Expo News

East Coast Seafood won the 2019 “Best New Foodservice” Seafood Excellence Award for its Lobster Macaroni & Cheese Bites, and St. James Smokehouse was awarded the “Best New Retail” prize for its Saint Pure Salmon at Seafood Expo North America on Sunday, 17 March.

Topsfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based East Coast Seafood is the world’s largest distributor of live and frozen North American lobster. Its Lobster

Ace Aquatec introduces in-water stunner at Seafood Expo North America

Ace Aquatec will be exhibiting its in-water fish stunner at Seafood Expo North America, taking place 17 to 19 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

The Dundee, Scotland-based aquaculture technology supplier, which also manufactures predator control, biomass measurement, and offshore marine life protection equipment, is introducing its Humane Stunner Universal at the expo.

At the opening of the 2019 Seafood Expo North America today in Boston, Massachusetts, SeaWeb, and Diversified Communications announced the 17 finalists in the running for 2019 Seafood Champion Awards.

Representative of a diverse cross-section of individuals, governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and seafood companies from around the world, this year’s finalists “exemplify the incredible work being

It was a weekend of hard work for global seafood product suppliers and processing vendors, who arrived in Boston, Massachusetts in anticipation of this year’s Seafood Expo North American/Seafood Processing North America event, taking place from 17 to 19 March. 

Considered to be the largest seafood event in North America, the expo saw 1,329 exhibitors from 49 countries in attendance at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for

Legit Fish, a Boston, Massachusetts-based traceability company, is launching a new traceability technology at Seafood Expo North America. 

The company, which has partnered with the BASE Auction Company, is unveiling its new tool on 17 March at their SENA19 booth, 289. According to a release from the company, the system will enable vessels to “hail quantities into the auction that can be sold via a real-time cloud-based platform, with

Former Bonamar Corporation executive Alex Cook has joined Coral Springs, Florida-based seafood supplier Sea Delight Group as its new sales management executive, the company announced on 11 March. 

A seafood industry veteran of more than 17 years, Cook most recently served as the senior vice president and chief marketing officer for Miami, Florida-based Bonamar. In his new role with Sea Delight, Cook will work to build out the

Just over eight months since the start of a trade war between China and the United States, the Maine lobster industry is still coping with the affects of a 25 percent tariff on their goods. 

Maine had been on track to more than double the value of exports to China, with USD 87 million (EUR 76.9 million) worth of the crustacean being sold through June 2018, compared to roughly half that value through the same period in 2017. However, once

Antarctic salmon supplier Sixty South is investing in the construction of a new hatchery, to be located 45 kilometers north of Porvenir, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, the company announced on 14 March. 

The state-of-the-art facility will allow Sixty South to produce 12 million smolts of 120 grams per year, amounting to three million every quarter, the firm said in a press release. The hatchery will be entirely indoors, promoting greater control

The Hellenic Aquaculture Producers Organization (HAPO), which is representative of approximately 80 percent of Greece’s aquaculture industry, aims to actively promote its Fish From Greece brand to the North American market this month at Seafood Expo North America, taking place in Boston, Massachusetts from 17 to 19 March. 

The privately-owned non-profit, which consists of 21 Greek seafood farmers, will be “demonstrating its

Camanchaca Inc. – the U.S. division of Chilean seafood company Camanchaca S.A. – is unveiling a new organic mussel at Seafood Expo North America, which kicks off on 17 March and runs to 19 March at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts. 

The new product, Gourmet Organic Mussels, will be launched under the company’s Pier 33 Gourmet Brand and represent the first certified organic Chilean mussel