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Santa Monica Seafood Receives Food Safety System Certification 22000!

We’re pleased to announce the Company recently received Food Safety System Certification (FSSC 22000) making us the first seafood company in the United States to achieve this significant...

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Getting Prepared for the Sustainable Seafood Summit

After spending the summer trolling in Southeast Alaska, I am hanging up my boots and heading for the airport! Although the 2012 Alaskan troll season runs through September 20 (and we have a uniquely...

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Aquaculture Update: The Good, The Bad and The Hungry

Our friends over at IntraFish clued us in to a report recently posted on Vital Signs that lays out some great information on the rapidly growing world of aquaculture. Some of the figures they lay out...

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A Tilapia Journey – Update from Hainan Province in China

After an 11.5 hour flight to Beijing and a quick layover, I arrived in the city of Haikou, in China’s Hainan Province. The second I stepped off the plane I understood the meaning of...

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Day Two of Our Haikou Tilapia Tour

We had a wonderful start to our second day in Haikou – we left the city to visit a local hatchery and tilapia farm. Eight stakeholders, including buyers from the US and Canada, were given a chance to...

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A Visit to Hainan Qinfu Foods Processing Facility

After an eventful morning at the hatchery and farm, we enjoyed a delicious lunch and then continued on to the Hainan Qinfu Foods processing facility. One thing they are very proud of is the fact that...

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Chalky Halibut; An Industry-Wide Issue

Every once in a while we get a call from a customer about some “chalky” halibut. Although it’s not a common occurrence, halibut do indeed turn “chalky” from time-to-time. If you’ve never experienced...

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On the Road with Santa Monica Seafood

You can tell a lot about a seafood company by looking through its employees passports. The past couple of months have included a slew of international travel for our purchasing and marketing...

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Taking a Stand Against Seafood Fraud

Seafood fraud continues to make the front pages of newspapers across the country, and if you are keeping up with the numbers, it would seem that species substitution is a national epidemic.  We fully...

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FDA Conducts DNA Testing on Commonly Mislabeled Fish

We’ve been keeping a balanced conversation about seafood fraud alive here on the Blog, and recently worked to stop the State of California from implementing new seafood labeling laws – not because we...

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