{"id":118873,"date":"2025-11-03T05:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/118873\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T05:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T05:49:21","slug":"west-cork-firms-at-major-seafood-trade-show-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/118873\/","title":{"rendered":"West Cork firms at major seafood trade show in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Minister of State with responsibility for Fisheries Timmy Dooley has joined Bord Bia in Qingdao, China this week to attend Asia\u2019s largest seafood expo where two Cork companies are represented.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Minister Dooley is leading an agri-food trade mission to China in a bid to strengthen commercial and government-to-government relationships across Ireland\u2019s main export sectors, including seafood, meat and dairy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As part of the trade mission, Bord Bia is hosting two West Cork-based seafood companies \u2014 Castletownbere Fishermen\u2019s Co-op Society and Union Hall-based Glenmar Shellfish \u2014 along with seven other Irish seafood companies at the China Fisheries and Seafood Expo 2025, which runs from October 29th\u201331st at the Hongdao International Convention and Exhibition Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Expo, recognised as Asia\u2019s premier seafood trade event, is expected to attract around 50,000 professional visitors from over 130 countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Dooley said he was 10,000km from home but proud to be flying the flag with companies from Killybegs to Castletownbere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister of State with responsibility for Fisheries Timmy Dooley has joined Bord Bia in Qingdao, China this week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,4257,79,844,61,60,620],"class_list":{"0":"post-118873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cork-business","10":"tag-cork-news","11":"tag-fishing","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-west-cork"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}