Seafood Expo Global

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Barcelona, Spain

23-25 APRIL 2024

The Global Seafood Marketplace 

Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global is the largest seafood event on the planet, serving industry professionals and buyers from all corners of the supply chain and world. If you purchase seafood for your business, you simply cannot afford to miss this event.

Learn more about the upcoming edition by visiting the event website.


Published on
May 2, 2022

Seafood companies around the globe have faced a drastic shortage of workers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its ripple-effects.

Even though many countries are beginning to ease off their more-stringent COVID-19-pandemic-related restrictions, the seafood industry is reported a continued struggle with a scarcity of labor.

“We have gotten through COVID to the greatest extent, and I think a lot of processers and

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Published on
April 29, 2022

Maldives-based Ensis has debuted a new value-added skipjack product intending to showcase the quality of the country’s pole-and-line caught tuna.

The new product, Skipjack Seared Tuna, features frozen pole-and-line caught, Marine Stewardship Council-certified tuna from the Maldives. The product, Ensis General Manager Hussain Afeef told SeafoodSource during the 2022 edition of Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, Spain, showcases the quality

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Published on
April 28, 2022

The global seaweed industry, which represents over 30 million metric tons (MT) of aquaculture production annually, is in need of innovation to thrive, an expert with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said during the ongoing 2022 Seafood Expo Global conference program in Barcelona, Spain ...

Photo by Chris

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Published on
April 28, 2022

European Association of Fish Producers Organizations President Esben Sverdrup Jensen has called for the revision of parts of the European Union’s Common Fishery Policy to simplify the transition of the E.U.’s fishing fleet to using cleaner fuels.

With the price of conventional fuels soaring in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, Sverdrup Jensen said the E.U. should relax limits on boat capacity “because vessels that use

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Published on
April 27, 2022

Kalynivka, Ukraine-based Ukrharchpromkomplex is the sole company from the country exhibiting at Seafood Expo Global, running from 26 to 28 April in Barcelona, Spain.

The company’s sparse exhibit booth reveals its current situation – instead of the salmon, whitefish, cod, and other products it would typically display, all Ukrharchpromkomplex General Manager Oleg Bilodid could bring to the show was a banner featuring the

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Published on
April 27, 2022

The aquaculture feed sector is seeing the development of new inputs with the potential to improve the sustainability and availability of its product. While these new innovations can contribute to meeting the needs of a growing population, the buzz around such opportunities overshadows the importance of – and innovation in – traditional inputs like fishmeal, which still holds the greatest potential to efficiently deliver a

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Published on
April 26, 2022

Pescanova España and GlobeXplore took the top prizes in the 2022 Seafood Excellence Global awards at Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, Spain on 26 April, 2022.

Pontevedra, Spain-based Pescanova won the Best Retail Product grand prize for its Salmon Noodles, a protein-based pasta that the competition’s judges commended for its flavor, texture, appearance, and package design. Rosporden, France-headquartered GlobeXplore, which won the

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Published on
April 26, 2022

Public appreciation that oceans provide essential protection to both the planet and humanity is growing, according to Chris Gorell Barnes, co-founder of private equity firm Ocean 14 Capital. 

The entrepreneur, marine conservationist, and co-founder of the Blue Marine Foundation said “tremendous trigger-points,” which include documentaries like Blue Planet II and Seaspiracy, as well as reports from the United

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Published on
April 26, 2022

Seafood industry professionals from around the world are arriving in Barcelona, Spain this week for the 28th edition of Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global, ready to reconnect face-to-face after more than two years apart.

Formerly hosted in Brussels, Belgium, the expo comes to its new home in Barcelona with the same mission it’s always had: to provide “unparalleled access to the most expansive offering of every type of

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Wynter Courmont

Published on
April 21, 2022

Next week, seafood industry professionals will convene in Barcelona, Spain for the 28th edition of Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global, the world’s largest seafood trade event. We look forward to reconnecting in-person with those of you attending the expo at its new home, Fira de Barcelona’s Gran Via exhibition venue, from 26 to 28 April, 2022.

The industry’s excitement is palpable for the move to Barcelona from

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