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!
Stikine Seafoods is the place to go if you want top quality, sustainable seafood from the pristine waters off of Southeast Alaska. Owned and operated by Roger Mikkelsen, Stikine Seafoods provides an array of locally-caught, fresh and frozen salmon, halibut, crab, and prawn products.
In 1987, a friend took Roger out fishing in Alaska and he has been fishing there ever since. Roger has done it all when it comes to fishing in Alaska and has spent over twenty years catching salmon, halibut, and other species in his local waters. In recent years, Roger has begun focusing his efforts...
Sugpiaq natives are coastal people and have fished the Alaskan waters for 7,500 years. They were one of the first Alaskan Natives to teach others how to fish and preserve fish in Alaska. Sugpiaq uses their fishing experience in choosing the best Wild Alaskan Seafood and ensures your products are the healthiest, purest and sustainable. Sugpiaq fisherman follow a strict quality controlled process ensuring their seafood is the highest quality in the world. Sugpiaq seafood is pure, sustainable and their icy waters are unpolluted. Their goal is to sustain their waters for future generations...
Sun Rice Corporation is a frozen specialty seafood importer based in North Plainfield, New Jersey. In the market since 1998, Sun Rice Corporation imports high-quality seafood from the Mediterranean, yielding products with a fresh taste and refined texture that can be found in restaurants from New York to Seattle.
Over the years, the company has introduced a number of products including calamari, pulpo de playa (Spanish "day boat" octopus), dried salted cod, carabinero shrimp (Red Shrimp), and...
Founded in 2013, Sun Shrimp is a closed-containment shrimp farm in Florida. Sun Shrimp's aquaculture facility is fully integrated. The shrimp are hatched, grown, harvested, processed, and packed all on location. Sun Shrimp are 100% US based and available fresh year-round. The company's shrimp can be delivered anytime nationwide within 24 hours of harvest.
At harvest, the shrimp are immediately dipped in an ice slurry that will quickly preserve them. They arrive at the packing plant within minutes where they are washed, graded and packed so they can be shipped to...
Dick Jennings loved his Grandfather's land in Western North Carolina, covered with forests of oak, hickory, maple, and poplar, watered with two rushing streams, and with 100 acres of reasonably flat land that could be cleared. It was 1931 when Dick first walked these streams and 1948 when the young WWII veteran returned to the mountains to start the first commercial trout farm in the South. Sunburst Trout Company was officially established in 1985, and in 2001 Dick Jennings was inducted into the Western North Carolina Agricultural Hall of Fame. They are also the 2007...
Superior Fresh LLC is a fish farm and processing operation located in Hixton, Wisconsin. Focusing on commercial coldwater aquaponics, Superior Fresh LLC raises rainbow trout and Atlantic salmon in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) in conjunction with a hydroponic greenhouse. The nutrient rich water from the fish facility is sent to a large greenhouse where they grow varieties of leafy greens. Advanced ozone treatment ensures irrigation water is pure and improves nutrient recycling, and little staff turnover minimizes errors that may compromise food safety. They have assembled a multi...
The LeClair family has been fishing Lake Michigan from Two Rivers for more than 130 years! Our French Canadian descendents began moving to this area in the mid-1800s from Quebec; the LeClairs, Allies, Gautheirs, Gagnons, LaFonds, Vaudreuils, Lonzeau, and Sanvilles. Most ran commercial fishing operations - and the LeClairs are still at it - plying the waters of Lake Michigan just as our forefathers did!
In the 1880’s, Albert LeClair traveled from Canada and settled in Two Creeks, about 10 miles from Two Rivers. Albert farmed for a few years and then decided in the 1900s to start...
Sustainable Blue is a Canadian producer of both exotic and native species of fish, situated close to The Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. It uses world leading aquaculture technology, designed in-house, in the operation of land based recirculation fish farms. It is committed to product quality, environmental responsibility and commercial success through technological excellence.
Sustainable Blue fish live in the same crystal clear, blue water you expect to see in the open ocean. The fish are in excellent condition and this is largely because they live...
Sustainable Seafood Sales, LLC is a marketing and sales firm. Their job is to bring the seafood producer together with the seafood consumer. The company's goal is to promote healthy fisheries by using the wealth of information and research that has been compiled by the many universities and non-profits fighting to protect our oceans and inland waterways.
The company works hard to build awareness of small fisheries and new developing aquaculture operations who are doing the right thing and producing exceptional quality seafood with the blessing of...
Located in Seattle Washington, Tai Foong USA, Inc. is a private family-owned business that offers all natural seafood products to retail and foodservice operators in the United States. The company is a leading importer and distributor of seafood in North America, with over 35 years of import experience. Local and global sourcing from the USA west coast, Latin America, South America, and Asia helps to ensure a continuous supply of products to customers. The long-standing relationships with ingredient suppliers and manufacturers allow the company to continue to provide high-quality seafood....
Each year Taku Fisheries purchases over seven million pounds of fish from local Alaskan Fishermen. Although the bulk of their production flows into domestic and foreign wholesale markets, they are able to select the best quality fresh fish from the catch for their own smokehouse and mail order needs.
They are a bona fide licensed, insured and bonded Alaskan seafood processing company. At Taku Fisheries they operate under the Federal Food and Drug Administrations' HACCP guidelines, the State of Alaska's Environmental Health Department regulations and inspections, as well...
Taku River Reds is an Alaskan salmon fisher and wholesaler located in Juneau, Alaska. Founded by Michigan transplants Len (“Pete”) and Sheila Peterson, Pete spent several summers in the 1970’s working on salmon fishing boats in Southeast Alaska before the couple decided to purchase their own boat in 1981. After fishing and selling their catch to large processors for years, Pete and Sheila decided that they wanted to process and distribute their catch directly to consumers and businesses. With the help of their daughter Heather and her husband Kirk, in 2003 they began to ship their premium...
