Expo News
The 2025 edition of Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America (SENA/SPNA), which ran from 16 to 18 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., drew an estimated 20,000 seafood industry professionals over the three-day, span, producer Diversified said.
The 43rd edition of the event covered 249,665 net square feet of exhibit space with 1,215 exhibiting companies from 51
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Fable Fish Co-Founder Meghan Luck was inspired to produce her award-winning salmon jerky while working in the Alaskan wholesale business.
“We saw literally hundreds of tons of really beautiful, filleted fish go and be used as byproduct and sold as a commodity," Luck told SeafoodSource at Seafood Expo North America, held March 15 to 18 in Boston, Massachusetts. "[This fish is]
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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
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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
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Nor’Easter Oyster Company founders Jacqueline Clarke and Sean Corcoran began their value-added oyster company by trying to solve a problem they had noticed aquaculture producers in the U.S. state of Maine struggling with: what to do with oysters that were too large, clustered, or too misshapen for the raw bar market?
Or, in other words, what should the industry do with what Clarke and
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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