Privately-owned Cooke Inc. (‘Cooke’), parent company of Cooke Aquaculture Inc. has upped its stake proposal to purchase the Tasmanian salmon farmer Tassal Group Limited. Tassal is a vertically integrated salmon and prawn grower and processor for the Australian domestic markets and for exportations, employing over 1,700 people. Cooke Inc. has Atlantic salmon farming operations in Atlantic Canada, the US, Chile, and Scotland; seabass and seabream farming operations in Spain; seafood …