The 2025 Pacific halibut fishery officially opened on March 20 th, launching under a cloud of challenges that continue to shape the market. The season begins amid concerns over low recruitment and a ...
On Friday, March 28, 2025, U.S. Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal and U.S. Representatives John Larson and Rosa DeLauro sent a joint letter to U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Howard ...
This morning Ocean Beauty Seafoods and Icicle Seafoods announced the merger of their salmon and Gulf of Alaska groundfish operations to form a new company called OBI Seafoods. The announcement has ...
Stanley Pearlman Enterprises, the parent company of North Atlantic Fish Company (NAFCO) and Congressional Seafood Company), announced this week that they have officially broke ground on a new cold ...
The high price of domestic scallops is leading to a surge in scallop imports this year. In August, total imports of scallops were up 250% over the 2012 monthly volume. So far this year, scallop ...
Last week, China said it would begin accepting applications for tariff exemptions for 696 U.S. products, including over 40 seafood products imported from the United States. Chinese companies looking ...
As we reported last week, a new ownership group has bought the assets of National Fish & Seafood, which ceased operations on May 10, 2019. The new group has retained the prior sales and executive ...
According to a member report compiled by the National Surimi Manufacturers Association based in Abashiri, Hokkaido, the volume of frozen surimi produced in Hokkaido in January was 797 tons, up 49% ...
The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) revamped its AboutSeafood.com website last week. The group wants to connect the seafood community and improve access to vital information. The new website ...
According to Argentinian Customs Statistics, shrimp exports increased by 9.2% in 2024, reaching 154k metric tons compared to 141k MT in 2023. However, Q4 declined by 5.5%, and the latest data shows a ...
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded $47 million to Massachusetts-based Channel Fishing Processing and Seattle-based Trident Seafoods for just over 21 million pounds of Alaska pollock ...
The Northwest Aquaculture Alliance (NWAA) filed a lawsuit against Washington State’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for its ban of commercial finfish net pen aquaculture in state waters. NWAA ...