Seafood Expo Global
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.
Agen, France-based seafood group Mericq has continued its acquisition streak with the purchase of Mariscos Wildomar.
Founded in 2008 by William Goulay and Henry Izquierdo, San Sebastián, Spain-based Mariscos Wildomar is shellfish specialist concentrated on the Spanish and French markets.
“The team saw in the company of Mariscos Wildomar, a major ally with exceptional know-how, [an avenue] to continue its international
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Steen International Sales Manager Lourenz Seesing believes the global seafood industry needs to pay more attention to health and food safety issues.
“It's a big issue and a big topic at the moment,” Seesing told SeafoodSource at the 2023 Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, Spain on 27 April.
The Antwerp, Belgium-based processing-equipment manufacturer, which is part of the F.P.M. International family of companies, has 17 employees and
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Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) has officially launched its new salmon welfare scorecard.
The Godalming, England-based non-governmental organization’s Fish and Welfare Program, which advocates for improved fish welfare in the commercial aquaculture sector, hosted a booth at the 2023 Seafood Expo Global – which ran from 25 to 27 April in Barcelona, Spain – in order to give it a platform to announce the soft launch of
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Icelandic shipping company Eimskip has seen demand grow for both its cargo liners and its freight-forwarding service, and the company expects that to continue in 2023.
The company runs multiple cargo liners in the North Atlantic, offering services to Portland, Maine U.S.A.; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Argentia, Newfoundland, Canada; Iceland; the Faroe Islands; the United Kingdom; Scandinavia; the Baltics; and the Mediterranean. Its
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China’s demand for caviar is increasing thanks to a combination of factors, including the Covid-19 pandemic.
Fu Wenyang, the general manager of Sichuan Runzhao Sturgeon Import and Export, the maker of Frosista Caviar, told SeafoodSource during Seafood Expo Global – which ran from 25 to 27 April in Barcelona, Spain – that the company’s main market is still the U.S., followed by Germany. But in the last few years, the
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For Australia-based rock lobster company Geraldton Fishermen’s Cooperative, certification to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard is a credential that “underpins” the company and the fishery.
Geraldton Fishermen’s Cooperative CEO Matt Rutter, speaking to SeafoodSource during Seafood Expo Global – which ran from 25 to 27 April in Barcelona, Spain – said MSC certification has been a key goal of the
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Saudi Arabia has greatly increased its aquaculture output in the last few years, and now the country is working to help expand markets for its new products.
The country’s National Livestock and Fisheries Development Program is helping with that effort, and the organization hosted a pavilion at Seafood Expo Global – which ran from 25 to 27 April in Barcelona, Spain – for the first time. The ultimate goal of hosting the
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The growth of China's domestic seafood market is leading Hainan Xiangtai Fishery Co. to begin looking for new species to sell.
Established in 2004, Hainan Xiangtai is a full-chain aquaculture producer of tilapia, golden pompano, shrimp, and pangasius. The company has hatchery, fish farming, feed, and processing facilities, allowing it to go from egg to final product, and across its operations it employs over 2,000 people.
Hainan Xiangtai
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The 2023 Seafood Expo Global attracted more than 33,000 seafood professionals through its three-day run in Barcelona, Spain – an increase of 24 percent over the 2022 show.
This year’s event, which ran from 25 to 27 April, also set a record for most exhibiting companies, at 2,078, and most exhibition space occupied, at 49,339 net square meters.
Diversified Communications USA President Liz Plizga said this year’s expo
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For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic shut down exports, Chinese crayfish is available to international buyers, and it's in high demand, according to Kang Sun Yu, the general manager of Zhejiang, China-based Tianhe Aquatic Company.
Tianhe Aquatic is a producer and marketer of crayfish, and Kang said the product has become more popular across China as well as in Europe and the United States, especially among the Chinese diaspora living
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