Again, that was a serendipitous thing. One of the principals in the company at the time had a friend in Panama. It was cheaper to acquire the facility, or to at least lease the facility for R and D, than it would have been to build a brand new facility from scratch in either Canada or the United States.
The advantage of Panama also is its geographic isolation and the fact that there is no indigenous Atlantic salmon population. The waters in that area are basically a biological barrier, just through lethal water temperature.