(from left) Austria, Elmer Rosario, RGE North America sales manager, Richard Barry of the National Fisheries Institute and the late Roberto G. Eduardo, RGE founder, at the 2016 Seafood Expo North America in Boston.
Eduardo’s launch of RGE was timely as the US earlier experienced a crab shortage. The taste of alimasag, which is said to be similar to Maryland’s blue crab, attracted well-known US crabmeat brands to import crab meat, and RGE became the premier supplier. The US market continues to be important for RGE due to the policy of the Trump administration, which limited the hiring of foreign crab pickers.