The SeafoodSource editorial team is on site at the 2009 European Seafood Exposition. Here's the latest news and gossip from the show floor.
9:55 a.m. - The weather in Brussels isn't particularly cheery (it's 13 degrees Celsius and rainy). But the atmosphere at the Brussels Exhibition Grounds is - visitors and exhibitors from across the globe poured into the facility to meet and greet, buy and sell seafood, and everything in between.
10:30 - Cathy Armstrong, president of Certified Clam Corp. in Highlands, N.J., talked to SeafoodSource about her company's sustainable hardshell clams. Certified Clam was the only U.S. seafood exporter to be invited to last week's Trade Winds Pan European Conference in Warsaw, Poland.
10:50 - Three Alaska politicians made the trip to Brussels to check out the three-day event and to mark Alaska's 50th anniversary with the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. All three are commercial fishermen - Rep. Bill Thomas of Haynes, Rep. Bob Herron of Bethel and Sen. Lyman Hoffman, also of Bethel.
11:10 - The Marine Stewardship Council announced that Andrew Mallison has joined its London-based staff as the standards and licensing director. Previously, Mallison worked a marine technologist with the British retailer Marks & Spencer.
11:20 - Scotland Fisheries Minister Richard Lochhead was spotted in the Scottish Pavilion talking to show visitors and exhibitors.
11:30 - In the Australian Pavilion, Western Australia Fisheries Minister Norman Moore was also chatting it up with show visitors and exhibitors.
11:45 - Daniel Silva, commercial coordinator of SudMaris Chile SA, talked to SeafoodSource about his company's blue mussels, the world's first mussels to be certified organic by the third-party certifier Naturland. The Chilean company, which operates rope-grown mussel farms and processing plants in Chiloe Island, received the certification at the end of 2008 and is trying to boost its mussel exports to the European Union and the United States.
April 28, 2009
