NEW BEDFORD, MA (March 18, 2009) – This city ships everything from sea scallops to skate fillets around the world, and Tuesday the world — or at least its seafood buyer representatives — came to bear witness to the origins of their imports.
As impressed as the two dozen or so buyers were with New Bedford’s seafood industry, particularly the scallop processing on a huge scale, it was the 14-pound lobster that Paul Rego of Northern Wind. Inc. hoisted for the cameras that briefly stole the show.
That diversion aside, the buyers, who hailed from China, Colombia, Egypt, Thailand, Turkey, France, Aruba and Bermuda, got an inside look at how 21st-century computer technology and advanced processing equipment is producing a higher quality product than ever and shipping it fast almost anywhere on the planet.
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