Seafood Expo Global 2026, Barcelona

We’re still catching up with all the opportunities we had at Seafood Expo Global 2026 in Barcelona, where we were part of the Seafood Scotland pavilion. It was easily Loch Duart Salmon’s busiest Seafood Expo, and the event had a record 35,500 visitors  this year. Over the three days we met colleagues, friends, and customers from all over the world.

By showcasing our unique, award winning, heritage breed of farmed salmon at the Expo we were able to give people who visited our stand, first-hand experience of the versatility and quality of Loch Duart Salmon.

What raised the standard of this Seafood Expo even further was the outstanding support from experienced sushi instructor Chef Tonio who shared his skills by preparing sushi and sashimi from our fresh Loch Duart Salmon. It was fantastic having him on the stand every day, especially as the Seafood Scotland pavilion 2026 theme was “Year of the Chef”.

Our new content creator Robert MacInnes, who was on hand to capture the buzz and activity at the Expo, spoke to Chef Tonio and asked him why he chooses Loch Duart Salmon to work with.

“Loch Duart Salmon is the best, for me, in the world because of the texture, the taste and the ethic of this product. With the back we make sashimi, with the belly we make nigiri sushi and with the tail we make rolls as maki sushi,” explained Chef Tonio. “We’ve got this beautiful salmon, which is absolutely stunning to make sashimi with, and it tastes amazing.”

Loch Duart always chooses quality over quantity when it comes to raising our fish and the proof of this is in the taste, no matter how it’s served, something which Chef Tonio highlighted when talking about how he uses our salmon.

“What I love in Loch Duart Salmon is the balance between the flesh and fat. It’s perfect. There is not much fat and that is what we need to make beautiful sushi.”

For Loch Duart, there are no shortcuts and no comprises when it comes to raising our salmon in the pristine waters of the north west of Scotland. The feedback we had from the people we met at Seafood Expo Global, Barcelona was that our low impact farming approach is why Loch Duart is their salmon of choice.

You can see Chef Tonio explaining to Loch Duart’s Robert MacInnes why Loch Duart Salmon is perfect for raw dishes such as sushi.

Watch Chef Tonio work with Loch Duart Salmon at Seafood Expo Global, Barcelona.

We’d like to thank everyone who worked hard to make the event such a success, our amazing Loch Duart Salmon team in Barcelona and of course the team back in Scotland; we’d also like to thank everyone from Seafood Scotland and Scottish Development International.

These events are vital for premium Scottish food producers to showcase the country’s amazing produce and to meet with international buyers and markets.

And lastly, we’d like to thank Chef Tonio for his amazing skills, which showcased Loch Duart Salmon so perfectly to everyone at Seafood Expo.

“It’s an amazing  product; you have to taste it!”

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