Icebrand Seafoods Inc.

New Report Exposes the Black Market for White Gold; Illegal Chilean Sea Bass Still Entering Country at Alarming Rate
U.S. Newswire; 9/21/2004; 1207 words; ...misrepresenting where the fish was caught, and removing importers names from documents. Arnold Bengis, and his company Icebrand Seafoods Inc., used the existing loophole of misrepresentation of species name to import toothfish into the United States...

South African Tycoon Gets Prison Term in Lobster Scam.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 6/2/2004; 822 words; ...Fishing Industries, Ltd., in Cape Town and as the principal in two New York-based dealers, Icebrand Seafoods, Inc. and Associated Sea Fisheries Inc. It began to unravel in May 2001, when South African officials seized a shipping container...

Smuggling suspect released on bond
Portland Press Herald (Maine); 8/13/2003; 335 words; ...federal prosecutors to an international seafood smuggling scheme has been released...African nationals to process illegal seafood at Icebrand Seafoods, Inc. without valid work permits and participating...Copyright 2003 Blethen Maine Newspapers Inc.

In the courts.(summary of various cases)
The Food Institute Report; 8/11/2003; 873 words; ...MaineToday.com (Aug. 8). ... Portland, ME-based Icebrand Seafoods Inc. participated in an international smuggling ring...in Manhattan. Investigators say the owner of the seafood processing company, which is best known for flash...

SMUGGLING CHARGE HASN'T AFFECTED MAINE PLANT ; The owner of a lobster processing plant has been charged in New York, but it's `business as usual' here.
Portland Press Herald (Maine); 8/8/2003; 608 words; ...men and charged with smuggling seafood from South Africa. Marc Bouthillette...process Maine lobster, and Icebrand Seafoods Inc., a Manhattan company owned...company known at the time as Icebrand Seafood Inc. announced plans to build a...