---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-25-014518"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BSFC"
cik: "0001730773"
company_name: "Blue Star Foods Corp."
filed_at: "2025-09-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T05:53:22.904039+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Blue Star Foods dismisses MaloneBailey, appoints GreenGrowth CPAs as auditor

## Summary
- Audit Committee chose not to continue with MaloneBailey; dismissal effective September 19, 2025.
- No disagreements or reportable events with MaloneBailey in fiscal years 2023 or 2024.
- GreenGrowth CPAs engaged to audit FY 2025 financial statements and interim periods.
- No prior consultations with GreenGrowth on accounting or audit matters.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-25-014518
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BSFC
- cik: 0001730773
- company_name: Blue Star Foods Corp.
- filed_at: 2025-09-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730773/000149315225014518/0001493152-25-014518-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730773/000149315225014518/form8-k.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Blue Star Foods Corp. dismissed MaloneBailey, LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: MaloneBailey, LLP
  source text: On September 16, 2025, the Audit Committee (the “Audit Committee”) of the Board of Directors of Blue Star Foods Corp. (the “Company”) chose not to continue with the engagement of MalonBailey, LLP (“MalonBailey”), which is currently serving as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm. The Company notified MaloneBailey on September 19, 2025, that it would be dismissed as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730773/000149315225014518/0001493152-25-014518-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Blue Star Foods Corp. engaged GreenGrowth CPAs as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: GreenGrowth CPAs
  source text: On September 19, 2025, the Audit Committee approved the engagement of GreenGrowth CPAs (“GreenGrowth”) as the Company’s new independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately, to audit the Company’s financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025 and related interim periods.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730773/000149315225014518/0001493152-25-014518-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.