Seafood Expo North America / Seafood Processing North America

Atlantic Sapphire is working on growing large, healthy salmon at its Miami, Florida-based RAS as the company transitions from startup to salmon farmer.

After years of work and a few shortfalls, Atlantic Sapphire is transitioning from a startup with lofty goals for eventually farming salmon in a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) in Miami, Florida, U.S.A. to a producer of salmon that’s being served to customers. 

Atlantic Sapphire

Just over five years ago, Mowi launched the “Mowi” brand in the U.S. after changing its name from Marine Harvest effective 1 January 2019.  

The name harkened back to its roots, as the company was originally founded as Mowi more than five decades before the name change. The company later launched its Mowi brand in the U.S. on 20 March 2020 as part of a push to de-commoditize salmon in the global market and develop stronger brand

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

Spanish tuna company Balfegó is preparing to inaugurate a new processing and office facility in Spain in time for the 2025 Seafood Expo Global, taking place this year in Barcelona, Spain, from 6 to 8 May.

Balfegó catches bluefin tuna in May and June each year and then ranches the fish in farms off the coast of L'Ametlla, Spain. The company then feeds its fish a specific diet depending on customers’ needs and harvests them

Silwanus, an Indonesian migrant fisher, was working aboard the Marine Stewardship Council-certified (MSC) Taiwanese distant-water vessel Chang Yi No. 368 in 2024 when a refrigerator door slammed shut during a big wave and severed his fingertips. 

“My fingers are gone. If help would have been there right away, maybe my fingers would not be lost,” he told SeafoodSource through translator Truly Walean during the 2025 Seafood

Vertically integrated seafood company Cooke Inc. – which owns and manages a range of seafood subsidiaries across the globe – is continuing to emphasize species and market diversification as it builds resiliency in global markets. 

Cooke was founded in 1985 by the eponymous family as a small aquaculture company in Blacks Harbor, New Brunswick, Canada. Since that time, it has grown into the largest private family-owned

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

Novi, Michigan, U.S.A.-based warehousing and logistics provider Lineage said its expertise in bonded storage has prepared the company to support the seafood industry during this period of uncertainty, which has been driven by rapidly changing tariffs and food safety requirements.

Bonded warehouses allow their customers to store goods under customs supervision, thus avoiding paying duties and taxes till the product leaves the warehouse for