods for all fiscal years after 2018 remain open to examination by the federal and state taxing jurisdictions to which the
+Added: Company is subject.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, the Company has cumulative net federal and state operating losses of $ 8,984,664
+Added: and $ 4,668,349 , respectively.
740, “Income Taxes” requires that a valuation allowance be established when it is “more likely than not” that
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Company leased its Miami office and warehouse facility from JK Real Estate, a related party through common family beneficial ownership.
−Removed: The lease which had a 20 -year
−Removed: term, expiring in July 2021
−Removed: was terminated on December 31, 2020, upon the sale of the facility.
−Removed: The Company was a guarantor of the mortgage on the facility which had a zero
−Removed: balance at December 31, 2020.
−Removed: Therefore, the
−Removed: Company did not record any liability related to the mortgage in the consolidated financial statements as the Company will not be called
−Removed: upon to perform under any guarantee, in accordance with ASC 460, Guarantees .
−Removed: In connection with the sale, the Company retained
−Removed: approximately 4,756 square
−Removed: feet of such space, rent-free for 12 months.
−Removed: On January 1, 2022, the Company entered into a verbal month-to-month lease agreement for
−Removed: its executive offices with an unrelated third party.
−Removed: The Company has paid $ 11,600
−Removed: to date under this lease.
−Removed: Company leases approximately 1,100
−Removed: square feet in Beaufort South Carolina for
−Removed: the offices of Coastal Pride.
−Removed: This office space consists of two leases with related parties that expire 2024.
−Removed: On February 3, 2022, in
−Removed: connection with the acquisition of certain assets of Gault, the Company entered into a one -year lease agreement for 9,050 square
−Removed: feet from Gault in Beaufort, South Carolina for $ 1,000
−Removed: per month until a new facility is completed.
−Removed: facilities are on land leased to TOBC for approximately $ 2,500
−Removed: per month plus taxes from Steve and Janet Atkinson,
−Removed: the former TOBC owners that expired in December 2021.
−Removed: As of March 31, 2022, renewal of this lease has not been finalized and no rent
−Removed: payments have been made.
+Added: The lease which had a 20 -year term, expiring in July 2021 was terminated on December 31, 2020, upon the sale of the facility to an unrelated
+Added: In connection with the sale, the Company retained approximately 4,756 square feet of such space, rent-free for 12 months.
+Added: On January 1, 2022, the Company entered into a verbal month-to-month lease agreement for its executive offices with an unrelated third
+Added: The Company has paid $ 63,800 to date under this lease.
+Added: Pride leases approximately 1,100 square feet of office space in Beaufort, South Carolina.
+Added: This office space consists of two leases with
+Added: related parties that expire 2024.
+Added: February 3, 2022, in connection with the acquisition of certain assets of Gault, the Company entered into a one -year lease agreement
+Added: for 9,050 square feet from Gault in Beaufort, South Carolina for $ 1,000 per month until a new facility is completed.
+Added: On February 3, 2023,
+Added: the lease with Gault was renewed for $ 1,500 per month until February 2024.
+Added: offices and facility of TOBC are located in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada and are on land which was leased to TOBC for approximately
+Added: $ 2,500 per month plus taxes, from Steve and Janet Atkinson, the former TOBC owners, under a lease that expired December 1, 2021.
+Added: 1, 2022, TOBC entered into a new five-year lease with Steve and Janet Atkinson for CAD$ 2,590 per month plus taxes and paid CAD$ 23,310
+Added: for rent for the year ended December 31, 2022 and an additional five-year lease with Kathryn Atkinson, spouse of TOBC’s President,
+Added: for CAD$ 2,370 per month plus taxes and paid CAD$ 21,330 for rent for the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: Both leases are renewable for two
+Added: additional five-year terms.
and equipment lease expenses were approximately $ 168,000 and $ 63,500 for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
−Removed: has reached a settlement agreement with a former employee.
+Added: Company has reached a settlement agreement with a former employee.
Although the agreement is not finalized the Company has reserved $ 70,000 ,
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government has made available a booster of the COVID-19 vaccine to continue the fight against the pandemic.
−Removed: The Company’s sales and supply continue to be adversely affected due to COVID-19 and plans continue to be developed to ensure a
−Removed: prompt response is given to address the effects of the pandemic.
+Added: The Company’s sales and supply were adversely affected due to COVID-19, during 2021 and 2022.
+Added: recognized impairment losses on goodwill and long-lived assets for Coastal
+Added: Pride and TOBC due to the lower forecasted revenues and gross losses recognized in the year ended December 31, 2022 as a result of the effect of the
+Added: COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s business.
