{"id":3905,"date":"2011-05-05T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2011\/05\/05\/vietnam-and-france-take-top-honours-at-seafood-prix-delite\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:44:58","slug":"vietnam-and-france-take-top-honours-at-seafood-prix-delite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/vietnam-and-france-take-top-honours-at-seafood-prix-delite\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam and France take top honours at Seafood Prix d\u2019Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winners were selected from a field of 37 finalists.<\/p>\n<p>Vinh Hoan Corporation of Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam took the top award for <strong>best new retail product<\/strong> with its entry, Provocake. An innovative and healthy starter or light meal, this product features a fish cake made of pangasius, shrimp and mushrooms encircled by asparagus and tied with a green onion top.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>foodservice category<\/strong>, the top prize was given to Halieutis of Lorient, France for its product, Tambaqui Ribs. A new species to the European market, tambaqui is a cousin of the famous Amazonian piranha and is now farmed in Brazil. The structure of the fish allows for a rib portion that is similar in shape and presentation to pork ribs. Halieutis tops these portions with a tasty barbecue marinade.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the two grand prizes, the judges also gave five special awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prawn Antipasti from Heiploeg Group in Oostende, Belgium was awarded the <strong>Seafood Prix d\u2019Elite special award for Convenience<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Seafood Prix d\u2019Elite special prize for Health &amp; Nutrition<\/strong> was won by Agustson a\/s &amp; Marz Seafood a\/s of Vejle, Denmark for its product, Hot Smoked Tilapia<\/li>\n<li>Macrae Edinburgh, Part of Young\u2019s Seafood Ltd. of Livingston in the United Kingdom was given the <strong>Seafood Prix d\u2019Elite special award for Retail Packaging for i<\/strong>ts Laspang Souchong Tea Smoked Salmon<\/li>\n<li>Gilco Bvda of Evergem, Belgium was presented with a <strong>Seafood Prix d\u2019Elite special award for Originality<\/strong> for its product, Fruit and Fish.<\/li>\n<li>A new line of smoked salmon products from Loch Duart of Loch Carnan, Scotland was presented with a <strong>Seafood Prix d\u2019Elite special award for Seafood Product Line<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinh Hoan and Halieutis were awarded the top prizes in the 11th Seafood Prix d\u2019Elite new products competition at the European Seafood Exposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","category-seafood"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}