Seafood Expo Global / Seafood Processing Global

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Barcelona, Spain

23-25 APRIL 2024
The Global Seafood Marketplace 

Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global is the largest seafood event on the planet, serving industry professionals and buyers from all corners of the supply chain and world. If you purchase seafood for your business, you simply cannot afford to miss this event.

Learn more about the upcoming edition by visiting the event website.


Published on
March 27, 2019

For 30 years, Rosporden, France-based company GlobeXplore has been working to redefine what is possible for the world’s edible algae and seaweed sector. 

Founded in 1986 by Christine Le Tennier, the company began by specializing in trading and export management before evolving to focus on the production and distribution of food algae and seaweed products in the 1990s. Today, GlobeXplore has four distinct brands that it promotes across

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Published on
May 10, 2018

Open Blue Cobia recorded a strong showing at the 2018 Seafood Expo Global event with the launch of a new range of frozen cobia products and its capture of a Seafood Excellence Global Award.

The 2018 Seafood Excellence Global special prize for convenience was awarded to Open Blue for its frozen, individually vacuum-packed, sashimi-grade cobia fillet. A panel of retail and foodservice seafood buyers and industry experts selected Open Blue as the

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Published on
April 26, 2018

A very big, but little-known species is now being marketed in Europe.

The Peruvian Pavilion hosted a culinary demonstration of

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Published on
April 26, 2018

Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based Trident Seafoods and its German subsidiary, Pickenpack Seafoods, are bringing new deep-skin, value-added pollock products to the European

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April 26, 2018

Chile, which only started mussel farming in the late 1990s, is now the largest exporter of mussels in the world. In 2017, it exported more than 76,000 metric tons

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April 26, 2018

San Diego, California, U.S.A.-based AFT Holdings said it will withdraw its direct investment in the U.S.-flagged fleet of ocean-going tuna seiners this year, citing punitive government regulations.

AFT Holdings is the largest shareholder of The Global Companies, which operates the South Pacific Tuna Corporation. The corporation currently owns and operates 12 vessels in the Pacific tuna fishery,  which collectively have an annual harvest of

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April 26, 2018

Government officials and nonprofit leaders from Argentina gave a review of their ongoing fisheries improvement project at Seafood Expo Global 2018, and announced that they hope to pursue Marine Stewardship Council certification for Argentine red shrimp by the end of 2019. 

Fished by both near-shore and off-shore vessels, landings of Argentine red shrimp have been steadily increasing over the past several years. The 2017 catch was among

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Published on
April 26, 2018

GlobalG.A.P., a certification program that ensures sustainability in the entire supply chain of aquaculture projects, announced at Seafood Expo Global 2018 that it has created a non-genetically modified add-on in collaboration with VLOG e.v.

The new add-on is designed to allow producers that already meet GlobalG.A.P. standards to more quickly get the “VLOG seal,” which signifies that the producer has been certified as not using any

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Published on
April 26, 2018

A panel of key industry members, NGOs, and Marine Stewardship Council officials met on 25 April to discuss what the future has in store for the MSC. 

MSC CEO Rupert Howes was on hand to discuss the future of the program and the challenges it will need to face – and is already facing – after over 20 years of existence. Key to the discussion was the United Nation’s framework known as Sustainable Development Goals, and how

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Published on
April 26, 2018

A meeting between stakeholders in the Indian shrimp exports market to the European Union and E.U. officials at Seafood Expo Global on Wednesday, 25, April, resulted in a clearer picture in regard to how the E.U. will handle inspection rates moving

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