Seafood Expo North America

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 rise of pescatourism through her website and

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, hyper-local shrimp farming. The company’s U.S.

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 remain the same,” Rabe said. “Labor is

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 offerings, according to East Coast Seafood CEO Bob

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 presence in Spain and the U.K. It produces packaging

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 question of two years or five years of when it will

Northport, Alabama, U.S.A.-based Harvest Select nearly closed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Facing a shortage of employees and an upside-down market for its channel catfish, the company struggled to find a path forward, Harvest Select CEO Randy Rhodes told SeafoodSource at the 2023 Seafood Expo North America.

“I don’t give up to easy, I don’t think I’ve ever given up – I always fight back,” Rhodes said.