Employee Benefit Plan
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Subsequent Events
−Removed: January 24, 2022, the Company issued a total of 125,000 shares of common stock to investors upon the exercise of warrants for total proceeds
−Removed: of $ 250,000 .
−Removed: Seafood Asset Acquisition
−Removed: February 3, 2022, Coastal Pride entered into an asset purchase agreement with Gault Seafood, LLC, a South Carolina limited liability
−Removed: company (the “Seller”), and Robert J.
−Removed: Gault II, President of the Seller (“Gault”) pursuant to which Coastal Pride
−Removed: acquired all of the Seller’s right, title and interest in and to assets relating to the Seller’s soft shell crab operations,
−Removed: including intellectual property, equipment, vehicles and other assets used in connection with the Business.
−Removed: Coastal Pride did not assume
−Removed: any liabilities in connection with the acquisition.
−Removed: The purchase price for the assets consisted of cash in the amount of $ 359,250 and
−Removed: the issuance of 167,093 shares of common stock of the Company with a fair value of $ 359,250 .
−Removed: Such shares are subject to a leak-out agreement
−Removed: pursuant to which the Seller may not sell or otherwise transfer the shares until February 3, 2023.
−Removed: Pride also entered into a consulting agreement with Gault under the terms of which Gault will provide consulting services to Coastal
−Removed: Pride at the rate of $ 100 per hour, however, the first 45 days of services will be provided at no cost.
−Removed: Gault also agreed not to compete
−Removed: with Coastal Pride and its affiliates for a period of five years in any market in which Coastal Pride is operating or is considering
−Removed: operating or solicit employees, consultants, customers or suppliers or in any way interfere with Coastal Pride’s business relationships
−Removed: for a five-year period, Gault is also bound by customary confidentiality provisions.
−Removed: The consulting agreement may be terminated by either
−Removed: party upon five days written notice and by Costal Pride immediately for cause.
−Removed: connection with the asset acquisition, Coastal Pride will lease 9,050 square feet from Gault for $ 1,000
−Removed: per month under a one-year lease agreement and
−Removed: will continue to operate the acquired soft shell crab operations at such location in Beaufort, South Carolina unless a new facility is
−Removed: earlier completed.
−Removed: January 1, 2022, the Company entered into a verbal month-to-month lease agreement for its executive offices with an unrelated third party.
−Removed: The Company has paid $ 11,600
−Removed: to date on this lease.
−Removed: and Greco Notes – Subordinated
−Removed: February 1, 2022, principal outstanding amounts and accrued interest of up to $ 66,553 under the subordinated note with Walter Lubkin
−Removed: Jr., and the subordinated convertible notes with Walter Lubkin III, Tracy Greco and John Lubkin were paid off by the Company.
−Removed: Global Fund II LP investment
−Removed: January 24, 2022, we entered into a securities purchase agreement with Lind Global Fund II LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Lind”),
−Removed: pursuant to which the Company issued to Lind a secured, two-year, interest free convertible promissory note in the principal amount of
−Removed: $ 5,750,000 and a five-year warrant to purchase 1,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company at an exercise price of $ 4.50 per share,
−Removed: subject to customary adjustments.
−Removed: The warrant provides for cashless exercise and for full ratchet anti-dilution if the Company issues
−Removed: securities at less than $ 4.50 per share.
−Removed: In connection with the issuance of the note and the warrant, the Company paid a $ 150,000 commitment
−Removed: outstanding principal under the note is payable commencing July 24, 2022, in 18 consecutive monthly installments of $ 333,333 , at the
−Removed: Company’s option, in cash or shares of common stock at a price (the “Repayment Share Price”) based on 90% of the five
−Removed: lowest volume weighted average prices (“VWAP”) during the 20-days prior to the payment date with a floor price of $ 1.50 per
−Removed: share (the “Floor Price”), or a combination of cash and stock provided that if at any time the Repayment Share Price is deemed
−Removed: to be the Floor Price, then in addition to
−Removed: the Company will pay Lind an additional amount in cash as determined pursuant to a formula contained in the note.
−Removed: connection with the issuance of the note, the Company granted Lind a first priority security interest and lien on all of its assets,
−Removed: including a pledge on its shares in John Keeler & Co.
−Removed: Inc., its wholly-owned subsidiary, pursuant to a security agreement and a stock
−Removed: pledge agreement with Lind, dated January 24, 2022.
−Removed: Each subsidiary of the Company also granted a second priority security interest in
−Removed: all of its respective assets.
−Removed: note is mandatorily payable prior to maturity if the Company issues any preferred stock (with certain exceptions described in the note)
−Removed: or, if the Company or its subsidiaries issues any indebtedness other than certain amounts under the current line of credit facility with
−Removed: Lighthouse Financial Corp.
