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Seafood News from Canada
European Seafood Exposition Edition
April 2006
In this issue:
Canada at the European Seafood Exposition
Canada’s presence at other European seafood
events
Trade Opportunities
CANADA AT THE EUROPEAN SEAFOOD EXPOSITION
Brussels, Belgium – May 9-11, 2006
Preparations are well underway for the Canadian pavilion at the European
Seafood Exposition 2006. This year’s pavilion will feature 21
booths representing 23 companies and government agencies from across the
country! We will be located in the Patio section of the show, stand
number 4522, 4527 and 4509. A Canadian chef will be on hand to showcase
exhibitors’ products, so visitors will be able to sample the excellent
variety and quality of Canadian seafood.
We would also like to take this opportunity to invite you to the pavilion
for a ‘coast to coast to coast seafood celebration’ on Wednesday May 10th
from 16:00 to 18:00. Meet Canadian exhibitors and speak with industry
representatives. Experience the very best of Canadian quality, taste
and innovation and see for yourself why Canada remains a world seafood
leader. After all . . . Quality is in our nature.
The following Canadian companies will be present at the Canadian Pavilion:
Agriculture & Agrifood Canada – Get
the updated Seafood Buyers Guide for 2006
Atlantic Canada Lobster & Seafood Promotions
Group - Promotes Atlantic Canada lobster and other shellfish internationally
Barry Group Inc. - American lobster, coldwater
shrimp, snow crab, mackerel, herring, capelin, frozen-at-sea redfish and
Greenland halibut; saithe and cod; lumpfish roe; aquaculture products
(Atlantic salmon and steelhead trout)
BC Salmon Marketing Council - Promotion
of wild BC salmon including - chinook, coho, sockeye, pink and chum. Fresh,
frozen, canned and smoked.
British Columbia Seafood - Promotion of
BC seafood products including a full range of fresh, frozen and value-added
products such as salmon, halibut, sablefish, albacore tuna, herring, sardines,
hake, turbot and other groundfish species, plus oysters, clams, urchin,
geoduck, crab, shrimp and prawns
Business New Brunswick - Promotion of NB
seafood products: Lobster - live and full line of frozen products: coldwater
shrimp (Pandalus borealis), herring, smoked herring, snow crab, American
eel, rock crab, cultured oysters (Crassostrea virginica) and prepared
seafood dishes.
Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance / Canadian
Mussels Limited – Prince Edward Island mussels and information
on the Canadian aquaculture industry
Canadian Fishing Company - Fresh/Frozen
wild salmon – headed and gutted fillets, portions; smoked wild salmon;
salmon caviar; frozen-at-sea black cod (sablefish); herring roe; herring
roe on kelp; sardines; hake (Pacific whiting)
Canadian Malin Fisheries - Live lobster,
snow crab, scallops, sea cucumber, skate wings, monkfish, dogfish, pelagics,
groundfish, squid
Connors Brothers - BRUNSWICK®, BUMBLE
BEE® and BEACH CLIFF® brands of canned sardines, canned herring,
canned tuna, canned salmon. Other specialty items including mackerel,
shrimp, crab, clams, oysters and mussels
Great Northern / Seafoodexport - cod, haddock,
hake, flounder, halibut, capelin herring , mackerel, scallops, crab, shrimp
and salted fish including cod, hake, Pollock saithe, and haddock
H & H Seafood - live and cooked lobster
as well as processed lobster meat. Also Atlantic halibut, haddock, mackerel,
herring, scallops, crab and turbot.
Island Fisherman Co-Operative Association
- Port Royal brand of cooked and peeled shrimp
Kiku Fisheries Corp - Fresh sea urchin
roe, frozen sea urchin roe, sea urchin caviar, "Uni Jan" Uni Maki
Newfoundland & Labrador Seafood – Promotion
of seafood from Newfoundland & Labrador including fresh and frozen
seafood; crab, shrimp, groundfish and pelagics
Nova Scotia Seafood - Represents the Nova
Scotia seafood industry exporting products such as: lobster, snow crab,
scallops, shrimp, haddock, herring and mackerel.
Odyssey Seafoods - HGT sea frozen Pacific
Hake and Arrowtooth Flounder, sea frozen west coast groundfish such as
lingcod, Pacific ocean perch, sole, and many other species.
Paramount Seafood International - Chum,
pink salmon fillets, portions and blocks; Pacific cod fillets, loins,
blocks; hake, pollock, yellowfin sole, redfish fillets and blocks, squid
tube, rings, tubes and tentacles, imitation crabmeat, crab claws
and assorted breaded seafood products.
