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Antwerp, Belgium-based food-processing machinery firm Steen said that recent trade disruptions stemming from U.S. tariffs have caused some of their American buyers to hold off on new deals.

“After the tariffs were announced, some people who [verbally] committed to buying from us said they were, instead, going to hold off and see how things play out,” Steen International Sales Manager Laurenz Seesing told SeafoodSource at the 2025

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Vertically integrated fishing company Reunimer, which operates in the Indian Ocean waters off Madagascar and the French island of Réunion, has consolidated four of its subsidiaries under one group name in order to build better brand recognition. Reunipeche and Reunion Pelagique – which specialize in fresh pelagic fish – Réunion Pêche Australe – which specializes in toothfish – and Madagascar Seafood – which specializes in demersal… Read More

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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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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Hand-picked lobster meat, lobster cakes, lobster crostini, lobster mac and cheese, lobster dip, lobster toast, and stuffed lobster tail all signal one thing: Phillips is all in on lobster.

These products, some of which Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.-based Phillips Foods already offers, some of which are on the way, and some of which have only gone through initial ideation stages, are the result of the company's recent move into the lobster

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Disruptions to global trade that have arisen since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in early 2025 have forced importers and exporters around the globe to strategize and adapt.

As a firm that both buys and sells internationally, Taiwanese seafood firm Yen and Brothers has had to deftly navigate the quickly changing economic landscape, Yen Chief Operating Officer Chihting Yen told SeafoodSource at the 2025 Seafood Expo North

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FMI – The Food Industry Association released its seventh annual Power of Seafood report on 17 March at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America.

The most recent edition of the report highlighted that seafood continues to struggle to find solid footing at U.S. retail post-Covid.

According to the report, in 2024, the category was able to maintain the loyalty of frequent seafood shoppers – or those who consume seafood at least two times per

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Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the longstanding Chevron deference – a legal precedent stemming from the 1980s that gave federal agencies wide latitude in interpreting congressional statutes.

That move, according to Robert Smith, a partner at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based law firm K&L Gates, could turn the U.S. seafood industry into a more litigious environment in the near future.

“In the short term, you are

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