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Looking down on the action at the 2008 Boston Seafood Show. PHOTO: Ben DiPietro The show kicked off Saturday night with the NFI chowder party, and guests sampled some chowder. Peter Gati and Bente Sannes of Storm Seafood, which sells Norwegian farmed salmon in the United States. Gertrud Gastel and Lisa Goche of Surefish at the NFI chowder party. Bruce Gore of Triad Fisheries and Mark Tupper of Tupper Foods discuss the sale of Triad to Tupper Foods. Lee French, seafood buyer for the Price Chopper supermarket chain, says training of retail counter staff is of paramount importance as consumers get more educated about seafood issues. Winners of 2008 Seafood Choices Alliance Seafood Champions awards. From left: Barton Seaver of Hook Restaurant; Mike Mitchell of Young's Seafood owner Foodvest; Tim Lathrop, president, Plitt Co.; Seafood Choices Alliance Executive Director Mike Boots; Sally Eason, CEO, Sunburst Trout Co.; Hugues Autret, president, AGLIA; and Bart van Olphen, Fishes. Todd Allen (left) and Dan Otness of the IntraFish sales team workng hard on the show floor. Bob Leavenwood, Pacific Seafood, shows off company's new shrimp products. What's a seafood show without samples to munch on? Hamid Ali Dahma Bin Salman Al-Nahdi represents the Blue Ocean brand of canned tuna and sardines from Oman. The team from Sunburst Trout Co. continues to receive accolades for the company's trout caviar. Actor Paul Sorvino, booth models by his side, does some meeting and greeting to promote his new shrimp and crab cake line of products. Celebrity chef Martin Yan whips up some shrimp in Thai lemongrass sauce with red and yellow peppers during cooking demonstration at Tai Foong USA booth. Nick Furman of Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission and Ewell Smith of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board talk business on the show floor. Steve Lutz of Perishables Group presents the latest data on retail seafood sales and trends. Greenpeace investigator Mark Floegel says report ranking U.S. retailers on the sustainability of their seafood sourcing policies is due out this summer. Laurie and Jim Bugbee of QVD USA discuss their deal with Australis Aquaculture under which QVD will supply Australis with basa fillets. Peter Fraser of Saudi Arabia-based National Prawn Company says the company will exceed 15,000 tons of production of Peneaus indicus shrimp this year. Bart van Olphen of Netherlands-based Fishes, winner of a 2008 Seafood Champions award from the Seafood Choices Alliance. Talking story and sharing some aloha with the gang from Hilo Fish Co. The

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