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Technology gives certainty to seafood purchases

Dealer’s software ensures catch is local, high-quality, and worth the extra price

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  • Red’s Best has developed a software program that promotes fish caught by local fishermen by providing buyers with detailed information about each catch.
    DINA RUDICK/GLOBE STAFF
    Red’s Best has developed a software program provides buyers with detailed information about fish caught by local fishermen.
  • Bill Thistlewood prepares to weigh razor clams at Ipswich’s town wharf for sale to Red’s.
    MARK LORENZ FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
    Bill Thistlewood prepares to weigh razor clams at Ipswich’s town wharf for sale to Red’s.
  • Andrew Sullivan records information, including type of catch and name of captain, that will be stored on an electronic receipt.
    MARK LORENZ FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE
    Andrew Sullivan records information, including type of catch and name of captain, that will be stored on an electronic receipt.
  • The catch is trucked to Red’s Best warehouse at Boston Fish Pier for processing.
    DINA RUDICK/GLOBE STAFF
    The catch is trucked to Red’s Best warehouse at Boston Fish Pier for processing.
  • Eric Morris, a salesman at Red’s Best, consults the company’s harvest tracking technology while making sales calls. The dealer provides buyers with a receipt that documents that the fish they are buying is the real thing.
    DINA RUDICK/GLOBE STAFF
    Eric Morris, a salesman at Red’s Best, consults the company’s harvest tracking technology while making sales calls.
  • A Red’s worker packages boxes of knobby conch and readies them for shipment worldwide.
    A Red’s worker packages boxes of knobby conch and readies them for shipment worldwide.
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