Expo News

The Seafood Excellence Awards, held on Sunday, 6 March 2016 at Seafood Expo North America, will celebrate the best new seafood products in the North American seafood market.

Contestants compete in two categories: Best New Retail Product and Best New Foodservice Product. Then, seafood industry experts judge the new products based on several criteria, including: uniqueness and appropriateness to the market, taste profile, packaging, market

A lot goes into deciding what kind of seafood offerings should be featured on a given retailer’s shelves. After all, the search for quality products is a process, and a meticulous one at that – buyers must examine all angles, from sustainability and traceability to cost and ethics. They must consider every person and entity occupying the supply chain and crucially, every person who stands at the chain’s end.

Ultimately, it’s those

Nine seafood companies from Nova Scotia, Canada have joined together to jointly represent the industry from their home province at Seafood Expo North America, taking place 6 to 8 March in Boston.

Exhibiting companies from Nova Scotia who will be jointly exhibiting at booth #1333 at SENA include Bluenose Seafood, Clearwater Seafoods, Fisher King Seafoods, Louisbourg Seafoods, Sea Star Seafoods, St. Mary’s River Smokehouses, Top Claw Lobster

Seven Ecuadorian shrimp farming companies will be present at Seafood Expo North America 2016, taking place 6 to 8 March in Boston, Mass.

The companies who will exhibit at SENA are Edpacif, Expalsa, Langosmar Organic, Negocios Industriales Real NIRSA, Omarsa, Quirola Group and Sociedad Nacional de Galápagos SONGA. Representatives from each of these companies will be stationed at booth 633 for those interested in learning more about their

Imported frozen tuna produced by Chicken of the Sea Frozen Foods (COSFF) under its Asian Gold brand has been endorsed by FishWise by way of the Monterey Bay Program.

At the start of Q4 in 2016, yellowfin and bigeye tuna imported from Indonesia and sold by COSFF will be caught utilizing pole/troll methods – a technique regarded by the scientific community as highly-sustainable with a low bycatch rate.

The endorsement will serve to reassure

Seafood Analytics will highlight its Certified Quality Reader’s (CQR) approach to validating seafood quality at the upcoming Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America (SENA) event, taking place in Boston, Mass. from 6 to 8 March.

Introduced at SENA 2015, the CQR method has gained traction in the industry since its debut, according to Seafood Analytics. As of now, the company is in talks with a number of major grocery chains

Regal Springs, a vertically integrated tilapia producer, will support the nonprofit SeaShare through a taco bar at its booth display at Seafood Expo North America, taking place 6 to 8 March in Boston.

The company will host a grilled fish taco bar featuring its lake-grown tilapia along with tortillas, salsa and toppings. For every taco sampled at SENA, Regal Springs will donate 5 lbs. of its tilapia to SeaShare, a nonprofit dedicated to

True World Foods, a supplier of seafood with an Asian focus, will host a tuna-cutting demonstration at Seafood Expo North America, taking place 6 to 8 March in Boston.

The demonstration will take place at the True World Foods booth (#1953) at 11 a.m. on Monday, 7 March. (A video of True World Foods’ similar demonstrations can be found here).

Also at the expo, True World Japan will showcase its Tsukiji Express brand, providing door-to-door

Celebrated Scottish chef Mark Greenaway will be on hand with the Seafood from Scotland team showcasing premium farmed and caught seafood products at this year’s Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America event, held in Boston from 6 to 8 March.

Greenaway will manage the Seafood from Scotland seafood bar, applying modern cooking techniques to the preparation of species such as Scottish haddock, salmon, trout, langoustines,

Vitsab, a labeling company with U.S. operations based in Winslow, Maine, will introduce a time temperature label at Seafood Expo North America 2016, taking place in Boston 6 to 8 March.

Vitsab’s new label, the Shellstock TTI (time temperature indicator), monitors the cold chain from harvest to consumption and offers a clear indication of temperature control to indicate seafood shipments are safe from botulism and vibrio contamination, said