Maine Shellfish Company
Maine Shellfish Company
Maine Shellfish Company
✕Part of the leading wholesale seafood processor and distributor business Ipswich Shellfish Company, Maine Shellfish Company offers a variety of fresh and frozen seafood products. Live lobsters, fresh soft shell clams, Maine shrimp, local scallops, fresh lobster meat and custom cut fresh fillets are only a few of the signature items they offer. From their locations in Ellsworth and Kennebunk, ME, Maine Shellfish company service world-class food service operations throughout the State of Maine. The company's fleet of trucks will deliver directly to foodservice operation or retail market customers their full line of shrimp, fish fillets, scallops, live lobsters, soups, oysters, mussels, minced clams, soft shell clams, hard shell clams and fresh lobster meat.
Sustainability is a core value for Ipswich Shellfish Company and all of its facilities. Maine Shellfish Company is part of a larger effort to help customers understand the sustainability of the seafood they buy and Ipswich Shellfish Company is working to create a system for its facilities that will allow all customers to assess the sustainability of the products they buy. The company is committed to encouraging wild-scale sustainability improvements and has partnered with various vendors and NGO partners to advance sustainable fishing initiatives throughout the industry. The company also recognizes that not all seafood products meet sustainability standards and have partnered with NGOs, along with local fishermen and their communities, to help support and implement fishery and aquaculture improvement projects meant to advance the environmental performance of fisheries and fish farms.
Distribution Regions and Business Locations
- Asia
- Canada - Atlantic
- Canada - Central & Interior
- Canada - Northwest
- Canada - Pacific
- USA - Alaska
- USA - California
- USA - Gulf of Mexico
- USA - Hawaii
- USA - Mid Atlantic
- USA - Midwest
- USA - New England
- USA - Pacific Northwest
- USA - Rockies & Southwest
- USA - South Atlantic
- USA - Southeast
Seafood Product | Origin | Harvest Method | Sustainability Rating | FIP Source |
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American Lobster |
USA - Gulf of Maine |
Pot/Trap | ||
Atlantic Pollock |
USA - Gulf of Maine |
Set Gillnets | ||
Blue Mussels |
USA - Maine (FIP) |
Hand Dredges | ||
Blue Mussels |
USA - Maine (FIP) |
Hand Implements | ||
Longfin Squid |
USA - Mid-Atlantic (MSC) |
Bottom Trawls | ||
Sea Scallops |
USA - Atlantic (MSC) |
Dredge Harvest | ||
Silver Hake |
USA - Gulf of Maine |
Bottom Trawls | ||
Softshell Clams |
USA - Maine |
Hand Implements | ||
Summer Flounder |
USA - Atlantic |
Bottom Trawls | ||
Winter Flounder |
USA - Gulf of Maine |
Bottom Trawls | ||
Yellowfin Tuna |
USA - Northwest Atlantic |
Drifting Longlines | ||
Yellowtail Flounder |
USA - Gulf of Maine |
Bottom Trawls |