Seafood Blog

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learn how to promote your seafood products overseas with a variety of Food Export–Northeast programs and services.

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.

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.

As Chinese interest in Northeast US seafood grows and prices remain affordable for consumers, Food Export–Northeast’s In-Market Representative for China and Hong Kong, has come up with a number of innovative ways to promote these seafood products.

This article is an interview with Food Export - Northeast In-Market Representative Alexander Wever about his recommendations for effective seafood marketing in Germany and other Northern European countries.

Find out more about the recent announcement that Northeast US Lobster suppliers are now able to export to Brazil.

Food Export–Northeast’s In-Market Representatives serve as supplier eyes and ears on the ground when exploring export opportunities in various international markets.

Food Export–Northeast is sharing an interview series with In-Market Representatives from three different Asian countries. This article is about our IMRs in Taiwan.

Food Export–Northeast is sharing an interview series with In-Market Representatives from three different Asian countries. This article is about our IMRs in Korea.

Food Export–Northeast is sharing an interview series with In-Market Representatives from three different Asian countries. This article is about our IMR in Vietnam.