Northern Irish Rooney Fish for global seafood expo

Rooney Fish will fly the flag for Northern Ireland in 26th edition of Seafood Expo Global and 20th edition of Seafood Processing Global in Brussels, Belgium from 24 26 April.

Family-owned and managed Rooney Fish is Northern Ireland's leading fish and seafood business and is based at Kilkeel, the region's seafood hub in county Down.

Rooney will be showing a range of seafood especially its multi-award winning Mill Bay Oysters which are farmed on Carlingford Lough and are attracting interest from leading UK retailers. The oysters have won UK Great Taste Awards in successive years.

The Northern Ireland company exports seafood worldwide including crab claws to Japan, China and South Korea.

This global annual event attracts seafood buyers and suppliers from around the world and hosts the prestigious Seafood Excellence Awards.

Last year's event set another record-breaking edition with more than 28,500 seafood professionals attending the exposition - making it the largest edition in the event's history. The expo drew visitors from 150 countries and 1,859 exhibiting companies displayed their products during the three-day event.

According to event organisers, this month's event will feature more exhibit space than last year's edition and is on track to maximize the entire footprint available for the event.

"It's so exciting to see companies' growing interest in participating in the event," says Wynter Courmont, event director for Diversified Communications. "Records are meant to be broken. At this time, we are still receiving requests to exhibit in this year's edition and the event has surpassed last year's numbers in terms of exhibit space by more than 1000 m2."

Seafood Expo Global and Seafood Processing Global combined will feature exhibiting suppliers from 79 countries from every sector of the seafood industry. More than 70 national and regional pavilions will be showcasing their seafood products and equipment with new pavilions participating this year from Colombia (ProColombia) and France (Business France and Lorient Bretagne Sud).

Seafood Expo Global will highlight companies of fresh, frozen and value-added fish and seafood as well as processed and packaged fish and seafood. Seafood Processing Global will represent every aspect of seafood processing, including: processing and packaging materials and equipment, refrigeration/freezing equipment and supplies, primary and secondary processing equipment, hygiene control/sanitation and seafood industry services.

Exhibiting companies will present their products to global buyers, including restaurants, supermarkets, hotels, catering services, importers, distributors, wholesalers, seafood markets and other retail and foodservice companies.

Seafood Expo Global and Seafood Processing Global form the world's largest seafood trade event. Thousands of buyers and suppliers from around the world attend the annual, three-day exposition in Brussels, Belgium, to meet, network and do business. Attending buyers represent importers, exporters, wholesalers, restaurants, supermarkets, hotels, and other retail and foodservice companies.

Exhibiting suppliers offer the newest seafood products, processing and packaging equipment, and services available in the seafood market. SeafoodSource.com is the exposition's official media.