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Hygrade has been committed to providing top-quality bay and sea scallops since 1991. Now, with a whole fresh fish and fillet division, they continue to supply the finest seafood from a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of the seafood industry. Each day, Hygrade buyers make morning trips to the local docks of New Bedford, Massachusetts and purchase only the freshest domestic seafood. Imported fresh and frozen products are also selectively bought from all over the world. Hygrade relies on an experienced team of quality-control personnel and graders, ensuring only the highest-quality scallops and fish pass rigid standards of inspection.

Fisherman's Pride? Calamari brand is built on 70 years of dedication to a dream which started five generations ago with the Ruggiero family. Rocco Ruggiero revolutionized the American Calamari industry by designing state-of-the-art equipment that could quickly and inexpensively clean American-caught Loligo Pealei, making it competitive with hand-prepared imports. Ruggiero has processed over 250 million lbs. of domestic Calamari, and the Fisherman's Pride brand ranks as the number one cleaned Calamari in the United States.

In 1957, a small group of Mexican shrimp boat owners came together to market their flavorful harvest to North America. That humble association has since evolved into one of the largest seafood importer/marketing companies in the nation, a company called Ocean Garden. But, far more important than growth has been an unwavering commitment to securing and delivering the best possible shrimp and seafood products for discerning clientele. Their signature items are the world's finest wild and farm-raised Mexican shrimp. Additional products include Asian and Central/South American shrimp.

Sea Pearl is a family business, nurtured with family care and pride since 1966 in the Gulf Coast village of Bayou La Batre, Alabama, where shrimping has long been a way of life. Their unique heritage began in Alabama in the early 1700s as one of the first families to settle the area of Bayou la Batre. They make a living from the sea, with owners and operators whose knowledge and respect for the industry is rooted in years of working on their own shrimp boats. Sea Pearl focuses on strict quality-control standards every day and upgrade their plant each year, incorporating the latest measures of safety and assurance. Sea Pearl is regularly and continuously inspected, creating a mark of quality that began when it first opened for business 40 years ago.

The FDA is one of the primary Federal regulatory agencies responsible for seafood safety in the United States. It conducts mandatory surveillance programs with unannounced inspections of seafood processors, including packers, re-packers, and warehouses. Voluntary product inspection and grading is regulated by the United States Department of Commerce (USDC) and is available through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). It conducts fee based seafood inspection programs along with vessel and plant sanitation, product inspection, product grading and certification, label review, laboratory analysis, training, consultative and information services.

Fresh scallops, farm-raised tilapia, Chilean salmon, jumbo lump crabmeat, claw meat and crab fingers are delivered daily to our climate-controlled docks from all over the world. We also offer wild, safely caught mahi, sword fish, tuna and grouper, Dover sole, sea bass, and true American red snapper in fresh frozen form. Our shellfish includes domestic and international varieties of lobster tails, crawfish, scallops, calamari, an endless variety of shrimp, crab meat, king crab, softshell crab, and Alaskan crab. Our partners include Sea Pearl, Ocean Garden, Ruggiero Seafood and Hygrade.

At Halperns we take great pride in our seafood facility. Our purchasing, storage, cutting and packaging operations are unparalleled in the industry and we ensure our customers strict quality control and sanitation programs. We realize the importance of fresh fish and shellfish on your menu and are committed to providing you with the freshest, most interesting selections available at competitive prices each day.

Daily shipments of shellfish are flown to our facility with point of origin tags noting the harvest location, harvest date, shipper and shipping date. This information is vital to the success of our program as our shellfish are never more than six days from harvest. Our selection of Atlantic and Pacific oysters is vast and based on optimum seasonal availability. Our mussel selection includes Mediterranean, Prince Edward Island and main line. Clams are available in classic varieties of little neck, middle neck, top neck and cherrystone.

More than any other protein, seafood offers an endless variety of species from around the world, available in various product forms. Our buyers manage a daily supply of fresh, wild and farm-raised products and purchase to optimize the cycle of seasonal availability, giving you the best that the oceans of the world have to offer. Our resources allow us to leverage purchases of frozen seafood from global suppliers, resulting in tremendous savings to our customers.  We only purchase #1 or sushi-quality fish from day boat, farm-raised and imported sources and offer our selections in portion cut, fillets, and whole.

More than any other protein, seafood offers an endless variety of species from around the world, available