Seafood Expo North America

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Boston, USA
MARCH 10-12, 2024

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.


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April 17, 2023

Mexico City, Mexico-based Atarraya, the creator of the Shrimpbox portable shrimp-farming systemis seeking USD 25 million (EUR 22.7 million) in a Series B fundraising round.

Atarraya markets its Shrimpbox – essentially a shipping container that has been converted into a small commercial shrimp farm – as a shrimp-in-a-box systems that allows for economical, low-impact, hyper-local shrimp farming. The company’s U.S.

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April 6, 2023

The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent challenges of keeping workers safe and on the job in seafood processing plants led to a push for further automation in processing.

Now, three years on from the pandemic, the challenges may have shifted a bit, but BAADER North America CEO Nils Rabe told SeafoodSource the processing sector's labor issues haven’t gone away. 

“Lots of the issues remain the same,” Rabe said. “Labor is

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April 4, 2023

New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based East Coast Seafood and Saint John’s, Newfoundland, Canada-based Whitecap International Seafood have formed a marketing partnership with the goal of developing innovative products for sale in North America.

The alliance grew out of a complementary overlap of the companies’ priorities and a shared desire to expand their value-added seafood offerings, according to East Coast Seafood CEO Bob

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March 30, 2023

It may be impossible to phase out the use of all plastics in food delivery, according to Netherlands-based Solidus Solutions Sales Manager Joaquín Sucunza. But it is possible – even practical – to reduce the use of plastics in many products, including seafood items.

Based in the Netherlands, Solidus operates 17 plants and five paper mills across Europe, including a large presence in Spain and the U.K. It produces packaging

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March 28, 2023

Oceanside, California, U.S.A.-based Lotus Seafood is opening a new processing plant in Indonesia that will implement a proprietary treatment for tuna that enhances coloration without the use of carbon monoxide (CO).

Because it can hide degradation of fish quality, CO-treated tuna is banned by Japan, the E.U., and Canada, though it is still allowed in the United States.

“It’s just a question of two years or five years of when it will

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March 27, 2023

Northport, Alabama, U.S.A.-based Harvest Select nearly closed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Facing a shortage of employees and an upside-down market for its channel catfish, the company struggled to find a path forward, Harvest Select CEO Randy Rhodes told SeafoodSource at the 2023 Seafood Expo North America.

“I don’t give up to easy, I don’t think I’ve ever given up – I always fight back,” Rhodes said.

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March 27, 2023

Fish International Sourcing House (FISH) CEO Alvin Loy has been in the seafood industry for 23 years, and has run his own business for 18 of those.

Now doing around USD 100 million (EUR 93 million) in annual sales, Loy has grown the Singapore-based seafood importer, processor, and exporter into a multinational corporation, with processing facilities producing more than 24,000 metric tons of seafood in Singapore, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia,

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March 22, 2023

Del Pacifico Seafoods’ newest product, its Mayan Octopus, is caught off the coast of Yucatan, Mexico using small dayboats that fit just one or two fishermen, who use the wind and tide to drift-fish and attract the species with a crab lure on a bamboo pole.

It’s certainly not the most efficient means of catching octopus, according to Del Pacifico Chief Commercial Officer Jennifer Barrett. But the company’s support of the fishery

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March 17, 2023

The scallop market will be hard to predict in 2023 as supplies stay flat and demand becomes the main influence on pricing pressure, Northern Wind CEO Ken Melanson told SeafoodSource.

Melanson, addressing the topic at the 2023 Seafood Expo North America, on behalf of his New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.A. company, said scallop prices haven’t followed their typical trajectory given the flat supply. 

“We’ve had those

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March 17, 2023

The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) launched multiple new pilot projects with High Liner Foods, Chicken of the Sea Frozen Foods, and Publix Super Markets to design and test the use of universal fishery IDs.

The project, announced in an event at the 2023 Seafood Expo North America, will be partially funded by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The SFP is working with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to create

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