Canadian seafood companies pushed to extremes by worker shortage
In Canada, job vacancies increased by 63% from 560,215 in the fourth quarter of 2020 to 915,545 at the end of 2021
Whale entanglements force halt to almost all California Dungeness harvests
The whales got tangled up in Dungeness fishing gear off San Mateo County and in Monterey Bay
Newfoundland snow crab price negotiations $1.16 apart, widest gap ever
The US ban on Russian seafood means more concern than usual for the final price decision due from NL's Standard Fish Price Setting Panel by no later than April 4
Frank sells stakes in Russian Fishery, crab sister firm after US sanctions
Gleb Frank has sold his stakes in Russian Fishery and its sister crab harvesting firm to the companies' management after being hit with US government sanctions
US gov’t adds owner of Russian Fishery, crab sister firm to sanctions list
The US government added Gleb Frank, the owner of Russian Fishery Company and a sister crab firm, to its sanctions list on March 24
US Treasury extends arrival deadline for Russian seafood by nearly three months
The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control has moved the deadline for the arrival of Russian seafood shipments from March 25 to June 23
Huffman pauses further work on MSA until Alaska can replace Young
It's 'important all voices be heard in this MSA reauthorization process – and so, we will be pausing further committee consideration ...' -- representative Jared Huffman
Procedural move in US Congress sets up SIMP expansion showdown with Russia twist
'If you truly want to get to the Russian seafood, you need to have traceability requirements' -- Beth Lowell, Oceana
US reinstates tariff exclusions for haddock, sole, crabmeat imported from China
The tariff exclusion extensions will continue through Dec. 31, 2022, and be backwards-dated to apply as of Oct. 12, 2021
Alaska closes some Dungeness fisheries to aid subsistence harvesters
'They just wanted to push the commercial operators out just a short ways' -- Kurt Whitehead, state fish and game advisory committee member