Expo News

Published on
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

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Published on
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

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Published on
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

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Published on
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

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Published on
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

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Published on
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

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Published on
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

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Published on
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.

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Published on
March 17, 2023

To keep track of product launches both inside and outside of Seafood Expo North America, SeafoodSource has compiled a list of some of the products and technologies that debuted in March 2023.

- ThisFish has debuted new processing technology created in collaboration with Orca Specialty Foods. The partnership developed a waterproof camera to capture fish-fillet images and a machine-learning

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Published on
March 15, 2023

The U.S. Federal Reserve raising interest rates has caused banks to pull back on financing, and that means merger and acquisition activity will slow in the coming quarters, according to a panel of financial experts, speaking during Seafood Expo North America.

The panel, on 14 March at SENA in Boston, Massachusetts, agreed higher interest rates and an uncertain economic situation will lead banks

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