Partner Directory
Learn more about sustainability minded businesses using the FishChoice Partner Directory. FishChoice Partners are committed to being transparent with some, if not all, of their seafood products and associated sourcing information. Partners range from seafood suppliers and aquaculture operations, to retailers and restaurants, zoos, aquariums, and more!
Canadian based 46° South Fish Co. Ltd., is a seafood importer and distributor that specializes in bringing fresh New Zealand seafood to Canadian customers. With an emphasis on sustainable fishing, 46° South works tirelessly to promote and market seafood that is responsibly caught and farmed. Leveraging their experience and relationships in New Zealand, 46° South is constantly up-to-date with quality products, as well as new and unique seafood as it becomes available.
The cold rough waters of the Southern Ocean create an extremely favorable growing environment,...
Founded in 1967 in a small fish market on 4th Avenue in Vancouver, 7 Seas Fish Co has grown significantly over the years. With over 200 employees, the company recognizes that its employees drive its business achievements. Using its passion, dedication, and knowledge of seafood, 7 Seas Fish Co works to earn the trust of customers and to make their jobs easier. The company strives to be a great choice for seafood consumers in North America and wants to provide its customers with high-quality seafood, based on environmentally sound and sustainable fishing practices. Food Safety is also a...
For over 25 years, A&H Seafood Market Partners has developed partnerships with local fisherman and purveyors to deliver the frestest and finest products to their clients. They understand the importance of innovation to their customers and work hard to find unique products.
A & R Seafood Company of San Francisco, California is a seafood distributor specializing in quality, sushi-grade seafood. Focusing exclusively on customers in San Francisco and the Bay Area, they’re able to quickly, and efficiently provide their customers with the freshest seafood around. Close proximity to their customers also allows A & R Seafood Company the opportunity to better engage and educate their clientele on the importance of sustainable seafood.
Striving to change the world, one plate at a time, A & R Seafood Company employs strict...
Located in Homer, one of Alaska's primary fishing ports, A-1 Alaskan Halibut was started in 1989. The company offloads vessels in Homer and ships the highest quality fresh and frozen Alaska seafood to markets throughout North America.
A few years ago, the owner of Kansas-based AAA Ranch began looking into ways to make a living with farming. With the skills and experience of field service engineers, the idea of developing an aquaponics operation came to mind. The plan and process started in a barn, where the owner spent 2 years designing and adjusting an elaborate aquaponics system for tilapia production. AAA Ranch currently utilizes RAS and BioReactor technologies for its aquaponics operation.
The ranch offers all sizes of tilapia from fry and fingerlings to whole fish. AAA Ranch uses no...
After 50 years in the poultry business, the Chiasson family of New Brunswick, Canada turned their efforts towards aquaculture, and opened the doors to Acadian Fish Farm Ltd. (Pisciculture Acadienne Ltée), starting a new chapter for their family-owned business. Located in Saint Simon, New Brunswick, Acadian Fish Farm is a sustainable aquafarm specializing in Arctic char.
Utilizing an indoor recirculating aquaculture system, the Arctic char grown on site are raised without the use of added hormones or antibiotics. The Arctic char at Acadian Fish Farm are the same species currently...
Founded in 2005, Acadian Sturgeon and Caviar is an Atlantic and shortnose sturgeon farm and fisher located in New Brunswick, Canada. After a short lived stint in Romania processing smoked trout, founder Cornel Ceapa became enamored with sturgeon after an afternoon fishing on the Danube River while working towards his PhD. After graduating, Cornel and his family moved to Canada where they took his passion for sturgeon, and his interest in providing a sustainable sturgeon alternative, and decided to open their own aquaculture facility!
A true family owned and operated business, Cornel...
Acari takes a hated, feared and invasive armored catfish or the 'devil fish', as it's known colloquially in Mexico, and turns it into great-tasting, healthy food. The devil fish is a serious problem in Mexico, where it now accounts for over 70% of freshwater capture, decimating the small-scale fishing industry on which tens of thousands of fishermen depend. Acari hires these affected fishermen and flips the script on the devil fish, envisioning a day where the devil fish is no longer viewed as a curse but rather a blessing to help solve economic and nutritional issues in Mexico.
The...
Acme Smoked Fish is the largest smoked fish company in the US and has been hot and cold smoking fish since 1906 . The company is particularly focused on quality, consistency, food safety and production capacity. Acme Smoked Fish honed this focus by taking over its supply chain. Five years ago, the business opened Acme Chile in Puerto Montt, just north of Patagonia, where it operates and processes raw materials purchased directly from farms. From there, fish, either headed and gutted or filleted, are sent to the company's HQ in Brooklyn or to its cold smoking facility in Wilmington, NC....
Acuacultura Integral has more than 40 years experience growing and producing seafood such as clams, mussels, and oysters in the Mexican state of Baja California. The company is constantly looking for new and better aquaculture practices and standards to improve their operations. Acuacultura Integral respects and preserves the environment, believing this amplifies the recognition of not only the quality, but the sustainability of their products. The company adheres to the strict requirements and regulations of the market. Their processes are on par with international producers which allows...
ACUINOR (Acuícola del Norte S.A.) was established in 2006 in the city of Caldera, Chile, and has since made a name for itself producing yellowtail amberjack using recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). ACUINOR began its operations in 2008, and its facility makes Chile the second country (after Australia) to achieve commercial production of yellowtail amberjack in recirculating systems and the first company to export live juveniles worldwide. The company is currently exporting its fish (fresh, whole round) to the European market as well as to select markets in the United States.
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Situated in the “lobster capital of Canada,” AGE Lobster Inc. is a live lobster buyer, shipper, and wholesaler.
