Seafood Watch mulls red ‘avoid’ rating for US, Canadian lobster fisheries
A US seafood rating organization famous for using traffic-sign color-coding to grade sustainability is proposing to mark Canadian and American lobstermen as 'avoid'
After savage hurricanes, Louisiana seafood firms lobby for aid
'I think you will see some hard times in oysters over the next two or three years, and with saltwater finfish, you're seeing some crazy inflationary prices in some places and no production in others' -- Harlon Pearce
Alabama bill would give ag-style tax breaks to commercial harvesters
The Alabama bill faces at least one difficulty. It does not specify how much in tax revenues would be lost to city and county governments if it were adopted
P&P vessel makes huge blue whiting spillage off coast of France
The Margiris, the second-largest super-trawler in the world, spilled more than 100,000 dead blue whiting in the Atlantic after a net ruptured
Loch Duart begins operations with Scotland’s first hybrid feed barge
The new barge is powered by a hybrid system that should reduce the Oldany site's diesel consumption by roughly 60%, Loch Duart claims
US House passes trade competitiveness bill with SIMP expansion provisions
The US House of Representatives has voted, 222-210, to pass HR 4521, the America Competes Act, including a provision that would expand SIMP to cover all species
Three crew from sunken Intershell vessel recovering from severe hypothermia
The US Coast Guard and local rescue crews arrived to find the men clinging to an inflatable hose used to stir up the ocean bed in search of scallops and surf clams
Washington state’s Dungeness season setting records
Overall Dungeness poundage so far this year has been impressive, and the prices fetched more so, but a market glut and green-crab infestation are on the horizon
Opinion: SIMP expansion coming from unexpected source
Priority 'US-China' bills targeted to the broader economy and working their way through the House of Representatives and Senate containing SIMP-related provisions
American Seafoods brings in exec to advise on fishing, downstream M&A
PE backer of American Seafoods has brought in a seasoned M&A executive to look at both upstream and downstream deals, sources told Undercurrent News