Responsible Seafood Summit Brings Retailers and Producers Together in Bangkok

The Responsible Seafood Summit convened seafood businesses and industry organizations in Bangkok from September 21 to 24. The four day program at the Shangri La Bangkok was the event’s 25th edition and was cohosted by the Global Seafood Alliance and the Center for Responsible Seafood.

Confirmed marketplace participants included Albertsons, ALDI, Bidfood, Captain D’s, Mark Foods, Meituan, Melco Resorts and Entertainment, Red Lobster, Waitrose and Walmart. Their presence placed sourcing expectations and consumer demand alongside production and sustainability issues.

The program opened with industry leaders from businesses and organizations including Vinh Hoan, UMIOS, the Norwegian Seafood Council and Thai Union. Global Seafood Alliance described the meeting as a forum for producers, processors, retailers, foodservice companies, researchers, certification bodies and nonprofit organizations.

Technical sessions covered the annual production survey, feed, tilapia, animal health and welfare, and fisheries improvement projects. An expanded markets and consumers track addressed the commercial side of responsible seafood rather than treating production practices in isolation.

The program also introduced four parallel deep dive tracks covering aquaculture, wild fisheries, subjects relevant across seafood, and shrimp. Speakers were scheduled to examine consumer purchasing, market diversification, sustainability trends in East Asia and the changing United States tariff environment.

This edition incorporated content associated with the Shrimp Summit, widening the program around one of aquaculture’s most internationally traded categories. The structure reflected how feed, health, trade policy, buyer requirements and consumer behavior can interact across the same value chain.

Industry field trips on the final day covered culinary applications, shrimp, tilapia, Thai Union operations, processing and wholesale seafood outlets. That format extended the meeting beyond conference presentations and gave participants direct exposure to parts of Thailand’s seafood sector.

The summit’s commercial significance lies in bringing major buyers into the same program as producers and assurance organizations. Agrilinkage has not used an attendance estimate because the organizer material reviewed for this article identified participants and program scope but did not provide a verified final delegate total.