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!
Aqualine Seafoods Ltd, located in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, is a leading Canadian wholesale supplier of wild sustainable fish products. At Aqualine Seafoods, they can meet the needs of international clients for many types of premium quality seafood through their vast network of fisheries and processing facilities.
Aqualine Seafoods Ltd was founded by Jock Bray, Chief Executive Officer of Port Fish (P.A.) Ltd, a company with a heritage of four generations of fishing families. At that time, their primary business was marketing Port Fish and Viking Enterprise products...
Aquanor Marketing, Inc., established in 1985, is a recognized and highly respected importer and marketer of top quality seafood products. Aquanor has a well-earned reputation for the superior quality of its products packed under the Aquanor Brand as well as the integrity of its Customer Service and Quality Control Departments.
Aquanor Marketing, Inc., is committed to the sustainable harvesting of wild and aquacultured fisheries, the responsible use of natural resources and the overall health of its consumers. Partnering with a network of suppliers dedicated to the same...
Located in Ship Harbour, on the beautiful Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, AquaPrime has been farming mussels for 23 years. The mussel farm operates year-round and processes the shellfish in their own facility on site. The proximity of the farm sites to the processing facility means AquaPrime can quite literally can have mussels out of the water and on your table in the same day.
Mussel aquaculture only removes from the ocean what was inserted. Mussel farming requires clean water because the mussels feed by filtering sea water. When is comes to mussels they really are what they eat,...
Aquatech Fisheries is a pioneer in land-based aquaculture. Aquatech Fisheries established and operates the largest and only successful large-scale industrial land-based RAS fishery in Israel, raising and distributing Barramundi fish across Israel.
The Aquatech team includes top-tier industry and aquaculture specialists, supported by the leading global aquaculture advisors. A fully vertical-integrated company, Aquatech is leading the sustainable food revolution in Israel.
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Ariel Seafoods is a Florida based seafood supplier specializing in bringing sustainable wild caught fish from the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico to customers across the United States. Among the landmarks at its flagship location is the 63-foot Jonathan T, a 1982 fiberglass Desco Marine vessel owner David Krebs Jr. fished in South America from 1989 to 1991. The fishing vessel provides a constant reminder that Krebs is serious about the seafood business his father, David Krebs Senior, started as a trucking company in 1981. Today, Ariel Seafoods operates two locations out of Destin, Florida and...
Brian and Bob Fortune, the founders of Atlantic Aqua Farms, began growing, processing and marketing mussels in 1989. They were pioneers of the mussel farming industry on Prince Edward Island, which now produces nearly 40,000,000 pounds annually. The U.S. and Canadian markets seemed ready for the company's high quality mussel products and sales grew rapidly. In 1997, the company built a 100,000 sq. ft. holding and processing plant which allows the company to process over 20M lbs. annually. In 2001 and 2002 Atlantic Aqua Farms expanded mussel operations into Nova Scotia and acquired...
The Atlantic Red Crab Company is a vertically integrated company that owns and manages a fleet of four offshore Atlantic red crab vessels that land between four and five million pounds of red crab annually. They have been harvesting red crab since 1995 and have successfully landed more than 70 million pounds of crab.
The MSC certification process began back in 2003 and today their Atlantic red crab is the first American crab to be certified as sustainable. The MSC label gives a guarantee of a constant, renewable supply of fresh, all natural crab meat products. Each step -from...
Atlantic Sapphire is pioneering Bluehouse® salmon farming, locally, and transforming protein production, globally. Our Bluehouses are bio-secure spaces where we raise Atlantic salmon at optimal conditions of animal health and welfare. Our revolutionary technology allows us to farm salmon outside the ocean, letting wild aquatic species thrive and protecting our fish from external factors, parasites and other diseases. Land-based salmon farming technology is emerging as one of the solutions to bridge the existing gap between a global increasing demand of salmon and a stagnant supply limited...
