Two seafood suppliers sued US-based National Fish and Seafood (NFS) in the months leading up to the Pacific Andes-owned company's closure, asking the recently-defunct company to pay $2.6 million (€2.3 million) for damages caused by unfulfilled purchase orders, according to a lawsuit filed May 8 in a Massachusetts federal court.

Singapore-based seafood supplier Crustrade said throughout 2017 and into the first half of 2018 National Fish "issued scores of purchase orders to Crustrade" for an amount exceeding $4.8 million (€4.3