Taste of BC Aquafarms Inc. is a land based aquafarm specializing in steelhead trout. Located in Nanaimo, British Columbia, the farm which has been in the family for decades, sells it's Ocean Wise recommended steelhead trout under the Little Cedar Falls brand.
Raising their fish in a closed land based system allows Taste of BC Aquafarms to raise their fish with very little risk of disease, thus avoiding the need to use chemical therapeutants, antibiotics, steroids or hormones. Using a recirculating aquaculture system also allows Taste of BC Aquafarms to produce their fish on land...
The Taylor family has been growing shellfish in the bays and inlets of Puget Sound and the Washington coast for over 100 years. Their farms are in some of the most beautiful and nutrient-rich tidelands in the world. The clean, clear waters of the Sound provide the environment for growing some of the most bountiful and flavorful shellfish harvests to be found anywhere.
Taylor Shellfish is the largest producer of farmed shellfish in the United States. Under the leadership of the Taylor family of Shelton, WA, business has grown to nearly 500 employees and 11,000 acres of tidelands...
Since 1986, Thalassa Seafoods has specialized in the sales and distribution of an assortment of frozen seafood products from around the globe. Thalassa Seafoods first started out in the seafood business by supplying raw materials and semi-finished products to the reprocessing industry and has since grown into a worldwide supplier of high-quality seafood. With over 30 years of experience, the team at Thalassa Seafoods has the expertise and the knowledge to meet your seafood needs at the most competitive prices.
Thalassa Seafoods has set the bar when it comes to ensuring their...
Established in 1968, the Abalone Farm is now the largest aquaculture facility of its kind in the US, producing over one million California abalone per year, which constitutes over 100 tons. Abalone are environmentally-sensitive, indicator species of water pollution, but the abalone at the Abalone Farm are raised in clean, pristine waters north of Morro Bay in California. Their tanks are designed to simulate the natural growing conditions the abalone would be accustomed to in the wild. The abalone spend two months in the hatchery, before they are moved to the nursery. After about eight...
The Auction Block Co. is a locally-owned, fisherman-owned seafood processor in Homer, Alaska. Since the company's beginning in 1997, The Auction Block Co. has grown to be the largest halibut buyers on the Homer Spit.
The Auction Block Co. is dedicated to buying only sustainably managed, harvested, and processed wild Alaskan seafood. To ensure the highest quality halibut and salmon products, The Auction Block prefers to work with smaller quantities. All the fish they buy comes from Cook Inlet, Prince William Sound, the Gulf of Alaska, and the Bering Sea.
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The Cultured Abalone Farm has been providing customers throughout the United States and Canada with fresh, live red abalone since 1989. Located on the Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara, California, The Cultured Abalone Farm is committed to being the premier domestic producer of red abalone and to maintaining the highest environmental stewardship standards.
The Cultured Abalone Farm raise native red abalone throughout the abalone’s entire life cycle – from spawning and larval rearing to harvest. All of their abalone are grown and raised in shaded tanks designed to emulate the...
The Fish Connection Cooperative is a North Carolina based aquaculture cooperative for aquaculture producers. The company was founded in 2002 by a group of aquaculture producers who understood the need to work together in order to provide customers with a consistent supply of premium quality, farm-raised products on a year round basis.
Clients will be able to provide their customers with a premium quality product, and they will be able to taste the dedication to excellence the Fish Connection Cooperative offers.
Aquaculture producers can contact them about membership in The...
Founded in 1993, The Fish Guys is the Midwest's premier wholesale supplier bringing top chefs, restaurants, high-end retailers and upscale caterers, the freshest and widest variety of seafood from around the globe. From their choice of fishing and farming partners and meticulous whole-fish processing to their stringent sustainability practices and unwavering customer-centric service, they treat their people, product, process, environment and customers with the utmost respect.
From the fish guys' trusted partners to youCreating...
The Fishery, Inc. was started in 1983 by Kenneth Beer. The company has four farm sites in Sacramento County and one site in Modoc County, California. They have 900 acres of ponds, all of which are currently in production. The Fishery, Inc. supplies live fish to retail fish markets and Asian markets in Northern California throughout the week. The Fishery, Inc. strives for complete sustainability through a consistent water supply, controlled expenses, positive environmental impacts, and reliable profit margins.
Owner Kenneth Beer has been experimenting with aquaculture techniques and...
The Fishin’ Company of Munhall, Pennsylvania is the largest importer of tilapia in the world and one of the largest importers of frozen fish, with offices and processing sites located around the world. Established in 2002, the minority-owned company was built on the principles of supplying the highest quality products, at the lowest prices possible, while providing an unmatchable level of customer service. The Fishin’ Company focuses every day on building strong, long-lasting partnerships with its customers, and have the distinct honor of continuing to supply many of its original customers...
Carla and Mark Ebener, hadn't really thought about selling fish directly to consumers. Carla looked up farmers markets and proposed the idea to Mark, who was a bit skeptical at first. However, they got a fairly positive response from the market manager in Flint and made all the necessary arrangements to set up their booth. It was probably a blessing that they didn't get the restaurants, Carla says three years later. As the Flint market proved successful, they recruited other family members and found a space at the hugely popular Meridian Township market. They also found a niche...
The Hadley Company, opened in 2003, is a seafood manufacturing and importing company with more than 50 years of combined experiene importing seafood products from all over the world. They create wholesale seafood products for restaurants and suppliers across the United States. After importing products from Norway and Russia, they send their materials to China to be processed at their facility. After that, the seafood is sent to their market within the United States. The product is segmented under the company's labels then sold to either distributors or chain restaurants throughout...