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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.

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