Tag: Seafood

New Opening Date for Calif. Dungeness Season

1/5/2025 - By nationalfisherman.com. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has announced that the commercial Dungeness crab fishery from the Sonoma/Mendocino County line to the U.S./Mexico border will open on January 5, 2025, at 12:01 a.m. A pre-soak period will begin today, January 2, 2025, at 8:01 a.m. This area, covering… SEE MORE

Advocacy can Anchor Seafood in U.S. Food Systems

12/15/2024 - By Carli Stewart. In a time when the commercial fishing community faces challenges on many fronts, ensuring seafood becomes an integral part of national food systems requires more than hard work on the water. As political opportunities evolve, the seafood sector must strengthen its advocacy efforts to gain the support… SEE MORE

2024 Alaska Symphony of Seafood Call for Entries

11/8/2024 - By nationalfisherman.com. Exciting updates to this year’s Alaska Symphony of Seafood competition make it better than ever for participants! With streamlined categories and more opportunities for your product to shine, the 2024 Alaska Symphony of Seafood is the perfect stage to showcase your latest Alaska seafood innovations and contribute to seafood excellence,… SEE MORE

Pacific Seafood to Acquire Trident Kodiak Plant

11/6/2024 - By nationalfisherman.com. Trident Seafoods and Pacific Seafood jointly announced that they have agreed in principle for Pacific to acquire Trident’s Kodiak processing operations. The companies are currently completing the due diligence process and expect to finalize the transaction in November. Both parties are united in their commitment to providing job security and ensuring… SEE MORE

AI Transforms Fisheries with Stocking, Processing, and Profit Boosts

11/5/2024 - By Paul Molyneaux. Artificial Intelligence (AI) will change fisheries in many ways. The advent of convolutional neural networks (CNN) has dramatically increased the power of computer vision systems used for stock assessments and bycatch monitoring. Other software programs interpret engine data and vessel performance data to increase efficiency and reduce… SEE MORE

The Salty, Sun-Dried Shrimp Paste That Tastes Like Home

10/30/2024 - By Sumer Rao. A fermented seafood delicacy keeps the Karen people of India connected to their homeland in Myanmar. Our dungi, a six-meter-long dugout canoe, chugs mechanically along the western coastline of India’s North Andaman island. Saw Atto, a veteran shrimp fisher and the captain for this voyage, turns the wooden… SEE MORE

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

9/9/2024 - 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

Saltwater Aquaculture Is More Climate-Friendly than Freshwater Aquaculture

9/3/2024 - By Barbara Pinho. As the aquaculture industry grows, new research finds that seafoods raised in marine waters have a smaller carbon footprint than those raised in fresh water. The world’s aquaculture industry is booming. And it’s no wonder—overfishing in the open ocean has caused populations of many commercially caught fish… SEE MORE

American Seafoods Relaunches $150K Grant Program for Western Alaska

8/23/2024 - By Carli Stewart. American Seafoods Group relaunched its grant program last week, now known as the American Seafoods Community Partnership Program. American Seafoods is the largest at-sea processor of wild Alaska pollock and hake in the U.S. and is based in Seattle, Washington. The program provides donations to organizations and… SEE MORE

United Nations Endorses New “Guidelines for Sustainable Aquaculture”

7/21/2024 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. NOAA provided scientific expertise on the guidelines, which will develop global aquaculture best practices. More seafood is currently produced via farming, or aquaculture, than is harvested from the wild, according to a recent United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report. As more people globally rely on seafood farming… SEE MORE