Seafood Expo North America / Seafood Processing North America
Boston, USA
MARCH 16-18, 2025
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.
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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The Global Shrimp Council (GSC) launched its first global shrimp marketing effort at 2025 Seafood Expo North America (SENA) in Boston, Massachussetts, U.S.A., unveiling its Happy Protein campaign.
The GSC, an independent, pre-competitive non-profit organization for shrimp industry stakeholders, hired Miguel Barcenas, architect of the Avocados from Mexico campaign, to mastermind the design of its new marketing strategy, which brands shrimp
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Miami, Florida, U.S.A.-based St. James Smokehouse debuted multiple new products at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America (SENA) – which ran from 16 to 18 March – including a cold smoked steelhead trout and a future salmon product made using trimmings from its smoked royal fillet.
The company’s new Saint Pure Steelhead Trout features new packaging and trout sourced from Mar Andino, a company that farms its fish in the South
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Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A.-based Beaver Street Fisheries’ partnership with NASCAR’s Ty Dillon started organically.
“I really like Ty Dillon,” Beaver Street Fisheries Executive Vice President and co-owner Mark Frisch told SeafoodSource at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America in Boston, Massachussetts, U.S.A.
Beaver Street is a vertically integrated company which operates a wholesale business as well as subsidiaries Sea
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The geoduck fishery in British Columbia, Canada is bracing for the start of China’s 25 percent tariffs on shellfish on 20 March, which could completely upend the market.
China announced the tariffs on 8 March, hitting a range of Canadian goods, including Canadian shellfish. Geoduck is included in that higher tariff – and according to Underwater Harvesters Association Executive Director Grant Dovey, they came as a surprise
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Bayou La Batre, Alabama, U.S.A.-based oyster-farming firm Murder Point Oysters is trying to change the way people think about oysters from the Southern United States by aiming to satisfy the palates of Americans across the nation, rather than just the firm’s home region.
To further that goal, Murder Point made its premiere appearance at Seafood Expo North America during the event’s 2025 edition, taking place in Boston, Massachusetts,
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Rancho Cucamonga, California, U.S.A.-headquartered Aquamar, a surimi and ready-to-eat seafood company, brought Michelin-starred sushi chefs and internationally-known Big Wave surfers to Seafood Expo North America (SENA) as part of their Sushi’s Next Big Wave campaign.
Aquamar CEO Daryl Gormley told the crowd gathered in SENA’s Wave Maker Zone the campaign began with his own experience learning the history of the iconic American
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Iceland-based salmon-farming firm Arnarlax is making progress on its goal to reach 26,000 metric tons (MT) of Atlantic salmon production within a few years.
Arnarlax CEO Björn Hembre told SeafoodSource during the 2025 Seafood Expo North America – running from 16 to 18 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – that the company is determined to reach its production goal after a 2024 that was marked by biological challenges.
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The current trading environment in the seafood industry is incredibly complicated and unpredictable, but Nomi Prins, the keynote speaker at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America (SENA), said the long-term trends are still positive for seafood.
Prins, a macro-economist, geopolitical finance expert, and best-selling author, kicked off SENA’s conference program by highlighting the many different headwinds the seafood industry had to
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Icy Waters and American Unagi were declared the winners of the 2025 Seafood Excellence Awards at Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Bedford, New Hampshire, U.S.A.-based Icy Waters won the Best New Retail Product award for its Atlantic Salmon with a Guinness Sweet Honey Mustard Melt & Pank Crumb, created in collaboration with Good Fish Co. of Ireland. Featuring the iconic flavor of
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