Edgewater's Pacific Scallops Win "Superior Gold Medal" From Leading North American Culinary Organization

GAITHERSBURG, MD--(Marketwire - June 2, 2008) - Edgewater Foods International, Inc. (OTCBB: EDWT), the first fully integrated shellfish producer with the largest private marine research hatchery in Canada, today announced that the Company's proprietary lead product, Pacific scallops, has received the "Superior Gold Medal" from American Masters of Taste, a leading independent culinary evaluation organization based in California.

"We are very excited and pleased to receive this award from such a prestigious independent culinary group," said Robert Saunders, Chairman, CEO and President of Edgewater. "It is a powerful confirmation of the quality of the additive-free, natural scallop products we have worked so diligently to develop. It strongly supports our drive to expand into large new markets in North America and abroad."

The Pacific scallop is a unique scallop with significantly increased growth, yield and disease resistance. Island Scallops Ltd. ("ISL"), a subsidiary of Edgewater Foods International, is the sole source of Pacific scallop seed in the world.

"Shucked Pacific scallops," the proprietary lead product of ISL, won in the "Scallops, North American" category for food service. The "triple blind" judging was conducted by a Masters of Taste panel headed by famed "Maître du Goût" (Master of Taste), Jesse Sartain.

"We commend the culinary commitment of the staff of Island Scallops, Ltd. for the excellence and innovation of their product lines. We applaud them," commented Chef Sartain, declaring Island Scallops a "U.S.A. Taste Champion."

The protocols of "triple blind" judging are designed to ensure accurate and fair judging results. Evaluators do not know:

1.   Who the manufacturer is.
2.   What the product variety or appellation is.
3.   What the other evaluators' scores and comments are.

The judging, announced May 23, 2008, was part of the ongoing U.S.A. Taste Championships founded in 1989 with the establishment of the Chefs in America Awards Foundation, whose professional Board Members gather weekly to conduct taste tests on a myriad of foodservice and retail grocery products.

Edgewater is focused on expanding future crops of its proprietary Pacific scallop, leveraging ISL's new processing facility (located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia), continuing infrastructure improvements, and increasing sales and marketing efforts. It also intends to leverage its proprietary hatchery technology to begin sablefish (black cod) production and ultimately enter the sablefish market in a significant way.

About Edgewater Foods International, Inc.

Edgewater Foods International Inc., a Nevada Corporation, is the parent company of Island Scallops Ltd. ("ISL"), a Vancouver Island aquaculture company. Established in 1989, ISL has successfully operated a scallop farming and marine hatchery business for over 18 years. ISL's facilities represent the largest private marine research hatchery and the first fully integrated shellfish producer in Canada.

Edgewater Foods is dedicated to the farming, processing and marketing of high quality, high value marine species: scallops and sablefish. Farmed Pacific scallops are unique to North America, and Edgewater is the predominant producer of live-farmed Pacific scallops.

The Pacific scallop is a hybrid developed by ISL through extensive research and development and proprietary hatchery technology that significantly increases growth yields while resisting disease. It is one of the largest scallops in the world, reaching about 15 cm in size and more than 1 pound in weight. The Company believes there is virtually no existing competition for producing this scallop. Edgewater is committed to rapidly expanding production and profits and financing aggressive growth, while maintaining quality and a healthy respect for a clean, sustainable marine environment.

Scallop farming is inherently a "green," environmentally sustainable industry. Scallops require clean water to grow and can only be harvested from clean waters. No chemicals or food are added to the environment, and cultured scallops are an organic food product. All scallop seed is produced in the Island Scallops' hatchery, so no native populations are exploited.

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