Cliff White

Tai Foong USA is building its business around U.S. consumers’ growing desire for restaurant-quality seafood snacks that are easy to cook at home.

“Everyone is busy nowadays. Everyone has parents or caretakers who are working; no one has enough time to put food on the table. It's getting harder and harder to find time to cook, and it's expensive to go out to eat. But, people want food that is appealing and ready to serve

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Ecuador’s Sustainable Shrimp Partnership celebrated its sixth anniversary at the 2024 Seafood Expo North America.

Launched at SENA in March 2018, the collaboration between Ecuadorian shrimp producers was intended to give the industry a pre-competitive platform to improve the country's reputation as a source of safe and sustainable shrimp. SSP’s founding members were Grupo Almar, Grupo Camaronero Champmar,

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Gigante Salmon has terminated its contract with CEO Helge E.W. Albertsen after an updated cost estimate revealed it would take an additional NOK 350 million (USD 32.5 million, EUR 30.1 million) to complete its land-based, flow-through Atlantic salmon farm on an island of Rødøy,… Read More

Separate reports from the Corporate Accountability Lab, the Associated Press, and the Outlaw Ocean Project investigating labor and food safety issues in India’s shrimp sector have elicited a vociferous response from the seafood industry at large. Sysco, Great American Seafood, Rich Products,… Read More

Rancho Cucamonga, California, U.S.A.-based Aquamar is branching out further from its surimi base.

At the 2024 Seafood Expo North America, Aquamar introduced “Shellfish Innovations” – a range of refrigerated products modeled after traditional dishes from Italy and Spain. The line includes Wild Red Shrimp in Lobster Sauce; Baby Clams with Garlic; Seafood Medley in Seafood Sauce; Mixed Seafood in Tomato Broth;

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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada-based East Cape Oyster Company produced four million oysters in 2023.

Founded in 2016, East Cape Oysters began shipping product five years ago. It now has three brands – Sand Dune Select Oysters, Northern Belle Select Oysters, and Gowanbrae Select Oysters – and has a full packing and shipping operation that reaches customers across North America.

“Every oyster takes on qualities of

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Josh Farinella is a former general manager at Kerala, India-based shrimp processor and exporter Choice Canning. He was recently featured by the Outlaw Ocean Project as the source of allegations of labor abuse at Choice Canning’s Amalapuram facility. Farinella recently filed formal whistleblower complaints with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and several other federal agencies.

SeafoodSource: How did you end up working at Choice

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Separate reports from the Corporate Accountability Lab, the Associated Press, and the Outlaw Ocean Project published on 20 March have painted a grim portrait of India’s shrimp industry.

The report from the Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL), a nongovernmental organization dedicated to addressing “the failure of domestic and international legal regimes to hold companies accountable for abuses in their global supply chains,”

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Jacob Jose is the vice president of sales and procurement at Choice Canning, the operator of the Tastee Choice seafood brand and a subsidiary of The Choice Group, a shrimp processor and exporter based in Kerala, India. In an interview with SeafoodSource, Jose, who represents the third generation… Read More

DNV and Ocean Sovereign are advancing plans to launch the Ocean Ark, a vessel equipped with offshore aquaculture capabilities. The Ocean Ark is able to travel up to 4 knots on its own and is also able to be towed by a tugboat. It is capable of farming up to 3,900 metric tons of salmon, trout,… Read More