About Seafood

Megan Wood is the co-founder of 44 North Coffee, based on a small island off the coast of Maine. With two locations, 44 North Coffee has become a staple in the community. What does coffee have to do w...

Rodolfo began working at Slade Gorton & Co., Inc. right after high school. Now, he’s the plant manager at the Boston facility. A majority of the fish that comes in to his plant is sourced fr...

Jim Cercone is the Manufacturing Manager at High Liner Foods in Portsmouth, NH. He’s worked there for an impressive 35 years. In that time, he’s realized the importance of having access to...

Bart Farrell is the VP of Food and Beverage for Clyde’s Restaurant Group in the Washington, DC area. He describes how sourcing seafood from all over the world is great for the menu, and the jobs...

George Parr is the co-founder of Upstream Trucking in Portland, ME. He’s been in the seafood industry since 1976. His business sources and sells seafood to many major restaurants in the Portland...

Matt is an owner of Burke’s Seafood; a 3rd generation, family-owned seafood market and restaurant in North Quincy, MA. Since 1979, the Burke family has served local seafood from the Boston area,...

Jack is the CEO of Browne Trading Company, a supplier of fine caviar, fresh fish, shellfish, and smoked seafood to elite restaurants and home kitchens across the United States. Browne Trading sources ...

Bob LaFreniere has worked in product development and quality assurance in the seafood industry for 25 years. At Slade Gorton & Co., Inc., he manages a team that monitors the quality of fish receiv...

Fiona Lewis is co-owner of The District Fishwife, a seafood market and fast casual restaurant at Union Market in Washington, DC. The District Fishwife celebrates local seafood and loves to offer it to...

Jeff McKinney has worked at High Liner Foods, in Portsmouth, NH for almost 30 years. Though U.S. fisheries ebb and flow depending on seasons and quotas, the manufacturing plant that employs him has re...

Graham Schave is a chef at High Liner Foods in NH. He loves working with seafood because of the variety – seafood offers a rainbow of colors and species, and variety can be the spice of life. Ha...

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NFI is in Boston for the seafood community’s biggest event in North America. ...

On the last day of the 2018 Global Seafood Market Conference, NFI hosts a quiz for attendees to see how much they learned – with prizes included. ...