Produits Belle Baie Ltée. - Packagers
and exporters of shrimp, crab, frozen fish fillets, marinated herring,
herring roe and lobster.
Sogelco International Inc. - Frozen lobster
products: whole cooked and blanched lobster, tails, variety of lobster
meats; "Lobsterine" and "Crabterine" lobster and crab concentrates for
soups, sauces and pastas; shrimp; crab; monkfish; dogfish; skate wings;
squid; scallops; mackerel; Atlantic and Pacific salmon; other pelagics;
and groundfish.
Ucluelet Harbour Seafoods Ltd. - Pacific
Whiting (also called Pacific Hake - Merluccius productus), fillets-Individually
Quick Frozen (IQF, skin on or off), Headed and Tailed-H&T, Headed,
Gutted and Tailed-HGT, Mince Blocks-dimensional and non-dimensional
Other Canadian Companies Exhibiting at ESE but not within the Canadian
Pavilion include:
- Fishery Products International 6-1126
- Focus Seafoods International 6-830
- Freshwater Fish Market Corp. 6-830
- Ocean to Ocean Seafood 6-943
CANADA’S PRESENCE AT EUROPEAN SEAFOOD EVENTS
Canada will have information stands at the following food
shows. Please visit us to learn more about Canada and our high-quality
seafood products:
Seafood Russia, 6-8 June, 2006. Moscow (www.seafood-russia.ru).
The following companies will be exhibiting:
- Fishery Products International
- Les Pêcheries Marinard Ltée
- Ucluelet Harbour Seafoods Ltd.
Seafood Pavilion, World Food Moscow, September
26-29, 2006. Moscow (www.worldfood-moscow.com)
World Food Ukraine, 31 October – 03 November
2006. International Exhibition Centre, Kiev (www.worldfood-ukraine.com)
OTHER TRADE OPPORTUNITIES
Canadian Fishing Company (Canfisco)
is a fully integrated fishery products organization that has been harvesting,
processing and marketing seafood for the last 100 years. Canfisco lands,
processes and sells over 100 million pounds of seafood products, including
hake, sardines, herring, black cod, salmon caviar and herring roe and
our number one product of choice, wild Pacific salmon. CANFISCO owns and
operates CFIA, HACCP and EU approved processing facilities from southern
British Columbia, Canada to Bristol Bay, Alaska. Our products are sold
under various brands (‘GoldSeal’, ‘Queen Charlotte’, ‘Rupert’, ‘Canfisco’)
throughout Canada, the US, Japan, Australia and Europe. Canfisco also
specializes in producing our products to the customer’s own specifications
and private label. With a century of experience, Canfisco has earned a
well-deserved reputation as leading supplier of quality Pacific seafood,
committed to providing innovative and high quality seafood products that
meet the discriminating tastes of our customers. For further product and
company information, please view our website at: www.goldseal.ca
or contact: richard.walsh@goldseal.ca
or ilona.rapin@goldseal.ca
Connors Bros., North America's largest
branded seafood company, markets high quality canned and shelf-stable
seafood in over 40 markets around the world under its leading brands including
the Brunswick© and Bumble Bee© brands. Connors works through
key distributor partners in each market that it services and focuses on
canned tuna, canned salmon, canned sardine and herring products, in addition
to a full line of canned specialty seafood items. For more information
please contact Mr. Heinz Schaerer, Vice President, International Sales
at 506-648-1514 or e-mail at Heinz.Schaerer@connors.ca.
For more information on Connors, please visit us at www.connors.ca.
Fishing companies and seafood processors around the world are repairing
their own large plastic fish totes and double-wall, insulated containers.
Drader manufactures a plastic repair
tool for totes that makes plastic repair easy and very cost effective.
Fish totes get damaged from forklifts, mishandling, and normal wear and
tear. Now, fishing companies and seafood processors do not have to purchase
as many new totes because they can repair their damaged ones. Because
totes are so expensive, more companies are looking for a repair solution
that the Drader Injectiweld provides. With the price of fish totes skyrocketing,
repairing the damaged ones makes economic sense. Even the repair of a
few broken totes will pay out the tool. For more information, or for a
free video on fish tote repair, contact: Drader Manufacturing Industries
Ltd., 5750 50 Street, Edmonton, AB T6B 2Z8, Canada. Tel: +1.780.440.2231
/ Fax: +1.780.440.2244 Email: plasticwelding@drader.com
Ocean Choice International Inc.