Atlantic Shellfish Products Inc. was started in 1997 to purchase, grade and sell wild caught oysters and quahogs (hard shell clams). Since that time Atlantic Shellfish has increased its customer base in the north-east United States and across Canada. They seasonally ship from May 1 to mid February of the following year. Atlantic Shellfish Products supplies a consistent, quality product reliably to a continually developing customer base that has come to appreciate excellent service. The South Lake brand is unique to Atlantic Shellfish coming from a superb lease on eastern PEI. In 2013 the...
Aussie Red Crab Pty Ltd is a spanner crab exporter, fishery, and processor located in Queensland, Australia. What started as a two-person operation in the 1980s, quickly grew into the largest spanner crab business in the world by the early 2000s. After a sabbatical from the industry in the mid 2000s, original founders Les and Lyn Apps returned to the business, this time launching Aussie Red Crab Pty Ltd and the Fraser Isle Spanner Crab brand.
Today Aussie Red Crab is a robust and vertically integrated production which currently fishes the largest single percentage of the Queensland...
Established in 1977, Austral Fisheries is one of Australia’s largest integrated commercial fishing companies, with interests in both deep-sea fishing and at-sea prawning. They are recognized for their responsible fishing practices and continuous efforts in maintaining environmentally friendly and sustainable methods. Austral Fisheries’ deep-sea fishing activities involve the operation of three longline vessels, including a dual-purpose longline-trawl vessel, while their prawning component utilizes a fleet of 10 prawn trawlers in the Northern Prawn Fishery off the coast of northern...
Australis Aquaculture is an award-winning producer of premium ocean-raised barramundi in Central Vietnam, bringing innovative Climate-Smart Ocean Farming practices to the marine tropics. With a mission to produce the best fish imaginable in the most responsible way possible, Australis spearheads the popularization of Barramundi in North America and offers a full line of frozen products under The Better Fish® for leading retail and foodservice companies.
Australis is the world's first ASC Marine Tropic Finfish certified farm, world's first Fair Trade Certified Barramundi...
Located in Britith Columbia, a convenient gateway to Asia and the United States, the 31,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility of Azuma Foods (Canada) Co., Ltd. is surrounded by the great natural beauty of our Canada, which strives to protect and ensure a bountiful supply of seafood resources.
Established in Yokkaichi City, Mie, Japan in 1966, Azuma Foods (Canada) Co., Ltd is a distributor, processor, and wholesaler of seafood celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2022. Located in Richmond, British Columbia - a convenient gateway to North & South America, Asia, and Europe, the 31,000 square foot manufacturing facility of Azuma Foods (Canada) is surrounded by the great natural beauty of Canada. With a mission of bringing good health and prosperity to the people of the world through innovation, safe, and reliable food products, Azuma Foods (Canada) has celebrated success in...
B&C Foods was started in 1988 by four founding partners who took over the assets of a small local supplier called Alberta Meats that had gone out of business. B&C moved into a new custom built facility at its current location on Butler Cresent in Saanichton in 1994. Since then, the building has tripled in size to 34 000 square feet of offices, coolers, freezers, and dry storage.
B&C is somewhat unique in that it supplies both retail (grocery stores) and food service accounts (hotels, pubs, restaurants, institutions). That versatility provides a variety of opportunities...
Baensch Food Products Co., a division of Wild Foods, Inc., hand-packs premium Atlantic herring imported from Nova Scotia. During the Great Depression, Lena “Ma” Baensch’s secret herring recipe became a neighborhood favorite. Stores began selling her herring in 1932 locally, and in 1999 the company was purchased by Kim Wal, who helped modernize operations and remarket the brand. Today, they continue to use the original family recipes for their herring tidbits marinated in wine sauce or sour cream and chive sauce.
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A family owned and operated shellfish farm, Baja Shellfish Farms was born from oceanologist Sergio Guevera’s dream of producing high-quality, sustainable shellfish. Guevera established the first offshore Mediterranean mussel farms in North America in the cold California current waters off of Baja Mexico. Shortly after, he partnered with fellow oceanologist Juan Carlos Lapuente to create Acuacultura Integral de Baja California in 1991. It quickly gained a reputation for consistently high-quality sustainable shellfish production. Twenty-seven years later, the company has launched its U.S....
