Expo News
Mark Blyth, a professor of international economics at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, will deliver the keynote address at the 2024 Seafood Expo North America, taking place 10 to 12 March at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
The expo’s three-day conference program will include a slate of more than 30
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The 2024 edition of Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America – the largest seafood event in North America – will continue the show's growth trajectory in its 42nd edition.
The event, running from 10 to 12 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. is currently slated for 244,965 net square feet of exhibit space and is still growing, event organizer Diversified
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The 2023 Seafood Expo North America, which took place 12 to 14 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., and the 2023 Seafood Expo Global, from 25 to 27 April, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain, featured a comprehensive conference program of live panel events focusing on topics chosen to be of vital interest to the seafood industry.
The 28 individual presentations from SENA and the 21 sessions from SEG
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The 2023 Seafood Expo North America, which took place 12 to 14 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., and the 2023 Seafood Expo Global, from 25 to 27 April, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain, featured a comprehensive conference program of live panel events focusing on topics chosen to be of vital interest to the seafood industry.
The 28 individual presentations from SENA and the 21 sessions from SEG
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During the Seafood Expo North Amerca/Seafood Processing North America – which ran from 12 to 14 March, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts – SeafoodSource partnered with Emily De Sousa, the CEO of digital educational platform Seaside with Emily, who joined SeafoodSource as a social media correspondent.
De Sousa promotes sustainable seafood, healthy oceans, culinary adventures, and the
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Mexico City, Mexico-based Atarraya, the creator of the Shrimpbox portable shrimp-farming system, is seeking USD 25 million (EUR 22.7 million) in a Series B fundraising round.
Atarraya markets its Shrimpbox – essentially a shipping container that has been converted into a small commercial shrimp farm – as a shrimp-in-a-box systems that allows for economical, low-impact,
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The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent challenges of keeping workers safe and on the job in seafood processing plants led to a push for further automation in processing.
Now, three years on from the pandemic, the challenges may have shifted a bit, but BAADER North America CEO Nils Rabe told SeafoodSource the processing sector's labor issues haven’t gone away.
“Lots of the issues
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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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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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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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