(OCI), a member of the Penney Group, was formed in 2000 as the parent
company for a number of operating companies already existing in the Newfoundland
fishing industry. OCI, headquartered in historic Newfoundland and Labrador,
manages numerous processing plants, two factory freezer vessels and is
engaged in several Canadian and International partnerships. We are major
processors of Lobster, Snow Crab, Northern Shrimp, Pelagics (Mackerel,
Herring, Capelin) Cod, Redfish, Turbot and Mussels. Packs vary by species,
market and/or customer request.
For more information please visit our website at www.oceanchoice.com
Omstead Foods Ltd of Wheatley,
Ontario is a major processor of premium IQF Fish and IQF Vegetables located
at the shore of Lake Erie. They are seeking regular importers and/or processors
in Europe for their high-quality products. Present bestseller to the E.U.
is Round Whitebait / Smelt / Friture De Poissons (Osmerus eperlanus mordax)
available raw or battered. Contact Walter or Toby Herrlich at: bayshore@bluewin.ch.
They will also be available for meetings during the ESE in Brussels. Visit
their websites: www.bayshore.ch
and www.omsteadfoods.com
Pacific Seafoods International Ltd. produces Wild Gourmet Smoked Salmon
from the Pacific Coast of Canada. Over 30 years of processing and exporting
only the best Wild Salmon, throughout the world, means you can expect
a truly exceptional taste of West Coast Cuisine. PSI is looking to re-energize
the European Smoked Salmon Market by connecting Food Service and Retail
buyers to the very best source of Wild Smoked Salmon the world has to
offer. With an exceptional knowledge of the West Coast Salmon Fishery
and the love of a gourmand at heart, you can count on Pacific Seafoods
International. www.pacificseafoods.com.
Or contact Mr.Todd Harmon at todd.harmon@pacificseafoods.com
Since it's founding in 1978 Presteve
Foods has steadily grown to become one of Canada's largest
freshwater fish processors. The Company operates 2 EU approved processing
plants strategically located in Canada's Great Lakes Basin and supplies
a wide variety of species such as lake smelt, lake whitefish, yellow
pickerel, yellow lake perch, lake herring, white bass, white perch plus
many more. Fish are caught by day boats and products are shipped
to markets overseas and domestically, fresh and frozen. Specialties
include whole fish, IQF & vacuum packed fillets and ready-to-eat
lake whitefish and lake herring caviar. All products are processed under
HACCP principles and both plants are supervised by the Canadian Food Inspection
Agency (CFIA). Extensive product, contact and company information is easily
available on the company's website at www.prestevefoods.com and
all are welcome to make contact. You may also e-mail Bob Thickett, Import-Export
Manager at bobt@prestevefoods.com.
Sogelco is a producer, exporter
and importer of frozen fish and seafood products servicing the industrial,
foodservice and retail trades. Our range of processed products includes
frozen whole cooked lobsters, cooked lobster and crab meats, raw lobster
tails, and the "Lobsterine " and "Crabterine" lobster and
crab concentrates used as culinary bases for the production of bisques,
sauces, pasta and other value added seafood. In addition, we also supply
salmon, trout, cold water shrimps, crab, smelts, monkfish, dogfish, skate
wings, squids, pelagics and groundfish products. For more information,
please contact Gabriel Elbaz or Andre Arseneault at tel : +1.514.849.2414,
Fax: +1.514.849.0645 or email at : sogelco@sogelco.com
Torngat Fish Producers Co-operative is located in Northern
Labrador and represents five northern Labrador communities producing
crab products, wild arctic char, icelandic scallops, turbot (greenland
halibut), and salted rock cod. Torngat is pleased to introduce our range
of high end products featuring "Cooked on the Beach Flavors". The
newest item is fully cooked, individually quick frozen, snow
crab legs - meat only, extracted while frozen to retain the natural flavours.
This product is a viable substitute for high end lobster products
and it will be featured at the Newfoundland and Labrador booth in the
Canadian Pavillion at the European Seafood Exposition. Torngat's
season is from June through November and this innovative product comes
vacuum packed with 14 one-pound units per master. For
details regarding this product, or IQF scallops; frozen at sea turbot
(Greenland Halibut); shore frozen turbot; snow crab sections, claws, speciality
meats; wild arctic char, head-on or smoked arctic char sides;
or salted rock cod, please email Cfoodlt@aol.com
or gm@torngatfishcoop.com.
Disclaimer: This newsletter is distributed for information
only and should not be seen as an endorsement or promotion of the companies
highlighted. The company content reflected in this newsletter is submitted
by the individual companies and the Canadian Embassy assumes no responsibility
for the accuracy of the information.
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