Top 10 Seafood Suppliers In The United States

Understanding how the top seafood suppliers achieved their success from coast to coast is crucial for seafood businesses.

For your learning, here’s information on the top seafood suppliers, including research on where they operate and how much revenue they generate.

1. Tri Marine International

Tri Marine International is a seafood industry giant that’s the number one global supplier of raw tuna, offering a variety of products, including canned fish or loins, skipjack, yellowfin, albacore, sardines, squid, and ultra-low temperature sashimi grade. 

In 2023, they generated an annual revenue of $33.4 billion dollars USD. Tri Marine International upholds traceability as a core business value and is popular among buyers because of its vertical integration model and dedication to social responsibility, quality, and sustainable environmental practices.

Tri Marine International is based in Bellevue, Washington and has processing plants in Noro, Solomon Islands; Manta, Ecuador; and Barranquilla, Columbia. It operates its own carriers, ships and vessels, including 14 purse seiners. 

2. Cooke Aquaculture

Cooke Aquaculture is a Canadian-based company that started in Black Harbour, New Brunswick in 1985 and is now headquartered in Saint John, New Brunswick, though it works closely with American businesses.

The company reached new economic growth, achieving an annual revenue of $4 billion USD as of 2023. Its fish farming practices produce salmon and catch wild shrimp, scallops, salmon, cod, oysters, sea bream, sea bass, and crab, among other seafood and shellfish products.

Cooke Aquaculture has expanded its market by acquiring Wanchese Fish Company, Icicle Seafoods, Cooke Uruguay, Omega Protein, and Seajoy. It also owns Cooke Aquaculture Scotland, Cooke Aquaculture Chile, Cooke Seafood USA, True North Seafood Company, Grupo Culmarex, Conners, Obi, and Tassel Group. 

3. High Liner Foods

High Liner Foods Incorporated is a public company and Canadian brand based in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. However, its headquarters is in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and it now produces its annual sales report in U.S. dollars. 

High Liner Foods sells its products under High Liner, Mirabel, Catch of the Day, Fisher Boy, and Sea Cuisine in club and grocery stores throughout Canada and the United States. Additionally, it sells its brands High Liner, Mirabel, FPI, and Icelandic Seafood to institutions, private labels, and restaurants. 

As of December 31, 2022, the company’s annual revenue was $1.09 billion USD. 

4. Bumble Bee Seafoods

Bumble Bee Foods started 120 years ago when a group of canners from Oregon formed the Columbia River Packers Association and decided to sell salmon. The company officially became Bumble Bee Seafoods in 1960 when it was acquired by a San Diego-based company in 2015. 

Its most popular product is canned tuna, but it also sells over 30 species of nutritious, protein-rich, and sustainable seafood, including clams, crab, oysters, tilapia, canned salmon, and sardines. 

Bumble Bee Seafoods sells its products under Clover Leaf in Canada and Bumble Bee, Wild Selections, Beach Cliff, Brunswick, and Snows in the United States. 

Its annual revenue in 2023 was $638.7 million USD. 

5. Chicken of the Sea

Chicken of the Sea is a rapidly growing brand whose division also includes Asian Gold and Xcellent. Its parent company, Thai Union Frozen Products, in Thailand, is a global seafood conglomerate and one of the largest seafood suppliers in the world. It is North America's number one importer of frozen shrimp, mainly offering White Vannamei and Black Tiger. 

This company is based in San Diego, California and has a state-of-the-art processing facility in Lyons, Georgia. 

It made an annual revenue of $556 million USD in 2023 and has a private label with an undisclosed annual revenue. 

Concerned with sustainability in the supply chain, Chicken of the Sea has started shrimp improvement projects in Indonesia and India.

6. American Seafoods Group

American Seafoods Group is the largest producer of Alaska pollack and holds the largest allocation of Wild Pacific Hake. 

It operates a fleet of seven fishing vessels in the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean, priding itself on its reputation for sustainability and easy traceability, as you’re able to trace your order’s origin on its website.

While headquartered in Seattle, Washington and Dutch Harbour, Alaska, it also has facilities in Bayside, Canada, and offices in Aalborg, Denmark; Tokyo, Japan; and Dalian, China.  

In 2023, their revenue was $253.1 million USD.  

7. StarKist

StarKist, owned by the Dongwon Group in South Korea, has operated since 1969. Dongwon Group operates a total of 42 vessels, which includes the world’s largest purse seine fleet.

StarKist’s headquarters is in Reston, Virginia, and it has facilities in Guayaquil, Ecuador and Pago Pago, American Samoa. 

It was the first seafood company to manufacture single-serve pouch products, including Chicken Creations, Salmon Creations, and Tuna Creations. It’s the third-largest canned tuna brand in the U.S., specializing in albacore, skipjack, and yellowfin. 

In 2023, StarKist’s annual revenue was $210 million USD. 

8. Nippon Suisan USA

The Nissui Group is a Japanese company that started in 1911 with one fish trawler. Now, it’s one of the largest seafood companies in the world, with operations in Asia, South America, and Europe. Nippon Suisan USA is a subsidiary of the Nissui Group, headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

In the United States, Nippon Suisan USA owns King & Prince Seafood in Brunswick, Georgia; Unisea in Redmond, Washington; Gorton’s and F.W. Bryce in Gloucester, Massachusetts; and Glacier Fish Co. in Seattle. Nippon Suisan USA engages extensively in international trade, owning Nordic Seafood and J.P. Klausen & Co. in Denmark and Nordsee in Brazil. 

In 2021, Nippon Suisan USA announced an annual revenue of $209.2 million USD, with the Nissui Group as a whole reporting a total yearly revenue of $5.4 billion USD. 

9. Beaver Street Fisheries

Based in Jacksonville, Florida, Beaver Street Fisheries is a vertically integrated entity that imports, exports, manufactures, and distributes frozen food in the United States and globally. Generally, it follows the model that you should “treat your consumer as you would a friend and all else will follow.” 

Beaver Street Fisheries also operates under Sea Best, Island Queen Island Prince and HF’s Outstanding. It works in agriculture and with seafood and land meat. 

In 2023, Beaver Street Fisheries' revenue was $206.4 million USD.

10. Mazzetta Co.

Mazzetta Company LLC was started in 1987 by Tom Mazzetta, who is still involved today. This corporation is a fully integrated seafood importer, distributor, and producer, delivering over 100 million pounds of American lobster, crab, shrimp, mussels, and finfish each year. 

Mazzetta’s headquarters is in Londonderry, New Hampshire. In 2021, it expanded to Maine after acquiring Atwood Lobster. Mazetta has a Canadian processing company and facilities in the Bahamas. 

In 2022, Mazetta’s annual revenue was $32.2 million USD.

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