AGE Lobster Inc. is dedicated to shipping high-quality, live lobsters worldwide at low prices. Located in Shelburne County, Nova Scotia, AGE Lobster Inc. buys their lobsters right off the boat from local fishermen. Shelburne County lands more lobsters than any other part of Canada – accounting for over a third of the lobster landings in Canada each year. This ensures that AGE Lobster Inc. has a continuous supply of fresh lobsters year round.
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Airson Seafood is a family owned and operated purveyor of Icelandic-caught seafood founded in 2015 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Their business, built on the cornerstones of providing quality seafood that is both fresh and sustainably caught, is committed to providing the best, and most environmentally friendly products for their customers.
Airson Seafood offers a variety of products from Atlantic cod and haddock to Atlantic wolfish and cusk. All of their products are caught in Icelandic waters and are made available to customers from around the world the very next day. Continuing...
AIS Aqua Foods, Inc (AIS Aqua) has been in the seafood industry since 1983 when founder and Managing Director, Andrew Kaelin, began large scale shrimp farming in Central America. Since then, Mr. Kaelin has been working in aquaculture production both commercially and as a consultant to the World Bank (since 1989 in both China and Mexico), to the US Agency for International Development (in Russia, East Africa) and to non-governmental organizations (Sri Lanka, Indonesia).
The company was converted from a foreign entity (Sociedad Anonima, S.A.) to a US corporation (LLC) called...
Akulurak is an Alaska freezer longliner that produces the finest FAS seafood from Alaska, including Pacific cod, sablefish, king and snow crab. The vessel operates in a professional manner to produce quality FAS seafood products, while looking out for the safety and well being of its crew members.
Alaska Glacier Seafoods, Inc. is a wholesale supplier of high quality, wild caught, Alaskan seafood. Owned and operated by the Erickson family since 1996, Alaska Glacier Seafoods was initially started as a hobby, selling a few pounds of side-stripe shrimp that were caught in the family’s 14-foot aluminum skiff. After purchasing a few thousand pounds of halibut, which they then sold to local restaurants, and at a road side stand on the weekends, the high demand soon had them buying small loads of halibut from other fishermen.
In 2005, Alaska Glacier Seafoods opened their 10,000...
Alaska Weathervane Seafoods was formed by three of the Alaska Weathervane Scallop fishing boats, and their crews, united by their passion for sharing the sweetest, all-natural scallops in the world. With the Alaska Scallop Fishery being managed by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, with oversight from the National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Weathervane Seafoods is able to ensure that future generations have the opportunity to enjoy the best seafood that this planet has to offer by following strict guidelines for sustainable harvesting.
Everything from catching and...
Alaskan Leader Seafoods is one of the most progressive, innovative and vertically integrated “Hook & Line“ fishing company in Alaska. Their vessels are the newest and the cleanest in the fleet and maintained so well that they are proud to fly the Maltese Falcon Cross (the symbol of inspection excellence from the American Bureau of Shipping). All of their vessels are American built, U.S. Coast Guard inspected and licensed.
What sets it apart from other fishing companies is that their fleet is outfitted with a custom-designed and patented Norwegian longline...
Founded by Mara Boland in 2015, Alaskan Premium Seafoods motto and mission from the start has always been ‘Sustainability and Traceability’ and ‘Straight from the Fisherman’s Hands”. Alaska Premium Seafood, born in 2010 and relaunched in 2015, buys seafood directly from the Alaskan Fishermen's Cooperative, and other family owned vessels ensuring their catch is sustainably caught and 100% traceable.
A Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Partner, Alaska Premium Seafoods only distributes seafood from fishers that utilize sustainable fishing practices. Their Alaska caught seafood which...
Alaskan Salmon Company of Anchorage, Alaska is a primary fisher of fresh, wild Alaskan salmon. Founded by Kyle Lee, a passionate lifelong fisherman and native Alaskan, Alaskan Salmon Company was created on the foundation of sharing local, sustainable salmon with the masses.
Aboard their vessel on the Copper River, Alaskan Salmon Company employs custom built gillnets to catch Chinook, coho, and sockeye salmon. Taking care to ensure that fish are removed from their gillnets as soon as possible after being caught, the fish are brought onboard alive, ensuring a better end product. After...
Alaskans Own is a select brand of seafood for discerning customers wanting the best tasting, healthiest, high-quality seafood available now and for generations to come. By purchasing Alaskans Own, customers are investing in the future of wild Alaskan fisheries and in the artisanal fishing communities, whose caring practices are vital to ocean health. They are a non-profit, community supported fishery (CSF) part of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association (ALFA). The Association is an alliance of over 150 small-boat fishing families committed to good fisheries policy and research...
Founded in 2001 in one of Alaska’s most remote regions, Aleutia is a community-based non-profit organization made up of local fishing families and shaped by a distinct wild salmon run that has been part of Aleut Native tradition for generations. With help from the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation (AFDF), Aleutia was created to share the best of the traditional ocean harvest, and tell the story of the region and the families therein. Recognized as one of the highest quality salmon on the market today, Aleutia salmon are harvested at sea by fishermen who take pride in the fish they...
Alewive's Brook Farm was purchased by Alvin E. Jordan in 1957. Shortly after purchasing the farm Alvin purchased several used tractors which are still used today in the day to day tasks that are done on the farm. For the next two decades Alewive's was in the wholesale business selling cabbage, lettuce, and squash to Hannaford, the Carr Brothers and other large local grocers. In the late 70's when grocers began to get their produce from the Midwest, Alewive's moved into the retail business. Alewive's Brook Farm was run by Alvin and his son Jodie, who took over the day to day operations...