Technology gives certainty to seafood purchases

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Red’s Best has developed a software program provides buyers with detailed information about fish caught by local fishermen.

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Bill Thistlewood prepares to weigh razor clams at Ipswich’s town wharf for sale to Red’s.

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Andrew Sullivan records information, including type of catch and name of captain, that will be stored on an electronic receipt.

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The catch is trucked to Red’s Best warehouse at Boston Fish Pier for processing.

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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.