Zurich, Switzerland-based Regal Springs tilapia producer announced at the 2023 Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, Spain the upcoming launch of two new products, exclusively for the U.S. market under its own brand, the beer batter-coated tilapia, and a panko coating.
These products are the first to be marketed as Regal Springs products, and there already has been interest in private labels, Regal Springs Head of Marketing and Media Relations
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Reykjavik, Iceland-based Icelandic Asia offered a special tasting of its new capelin roe-based beer at the 2023 Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, Spain, which ran from 25 to 27 April.
The beverage, Masago Premium Lager, is brewed from capelin roe, and was brewed especially for the event and not yet available for sale.
The company first provided samples of
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SeafoodSource is closely following the sustainable seafood movement by compiling a regular round-up of sector updates pertaining to eco-certifications.
- The Aquaculture Stewardship Council announced on 4 May it has reached the milestone of 1,000 small-scale group farming cooperatives having received ASC certification. These include Indonesia-based PT Central Protein Prima Farm Group, which operates 560 Pacific white shrimp farms;
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Inabata & Co., an Osaka, Japan-based frozen food manufacturing and processing company, announced the start of a trial of new frozen sushi products at the 2023 Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, Spain.
“There’s frozen pizza, there’s frozen pasta, why not frozen sushi? That’s the first thing that came into our minds.” Inabata Food Business Development Manager Fubuki Ozaki told SeafoodSource. “When you
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To keep up to date with movement and job shifts across the seafood industry, SeafoodSource is compiling a regular round-up of the latest industry position-shift updates.
-Baton Rouge, Louisiana U.S.A.-based Louisiana Fish Fry Products announced former Dallas Cowboy and current ESPN analyst Marcus Spears has been hired as its new chief fry officer. The supplier of Louisiana-style breading, batters, boiled seasonings, sauces, and spices has hired
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After hitting near all-time highs, Norwegian salmon prices have started to ease.
According to the Nasdaq Salmon Index, the weighted average index of weekly sales prices of fresh Atlantic superior salmon, head-on gutted – reported by a panel of Norwegian salmon exporters and salmon producers – decreased to NOK 110.08 (USD 10.22, EUR 9.24) per kilogram in the seventeenth week of 2023.
That represents an average price decrease of
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In 2019, before the Covid pandemic hit, Zhuanghe, China-based Dalian Hengjia Food Co. released its new ready-to-eat seafood product line.
The subsidiary of Beijing-based Billion Fish Group was finally able displayed the product line outside of China at the 2023 Seafood Expo Global, which ran from 25 to 27 April, in Barcelona, Spain. The line consists of pre-packaged cooked shrimp, seaweed, scallops, and squid tentacles, with sauce
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Ioakim Diamantidis received the nickname "Diopas" serving in the Hellenic navy in the 1950s. Once he finished his military service, Diamantidis started work crafting fishing nets in his village in Michanioa, Greece.
Nearly 70 years later, Diopas’ son, daughter-in-law, and three grandchildren continue his legacy by running and operating Thessaloniki, Greece-based Diopas S.A.
“Our grandfather started the company selling small
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The Mazzetta Company is dealing with the theft of hundreds of cases of its Oishii brand of shrimp allegedly stolen from a trailer outside of the Lineage Logistics cold-storage facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A on 27 April, 2023.
According to Mazzetta Company Vice President of Operations Joe Chekouras, the seals were cut on the company’s third-party carrier trailer, and 450 cases of 13-15 count shrimp were removed from their
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The Kaly Group, an investment group focused on sustainable aquaculture initiatives, said on 27 April, it has begun the licensing processes for a commercial-scale kelp farm in Loch Bay, off Scotland's Isle of Skye.
The project has the backing of Tricapital Angel Investors and the Scottish Enterprise, it said in a press release. The Scottish Institute for Marine Sciences and the James Hutton Institute will partner with the Kaly Group to
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