Seafood Expo North America / Seafood Processing North America
Boston, USA
7-9 March, 2027
The Seafood Marketplace for North America
Seafood Expo North America attendees meet with thousands of suppliers to find the newest fresh, frozen, and packaged seafood products and stay current on industry trends.
Seafood Processing North America attendees share ideas, find new processing equipment, make connections and get the news on preparing, delivering and packaging seafood products.
If you are a seafood professional in the North American market, this is a must-attend event.
Learn more about the upcoming edition by visiting the event website.
An on-demand video of “Seafood Industry-led Efforts to Address the Deadliest Form of Marine Plastic Debris” is available free for SeafoodSource Premium members and for USD 350 (EUR 308) to non-members through the Complete Digital Ticket: Seafood Expo North America 2025.
Featuring Global Ghost Gear Initiative (GGGI)/Ocean Conservancy Corporate Partnerships Manager Sara Pfeifer, Starkist Head of Global Sustainability Matt Hall,
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Tom Zaffiro, the CEO of Braintree, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based seafood-processing company Channel Fish, is largely unshaken by the uncertainty currently facing the U.S. seafood industry.
Uncertainty, Zaffiro told SeafoodSource at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America, held 15 to 18 March in Boston, Massachusetts, is part of any lasting business’s story.
“The company has been around since 1946, and before I was born, we faced a
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TV personality and James Beard award-winning Chef Andrew Zimmern said all it took was one great sentence from the Seafood Nutrition Partnership (SNP) for him to sign on to its mission.
Speaking during a panel session at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America covering SNP’s recent efforts to promote seafood consumption, Zimmern said the organization’s singular purpose was one he could fully support and was one of the main motivators for
… Read MoreAuthentica’s “microscopic passport” limiting fraud, misrepresentation in global seafood supply chain
Supply chain risk management firm Authentica is using an ingredient as simple as baker’s yeast to bolster food safety and risk management in the global seafood supply chain.
Authentica Founder and CEO Mike Borg told SeafoodSource at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America, which took place 16 to 18 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., that importers, distributors, and anyone else who receives food products in their final packaged form
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High costs of entry, coupled with permitting barriers and the difficulty of maintaining modern fishing vessels, has the U.S. seafood industry’s workforce at an inflection point.
Ocean Strategies Principal Brett Veerhusen, speaking at a panel during the 2025 Seafood Expo North America – which ran from 16 to 18 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – said the average age of a fisherman in the U.S. is increasing thanks to a
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Primetime Seafood President and Owner Rex Ito, a more than 30-year veteran of the bluefin tuna industry, has been a part of its shift from constantly changing supplies and quality to providing a consistent product year round.
Ito told SeafoodSource at Seafood Expo North America, which ran from 15 to 18 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., that he began his career selling wild caught tuna, and now works in ranched tuna produced by Bluefina,
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Hsiang-Hsiu Hung, the manager of Tainan, Taiwan-based seafood company Fisherman’s Hometown International, is trying to spread the word to Western markets about a fish that is little known outside of Asia: milkfish.
Milkfish gets its name from the whitish color of its scales, and is a popular cuisine staple in Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and other Asian countries.
Though the fish might be little known in Western markets, to Hung, it
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Vlasis Tsezos has held many roles in his 25-year career, including time spent as an electrical engineer, a lieutenant in the Greek Marine Corps, and an Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud data specialist.
But, it was his time spent as a management consultant, where he worked with food companies to optimize their value chains, that sparked the idea to co-found Athens, Greece-headquartered food traceability software firm Agritrack in
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Land-based yellowtail kingfish farmer The Kingfish Company, headquartered in Kats, Netherlands, came to the 2025 Seafood Expo North America (SENA) with a clear goal: Build a market for a little-known fish species that has huge potential.
“We [started out] selling an unknown product," CEO Vincent Erenst said. "So, we are building the market bit by bit, box by box, all over Europe.”
Erenst has held executive roles across
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