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.
The talk of caviar companies at the 2023 Seafood Expo Global was a U.S. proposal to institute a blanket ban on the product – even if it was raised via aquaculture.
The proposal in question was first posted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on 25 May, 2022. The central tenant of the proposal is reclassifying four species of sturgeon as endangered species: Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), ship sturgeon (A. nudiventris),
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Varkaus, Finland-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) company Finnforel launched a new brand of rainbow trout fillets it has dubbed “LOHI” (pronounced Low-high), a play on words that encompasses the company’s goals with its new product.
The name and branding – which means salmon in Finnish – also highlights the low carbon emissions and environmental impact, and high protein of the product. The company
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Porbander, Gujarat, India-based Salet Group is finally getting back to where it was before the Covid pandemic hit in 2020.
A family-owned seafood exporter specializing in cephalopods, Salet Group handles about 7,000 metric tons of seafood per year, according to its CEO, Sumit Salet. In the decade prior to the pandemic, Salet Group had built up its international business, but Covid was a setback, he acknowledged
“We are doing well
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Ukraine-based Ukrkharchopromcomplex, the sole exhibitor from the country at Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, Spain, has had a more eventful year than most.
In 2022, the Kalynivka, Ukraine-based company attended Seafood Expo Global – the first ever edition of the show in Barcelona – with nothing but a Ukrainian flag and a binder full of pictures of the company’s cold storage facilities on fire. At the onset of
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Since its entry into the European market, Lineage Logistics has rapidly acquired additional companies and resources in a push to become a complete logistical solution in the region.
Lineage has had a presence in the U.S. and at Seafood Expo North America in the past, but the 2023 edition of Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global in Barcelona, Spain was the first time the company had a presence at the Europe-based trade show.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve has long targeted 2 percent inflation in its economic policy, but that era could be coming to an end, according to Kroll Institute Global Chief Economist Megan Greene.
Greene delivered the keynote address at the 2023 Seafood Expo Global on 26 April, 2023, dedicating much of her talk to addressing the seafood industry’s concerns over inflation.
The conference program at this year’s expo includes more
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Finefish has formed a marketing partnership with Norwegian brown trout farmer Sirdals Ørret and Arctic char farmer Telemarkrøye.
The Fosnavåg, Norway-based vertically integrated company, which operates two fishing vessels and a processing facility, will use its marketing and sales team to sell the premium-quality farmed products from both aquaculture operations and its logistics team to get their fish to market, according to
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Fukuoka, Japan-based Marinet Co. recently developed Kotaro’s Sushi Kits, allowing consumers to purchase a frozen sushi rice and salmon analog that excluxively uses trout.
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Harikai also initally
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The Seafood Ethics Action Alliance (SEA Alliance) has initiated a campaign asking labor ministers in countries that have not yet ratified the ILO Working in Fishing Convention 188 (C.188) to push their governments to do so.
The SEA Alliance is a seafood industry pre-competitive collaboration whose members include 11 of the largest supermarket chains in the United Kingdom, collectively representing 95 percent of all retail seafood sales in the
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The Seafood Excellence Global Awards winners’ circle expanded on 25 April to include Unima Distribution and Vičiūnai Group.
Spain’s Vičiūnai Group claimed the Best Retail Product prize for its Black Sepia Dumplings with Shrimp and Thai Broth Filling, while Best Hotel/Restaurant/Catering (HORECA) Product went to France’s Unima Distribution for its Organic Body-Peeled Madagascar Shrimp. Both companies accepted their prizes at
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