____________________________________________________________________________________________ Lusamerica Foods
Fishing for the
Future
How Lusamerica Foods is leveraging sustainable fishing practices to bring back a once booming market
Lusamerica Foods( Lusamerica) offers grocery retailers, foodservice operators, restaurants, and broadline distributors a reliable source of domestic and imported seafood with innovative value-added seafood products. Director of Communications and Sustainability, Peter Adame, shares a more detailed overview of the business as it celebrates its 50th Anniversary:“ It all started with a first-generation Portuguese couple, Fernando and Ana Frederico, who moved to California in search of the American Dream. They founded Lusamerica Foods in 1975 and, fifty years later, it continues to be a family-owned and operated seafood wholesaler, processor, and distributor, and has grown to be one of the largest along the US West Coast.
“ With around 500 employees, our headquarters is in Morgan Hill, CA, just south of Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. We also have facilities just outside of Seattle, WA, and in Los Angeles, California. Between those three hubs and our own fleet of trucks, we distribute fresh and frozen seafood to the whole West Coast, as well as some frozen seafood nationally.
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