−Removed: The Company also agreed not to issue or sell any securities with a conversion, exercise or other price based
−Removed: on a discount to the trading prices of the Company’s stock or to grant an investor the right to receive additional securities based
−Removed: on future transactions of the Company on terms more favorable than those granted to Lind, with certain exceptions.
−Removed: on the earlier of July 24, 2022 or the effectiveness of the registration statement covering Lind’s shares, if the Company fails
−Removed: to maintain the listing and trading of its common stock, the note will become due and payable and Lind may convert all or a portion of
−Removed: the outstanding principal at the lower of the then current conversion price and 80 % of the average of the 3-day VWAP during the 20 days
−Removed: prior to delivery of the conversion notice.
−Removed: a resale registration statement is not effective covering the shares of common stock issuable to Lind in 180 days following January 24,
−Removed: 2022, the note will be in default.
−Removed: Lind was also granted piggyback registration rights.
−Removed: the Company engages in capital raising transactions, Lind has the right to purchase up to 10 % of the new securities.
−Removed: note is convertible into common stock at $ 5.00 per share, subject to certain adjustments, at any time after the earlier of six months
−Removed: from issuance or the date the registration statement is effective;
−Removed: provided that no such conversion may be made that would result in
−Removed: beneficial ownership by Lind and its affiliates of more than 4.99 % of the Company’s outstanding shares of common stock.
−Removed: are issued by the Company at less than the conversion price, the conversion price will be reduced to such price.
−Removed: a change of control of the Company, as defined in the note, Lind has the right to require the Company to prepay 10 % of the outstanding
−Removed: principal amount of the note.
−Removed: Company may prepay the outstanding principal amount of the note, provided Lind may convert up to 25 % of the principal amount of the note
−Removed: at a price per share equal to the lesser of the Repayment Share Price or the conversion price.
−Removed: Note contains certain negative covenants, including restricting the Company from certain distributions, stock repurchases, borrowing,
−Removed: sale of assets, loans and exchange offers.
−Removed: an event of default as described in the note, the note will become immediately due and payable at a default interest rate of 125 % of
−Removed: the then outstanding principal amount.
−Removed: Upon a default, all or a portion of the outstanding principal amount may be converted into shares
−Removed: of common stock by Lind at the lower of the conversion price and 80 % of the average of the three lowest daily VWAPs.
+Added: January 2023, the Company sold an aggregate of 474,106 shares
+Added: of common stock for net proceeds of $ 182,982 in
+Added: an “at the market” offering pursuant to a sales agreement between the Company and Roth Capital Partners, LLC.
+Added: 31, 2023, 151,284
+Added: of shares were repurchased back from Roth for $ 76,463 .
+Added: The offering was terminated on February 2, 2023.
+Added: On January 31, 2023, the Company issued
+Added: 1,273,408 shares of common stock to Lind with a fair value of $ 662,172 as payment of $ 340,000 of
+Added: note principal due on the convertible promissory note.
+Added: February 10, 2023, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Aegis Capital Corp.
+Added: (the “Underwriter”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell to the Underwriter, in a firm commitment public offering,
+Added: (i) 8,200,000 shares of common stock for a public offering price of $ 0.20 per share and (ii) pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-funded
+Added: Warrants”) to purchase 800,000 shares of common stock (the “Warrant Shares”), for a public offering price of $ 0.199
+Added: per Pre-funded Warrant to those purchasers whose purchase of common stock in the offering would otherwise result in the purchaser, together
+Added: with its affiliates and certain related parties, beneficially owning more than 4.99% (or, at the election of the holder, 9.99%) of the
+Added: Company’s outstanding common stock immediately following the consummation of the offering.
+Added: The Company also granted the Underwriter
+Added: an over-allotment option to purchase up to 1,350,000 shares of common stock.
+Added: The Pre-funded Warrants have an exercise price of $ 0.001
+Added: The Pre-funded Warrants were issued in registered form under a warrant agent agreement between the Company and VStock Transfer,
+Added: LLC as the warrant agent.
+Added: offering closed on February 14, 2023 with gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $ 1.8 million, before deducting underwriting
+Added: discounts and other estimated expenses payable by the Company.
+Added: The offering consisted of 9,000,000 shares of common stock and Pre-funded
+Added: Warrants to purchase common stock at a price of $ 0.20 per share (or $ 0.199 per Pre-funded Warrant after reducing $ 0.001 attributable
+Added: to the exercise price of the Pre-funded Warrants).
+Added: 2023, the Company issued an aggregate of 6,197,240
+Added: shares of common stock to Lind with a fair value of $ 1,081,058 as payment of $ 754,800
+Added: of note principal due on the convertible promissory note.
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