PanaPesca USA

Premium Frozen Seafood for Over 30 Years

PanaPesca USA

Supplier of Premium Frozen Seafood for Over 30 Years

The Company

Structure

PanaPesca USA is a seafood importing and marketing company providing a reliable supply of a wide range of shellfish and select fin fish to the food service and retail industry.

Our products are sourced globally from long term supply partners that pack to our specifications.

We have extensive experience supporting supply programs to food service distributors, national and regional restaurant chains, retail organizations, and buying groups. We understand how to support those programs through the distribution chain, and how to manage often seasonal world wide supply logistics to assure year round continuity to our customers.

We are thankful for all the companies, big and small, that put their trust in us.

Structure

PanaPesca USA is a seafood importing and marketing company providing a reliable supply of a wide range of shellfish and select fin fish to the food service and retail industry. Products are sourced globally from long term supply partners that pack to our specifications. We have extensive experience supporting supply programs to food service distributors, national and regional restaurant chains, retail organizations, and buying groups. We understand how to support those programs through the distribution chain, and how to manage often seasonal world wide supply logistics to assure year round continuity to our customers. We are thankful for all the companies, big and small, that put their trust in us.

Quality Assurance

Controlling production from the source is essential to achieving the consistent performance that our customers expect of our products.

Production facilities are audited annually by internationally recognized third party food safety inspection organizations.

All products in our brand and in the brands of our customers are packed following approved specifications. In line testing is done according to HACCP process controls. Full laboratory analysis is done on all shipments.

Quality Assurance

Controlling production from the source is essential to achieving the consistent performance that our customers expect of our products. Production facilities are audited annually by internationally recognized third party food safety inspection organizations. All products in our brand and in the brands of our customers are packed following approved specifications. In line testing is done according to HACCP process controls. Full laboratory analysis is done on all shipments.

Innovations

We attempt to anticipate our customer’s needs by providing innovative, first to market, product categories and pack forms. These are some of those efforts.

1998 – Pioneered vacuum packed hard shell clam production in China. First company to import this category into the US.

1999 – Pioneered vacuum packed mussel production in Chile. First company to import this category into the US.

2000 – First to import a fully cleaned loligo calamari program from China.

2002 – First to supply tenderized calamari strips using gigas squid.

2003 – First to produce baby clam meat in natural juice.

2004 – Offered farm raised red drum.

2004 – First to Import the highest quality Thai Whole Flowered Octopus IQF.

2004 – Introduced Loligo Portion Packed Rings and Tentacles.

2005 – One of the first to offer imported Blue Catfish.

2006 – First to offer a complete line of todarodes calamari.

2006 – One of the first to offer farm raised cobia.

2006 – Introduced a full line of vacuum packed Tilapia Filets: Super Deep Skinned, Blood Line Removed.

2006 – Introduced a full line of Dover Sole.

2007 – Introduced vacuum packed greenshell mussels from New Zealand.

2007 – Partnered with Hillman oysters, the first company to market IQF post harvest processed oysters.

2007 – Introduced a full line of vacuum packed Pompano: Whole, butterflied and fillets.

2008 – Offered salt water farm raised barramundi.

2008 – First to Import the highest quality Philippine Whole Flowered Octopus, IQF.

2008 – Introduced a full line of Seabream and Seabass: Whole, Butterfly and Fillets.

2009 – Partnered with Sea Harvest, leading producer in South Africa of MSC certified Cape Hake, to market frozen at sea fillets.

2009 – Introduced Todarodes Portion Packed rings and tentacles as well as rings only.

2010 – Introduced pioneering skin pack line to retail, currently offering 25 different pack options.

2014 – Introduced farm raised Japanese sea bass.

2017 – Introduced the highest quality Indonesian Cooked Octopus Tentacles, Vacuum Packed.

2018 – Introduced vacuum packed Mediterranean Mussels from South Africa.

2019 – Introduced hand filleted, MSC certified, IQF Cape Hake fillets in multiple pack forms.

2019 – Introduced MSC certified, IQF Cape Hake Taco Portions.

2023 – Introduced MSC certified, fully cleaned Monterey Bay Domestic calamari program.

2023 – Introduced the highest quality whole cooked Octopus, vacuum packed.

2023 – Introduced the highest quality cooked Octopus sliced, vacuum packed.

The Panapesca Advantage

Sustainability

As an importer of a wide range of wild-caught and farm-raised seafood products sourced from all over the world, it is essential that PanaPesca USA supports the development of sustainability initiatives and organizations committed to improving seafood, fishery, and marine ecosystem sustainability.

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