A new set of tools to be announced next week by CEI aims to integrate Maine's seafood industry into food distribution systems in the Northeast and tap the trend of consumers wanting more locally sourced food.
"Many Maine companies are adding value to marine resources, and it isn't widely known, especially outside Maine," said Hugh Cowperthwaite, directory of the fisheries project for community development organization CEI's office in Portland. Cowperthwaite discussed the two-year project Thursday at the Northeast Aquaculture Conference & Exposition at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland.
The tools, available on CEI's website, include lists of seafood in season and at what time of the year, where seafood products can be bought in Maine, who processes and adds value to Maine seafood, who transports Maine seafood by truck, who in Maine uses cold storage or freezers for seafood, who sources Gulf of Maine seafood from the Portland Fish Exchange and who is farm-raising Maine seafood. All of the information came from public data sources.
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