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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.
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      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.
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      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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