March 7, 2023 — Seafood Expo North America / Seafood Processing North America returns to Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. this Sunday, and we look forward to reconnecting face-to-face with those of you who can attend.
Taking place from 12 to 14 March at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, there is a lot for you to see and do at the 2023 edition of the largest gathering of seafood professionals in North America.
March 7, 2023 — The following was released by Seafood Nutrition Partnership:
Seafood Nutrition Partnership (SNP) is pleased to announce that Sarah Crowley has joined the organization as Vice President of Marketing and Communications. Sarah is an experienced marketing professional who began her career at Hill, Holliday advertising agency and went on to lead marketing teams at major national brands including Fidelity Investments, Staples, specialty meats company Kayem Foods and responsible grass fed beef company Verde Farms. SNP is very excited to tap into her retail and brand marketing experience to drive SNP’s mission to communicate the public health benefits of seafood and to encourage US consumers to eat seafood at least two times a week per the U.S. Dietary Guidelines. Sarah will spearhead the national seafood promotion campaign initiative in collaboration and input from the NSC Task Force and SNP stakeholders.
March 2, 2023 — The 2023 Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global is set to become the world’s largest seafood trade expo.
This year’s event will return to Fira de Barcelona’s Gran Via 25 to 27 April, 2023 and will feature, to-date, more than 49,000 net square meters of exhibit space, breaking the event’s record for the largest edition in the expo’s history. It will be 23 percent larger than the 2022 show, according to Portland, Maine, U.S.A.-based Diversified Communications, which operates the event. [Editor’s note: Diversified Communications also owns SeafoodSource.]
February 3, 2023 — Seafood Expo North America, also known as the Boston Seafood Show, may be nearing a return to pre-pandemic times.
Prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, and the subsequent cancellation of the event in 2020 and 2021, the Boston Seafood Show had attracted more than 22,000 seafood industry professionals from around the world. While the event finally made its return last year, it was a different experience than previous years. Some companies chose to attend but not exhibit, others cut down on full culinary and demo booths, and some, who were still under strict travel restrictions, decided not to attend at all. Less than two weeks out from the show, event organizers Diversified Communications reported that they were at 70% of the size of the 2019 event with 830 exhibiting companies in over 180,0000 sf of exhibit space.
January 13, 2023 — Deadliest Catch, the reality television series that follows crab fishermen aboard fishing vessels will return next April, despite the red king crab season being closed by Alaskan authorities.
The reality television series that premiered on the Discovery Channel on April 12, 2005, and has been the base for a series of spinoffs will enter its 19th season this year. But the decision by the Alaskan Department of Fish and Game to close both the red king crab fishery and the Bering Sea snow crab fishery raised doubts about the viability of the show.
The show follows crab fishermen aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the crab fishing seasons. The base of operations for the fishing fleet is the Aleutian Islands port of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Produced for the Discovery Channel, the show’s title is derived from the inherent high risk of injury or death associated with this line of work.
The show emphasizes the dangers on deck to the fishermen and camera crews as they duck heavy crab pots swinging into position, maneuver hundreds of pounds of crab across a deck strewn with hazards, and lean over the rails to position pots for launch or retrieval, while gale-force winds and high waves lash the deck constantly.
Deadliest Catch draws consistently high ratings for Discovery Channel; season 3 attracted more than 49 million viewers throughout the season and over 3 million viewers per first-run episode, making it one of 2007’s most successful programs on cable TV. Overall ratings for Deadliest Catch have always been good enough for the show to be renewed.
January 10, 2023 — Sometime in the 1970s, once a week every week, along the narrow streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a fish truck came around. It came to neighborhoods of North and West Philly, their brick row houses one room wide, set tight against each other right along the sidewalks; some houses with a little grass and trees, some with concrete; some with porches, some just with steps on which people can sit and talk.
The fish truck stayed gone, but in the Philly neighborhoods, the fresh fish came back. An outfit called Fishadelphia buys fish from the New Jersey docks, then drives it to a high school in North Philly where it’s packed into coolers, which people take home to their own porches, where neighbors pick up their assigned fish. Fishadelphia’s founder and executive director is Talia Young, whose PhD is in ecology, who’s a visiting assistant professor in environmental studies at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and whose goal in life has never been to sell fish.
“I’m sort of a scientist,” she says. “I’m not doing science but I can. I’m an academic by default, I’m a teacher for sure, I’m sort of an activist, and technically I’m a business person but I know nothing about it.”
So why is she selling fish? “I’ve spent my professional life figuring out how to occupy a space that includes the environment, science, and social justice,” Young says. Scientists don’t usually combine science with activism, worrying that the combination would undermine a reputation for unbiased research. Young, however, has only ever cared about finding the nexus between her three interests and, she says, “Fishadelphia is the closest I’ve come.”
January 6, 2023 — Two processing vessels, owned by Phoenix Processors Limited Partnership (PPLP), the M/V Excellence and the M/V Phoenix, have achieved the FISH Standard for Crew Certification.
The vessels operate as American flagged vessels in the Alaska pollock and Pacific whiting fisheries.
January 3, 2022 — Scientists often find oddities on the seafloor, but NOAA researchers were baffled when a camera dropped off Maine landed on top of a large propeller 100 miles from shore.
No shipwreck, mind you. Just the propeller “lying among the rocks, sea stars, and sea anemones.”
The mystifying discovery was made in the Gulf of Maine, as the fishing vessel Mary Elizabeth was participating in a NOAA Fisheries seafloor survey.
December 29, 2022 — The 2022 Seafood Expo North America, which took place 13 to 15, March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., and the 2022 Seafood Expo Global, 26 to 28 April, 2022, 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 featured exclusive information and insight from seafood industry experts, including economic forecasts and analysis on the trends and topics impacting the global seafood industry as it navigates issues of trade, food safety, traceability, aquaculture, sustainability, and consumption trends. Now, a video recording of each of these sessions is available for on-demand replay.