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USDA to buy $52m worth of Pacific groundfish, other species, partly in response to Ukraine losses

The amount is more than half the request for $90.5m worth of pink shrimp, rockfish and hake sought by the West Coast Seafood Processors Association and Oregon Trawl Commission

By Jason Huffman | May 15, 2023 15:41 BST
Pacific whiting (hake) ready for processing. Photo courtesy of Sogda.
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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has agreed to buy $52 million worth of groundfish and other seafood products from US West Coast states in an apparent move to help that sector recover from losses due to COVID and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, according to a statement from a group of lawmakers from the US state of Oregon [...]

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