Tom Seaman, editorial director of Undercurrent News, brings you a roundup of the main stories from the previous week

US importer and processor Stavis Seafoods hopes to build and open a new headquarters and processing facility in Boston, Massachusetts, by late next year and bring its recently purchased plant in nearby New Bedford online in mid-January, Nick Sambides Jr. revealed last week. 

Stavis plans to sign a lease for the new Boston property at an undisclosed location in mid-December, ending a years-long search for a new building in Boston's Seaport section. The move will help Stavis answer burgeoning demand for its products, president David Lancaster told Nick. 

A sizeable cut in the 2022 total allowable catch (TAC) level for the main US pollock fishery in the Bering Sea looks to be coming amid a hot market for fillets and surimi. 

A large number of small fish and a reduced estimate of the pollock biomass means scientists from the North Pacific Fishery Management Council's plan team are recommending a 2022 acceptable biological catch (ABC) level of 1.111 million metric tons, 19% lower than the 2021 TAC. Lowering the ABC, which by law has to be set higher or equal to the TAC, is therefore likely to mean a lower TAC for 2022. 

It's the final frontier of shrimp aquaculture, the potential answer to the myriad of disease issues affecting modern production, and a route to more regular, predictable harvests -- but high mortality rates remain a thorn in the side of early adopters of recirculating shrimp farms [...]