{"id":140864,"date":"2026-02-21T09:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140864\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T09:41:08","slug":"from-mazara-to-manhattan-the-fishing-district-opens-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140864\/","title":{"rendered":"From Mazara to Manhattan: the Fishing District opens in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"atext\">The Distretto Produttivo della Pesca di Mazara del Vallo is preparing to land in New York. According to the information in our possession, a sales outlet will be opened in the next few months in Soho, one of the symbolic districts of international retail. It is a project that aims to bring Sicilian fish and processed products &#8211; canned, semi-preserved, smoked, frozen products &#8211; to the heart of Manhattan, giving the island&#8217;s fishing industry a commercial and cultural leap in scale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"atext\">The initiative is supported by the Regional Department of Productive Activities headed by Edy Tamajo and is operationally followed by the Department&#8217;s Director General, Dario Cartabellotta. The institutional direction is intertwined with an internationalisation strategy that the District has been pursuing for some time, with a specific focus on the United States. Only a few operational details are missing for the final go-ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"atext\">The District, based in Mazara del Vallo, is the public reference body for the Sicilian fishing industry: artisanal and industrial fishing, processing, aquaculture. Acknowledged by the Sicilian Region as a research body, it is the interlocutor of politics and institutions on issues of sustainability, traceability and innovation. It comprises 134 companies and employs 2,200 people; 46 bodies, associations and research institutes operate alongside the production entities, forming an integrated ecosystem that generates a turnover of between 256 and 265 million euro per year, of which more than 60 million from exports to more than 20 countries. On average, 50% of the value of Sicilian fish products is exported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"atext\">Also active within the District is the Mediterranean Fisheries Observatory, a scientific platform that collects fundamental data for territorial planning and interventions. A structure that strengthens the credibility of the New York project, basing it on numbers and market analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"atext\">The American project does not come about suddenly. In previous official communications from the District, District President Nino Carlino had already outlined the trajectory towards the US market in recent months: &#8216;The companies that are already structured are waiting for the first products on the American market,&#8217; he had explained: &#8216;Preserved, semi-preserved, frozen&#8217;. And again: &#8216;The goal is to be 100 per cent operational by 2026&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Distretto Produttivo della Pesca di Mazara del Vallo is preparing to land in New York. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-140864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}