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Mississippi Seafood Giant Hit with $1M Fine for Fish Scheme

9/9/2024 by Param Bhatia

By Carli Stewart. A Mississippi seafood distributor, Quality Poultry and Seafood Inc. (QPS), and two corporate managers pleaded guilty to conspiring with others today. According to the Office of Public Affairs, they mislabeled seafood and committed wire fraud by marketing inexpensive and frozen imported substitutes as more expensive and premium… SEE MORE

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Maine Lobster Boat Racing season’s home stretch

9/8/2024 by Param Bhatia

By Michael Crowley. The weekend of August 17 and 18 was the last complete weekend for Maine’s 2024 lobster boat racing season with races held at Long Island on Saturday. Then the boats ran about 6 miles to the West for Sunday’s races in Portland. Forty-eight boats raced at Long… SEE MORE

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Boat of the Month: F/V Ironic

9/7/2024 by Param Bhatia

By Paul Molyneaux. Some of the most interesting commercial fishing vessels on the water are owner-built. The design and functionality of a fishing vessel that moves from imagination to final form through the work of the people who will take it to sea are almost always unique. Along those lines,… SEE MORE

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Crafting the Perfect Lampara Net for California’s Evolving Bait Fishery

9/6/2024 by Param Bhatia

By Paul Molyneaux. Eureka, California fisherman and innovator Ken Bates strives to build the perfect lampara net. Into his 70s now, Ken Bates has seen decades of fishing on the coast of northern California. He spent 35 winters gillnetting row herring in Humboldt Bay and fished for sardines and anchovies… SEE MORE

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