Seafood Blog
Learn more about the Food Export - Northeast Seafood Program including industry trends, current news, and future activities in our new Seafood Blog!
For more information contact Colleen Coyne, Seafood Program Coordinator ccoyne@foodexport.org
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See a couple of the ways Food Export - Northeast is working to help grow the taste for American Lobster and Jonah Crab in Taiwan.
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In 2020 Food Export-Northeast has sought the help of Emily Lane, President of Blue Lobster Consulting, LLC. to help increase marketing efforts for American Lobster and Jonah Crab. Learn more about her in this blog.
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Food Export - Northeast has developed a Jonah Crab Buyers Guide to help increase education on this emerging species in US Northeastern waters.
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In this article learn how Food Export-Northeast has utilized some of the funding received from the Agricultural Trade Promotion Program (ATP), a USDA FAS effort designed to help US agricultural exporters develop new markets and mitigate the adverse effects of other countries’ tariff and non-tariff barriers.
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Food Export–Northeast plans to host its annual March Seafood Buyers Mission as a virtual event from March 22-25, 2021. Find out more about the upcoming event!
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To help build awareness for American lobster products in overseas markets we have developed an online interactive go-to resource for international seafood buyers.
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As 2020 comes to a close we wanted to share our work on behalf of the Northeast US seafood industry and its impact on the sector.
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Food Export–Northeast has secured a stand at the Taiwan International Fisheries & Seafood Show being held at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center in December 2020. The stand will be staffed by Food Export–Northeast’s In-Market Representative for the Taiwan market who will be promoting Northeast US seafood products.
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Food Export – Northeast hosted its first Virtual Seafood Buyers Mission through meetings on Zoom in late September. The mission including 120 zoom meetings between 17 Northeast US seafood suppliers and 19 buyers participating from all around the world.
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Food Export–Northeast is once again organizing and hosting a seafood pavilion for Northeast U.S. seafood suppliers at the upcoming Seafood Expo Global show in Barcelona Spain. Learn more about the upcoming event in this article.
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This blog is an interview with Kate Snipes, Agricultural Counselor for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) office in France. We discussed her unique role in promoting Northeast US seafood products in France, how she advises us on seafood trade relations and market trends, and how the French market has been affected by the pandemic.
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Food Export–Northeast recently engaged our Chinese market In-Market Representative to develop and host a chef seminar series. The first of this 6 part chef seminar series took place in Shenzen.
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Learn more about how Food Export-Northeast participated in the newly established Seafood Trade Task Force: a federal interagency body created by Presidential Executive Order to develop a strategy that provides the U.S. seafood industry with fair and reciprocal trade opportunities in foreign markets
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Food Export–Northeast held webinars and live Q&A sessions for our In-Market Representatives to help educate them about processed lobster and Jonah Crab.
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Find out all about the annual Seafood Buyer’s Mission that Food Export-Northeast will be hosting as a virtual event between September 21 and 24, 2020.
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We recently created an industry overview video that showcases the people, places, products, organizations and harvesting practices that make Northeast US seafood trusted suppliers of high quality, safe and sustainable seafood to markets worldwide.
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To introduce Northeast US seafood, specifically American lobster and scallops, to Hong Kong chefs, Food Export-Northeast recently partnered with the US Agricultural Trade Office (ATO) Hong Kong to participate in a virtual chef seminar.
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Learn how to promote your seafood products overseas with a variety of Food Export–Northeast programs and services.
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Recently, Food Export–Northeast partnered with Wenzhou Pullman Panjin Oriental Ginza - a hotel in Wenzhou, China - to create a special menu promotion featuring Northeast US scallops and American lobster.
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As foreign markets begin to reopen after coronavirus, Food Export–Northeast is ramping up seafood promotions to reclaim markets and to develop new markets. To help demonstrate the value of these promotions, we wanted to take you behind the scenes and show you what these promotions look like.
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