Originally established in 1972, Barleans Fishery Inc. is now in its second generation as seafood specialists, with the next generation already growing quickly! The Barlean family has always dedicated its heart and energies to make every family, near and far, proud to prepare and serve Barleans seafoods by providing the freshest seafood available. When Dave Barlean quit his job as a pipe fitter and decided to go reef-netting full time he redesigned the traditional canoe style boats into a catamaran style and changed the reef netting industry.
These new style of boats has allowed...
Barnstable Sea Farms was started in 1991. They now have all of the best Mid-Cape restaurants as loyal customers. The company belongs to the "Cape Cod Buy Fresh Buy Local" movement and gives preference to restaurants that also deal with local products. The company has 7.5 acres in production in three distinct areas which allows the company to harvest to order on a year-round basis. They company has always grown their shellfish in a sustainable manner and observes the "Best Management Practices" of the industry. The company is happy to say that we leave the ocean cleaner...
Founded in 1854 in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Barry Group Inc. is a distributor, processor, and wholesaler of Canadian-caught seafood.
During the 1960s, the advent of modern technology presented promising business opportunities and, as a result, the Barry Group placed greater focus on quality, customer service, and marketing, while significantly expanding the customer base and production with more diverse species and packs. The responsible expansion of the Barry Group was contrived in the final decade of the last century with strategic access to more processing plants and expanded...
Baton Rouge Shrimp Company, Inc. is a state-of-the-art production plant specializing in Louisiana-caught shellfish and finfish.
Operated by longtime industry veterans, Baton Rouge Shrimp Company has the capacity to process over 100,000 pounds of product everyday. Their facility also has the ability to store up to three million pounds of frozen shrimp, snapper, grouper, crab, and other products. To ensure customers are receiving the freshest product available, all their seafood items are processed within hours of harvest. This helps ensure that customers are receiving a...
In the early 1980s, Joe Spurry Sr. was still making a pretty good living as a crabber on the waterways of Marylands Eastern Shore. Joe, who comes from a long line of Chesapeake Bay crabbers and watermen, was bringing in so many crabs at that time that he couldn't sell them all locally. So, he started delivering a lot of his extras in nearby Annapolis and Baltimore, MD. It wasnt long before the demand for good local Maryland seafood went through the roof and Joe, Sr. eventually sold his boat and gave up crabbing to focus on his growing distribution business.
Mr. Spurry saw an...
Owned and operated by the Williams family since 1978, the Bay Port Fish Company has been a staple of the Great Lakes fishing community, selling locally caught fish to discerning customers since 1895. Headquartered in Bay Port, Michigan, Bay Port Fish Company keeps its operations in the family with brothers Tod and Forrest running the main boats, while Tod’s wife, Connie, handles the businesses retail and marketing initiatives to vendors across the U.S. and Canada.
Focusing primarily on whitefish, Bay Port Fish Company also offers perch along with a rotating selection of seasonally...
The BC Spot Prawn vessel the Gulf Rascal, and its owner, Rick Jerema fish sustainable spot prawns in the cold, clean waters of Jervis Inlet north of Vancouver, British Columbia. Their wild spot prawns are trap caught and delivered live to Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast. They take pride in offering wild and sustainable spot prawns directly from the boat to the public. Look for the Gulf Rascal at the Govt. Dock in Madeira Park. BC Spot Prawns offers live prawns and fresh tails in season and sharp frozen tails and frozen whole prawns following the season.
Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Beaver Street Fisheries has been a leading importer, manufacturer, and distributor of frozen seafood products for more than 60 years. In 1979, Beaver Street Fisheries established their Sea Best® retail brand. This brand reflects the company’s core values of providing an array of affordable, high-quality frozen seafood to their customers. To ensure the best quality and safest seafood reach their customers, Beaver Street Fisheries implements food safety processes throughout their plants that align with the Global Food Safety Initiative and...