Seafood

Larry Avery is a man who sees opportunity where others may see only a meal. And he will create opportunities while bringing decades of business-building acumen and branding savvy to the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board as its new seafood processor representative. …

Sweetbay Supermarket has introduced a new sourcing policy for all of its seafood products which ensures that all seafood sold in its stores is harvested in a way that guarantees its future availability. …

The Gulf of Maine shrimp fishing season came to an end late Friday night with a whimper. This year’s harvest will go down as the smallest since 1978, when the fishery was shut down altogether. …

At the European Seafood Exposition, which takes place in Brussels from 23 to 25 April 2013, the packaging specialist MULTIVAC is showing machine models, which make it easy for speciality businesses to automatically pack both fresh and frozen fish and seafood as well as ready-to-eat fish meals. High-pressure processing of food (HPP) will also be shown. …

A huge, lucrative and increasingly controversial scheme to certify ‘sustainable’ fish has taken another broadside from researchers. …