Union, New Jersey, U.S.A.-based D’Artagnan, a protein supplier to restaurants across the United States, has added a variety of sustainable and organic seafood offerings to its product lineup.
“This expansion is in direct response to consumer’s growing culinary sophistication and interest in responsibly sourced proteins being conveniently delivered to their homes,” the purveyor said in a press release.
During the early months of the pandemic, D’Artagnan partnered with a local fish purveyor to "support their business and provide our customers the convenience of home delivery on a range of grocery items," according to D’Artagnan President Andy Wertheim.
“Seafood was so popular we wanted to make it a permanent addition to our offerings, specifically for our website customers," Wertheim said.
All of the seafood the company sells is certified sustainable, fair trade, or organic by “gold-standard international watch groups,” D’Artagnan said. All of its seafood is flash-frozen at sea immediately after catch, or soon after on shore, and then it is individually portioned.
Its new offerings include farmed organic jumbo black tiger shrimp, which is European Union organic- and Best Aquaculture Practices-certified and contains no additives, preservatives, or antibiotics. The supplier is also offering farmed Norwegian salmon certified to GlobalG.A.P.- and Aquaculture Stewardship Council standards.
Its domestic-sourced offerings include Marine Stewardship Council-certified wild Alaskan salmon, line-caught red grouper from the Gulf of Mexico, pink snapper that is rod-and-reel caught in Hawaii, and wild jumbo dry sea scallops from New England are dry-packed, and never treated with additives or preservatives, according to the company.
D’Artagnan also sells BAP- and GlobalG.A.P.-certified king turbot farmed in Spain, Chilean sea bass, and North Atlantic cod, and its swordfish isline-caught and sourced from the Mediterranean Sea, the company said.
Photo courtesy of D’Artagnan
