EMEA editor Neil Ramsden brings you a roundup of the main stories from the previous week
The most-read story of last week saw the union that represents fish harvesters in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador file a grievance against Royal Greenland-owned Quin Sea Fisheries over prices paid to lobster harvesters this season. In a post on its Facebook page, the Fish Food and Allied Workers claimed the processor back-dated lobster receipts earlier this year so harvesters would not get price increases for the latter part of the season.
And North America's leading supplier of canned herring says the Canadian government's decision to slash the fish's quota by nearly 25% in the Bay of Fundy could have a devastating impact on its operation. "We've modified our business significantly over the past few years to cope with quota reductions, but this latest cut will mean the plant, as it operates today, could struggle moving forward," Matt Walsh, director of marine resources at the Connors Brothers factory in the province of New Brunswick, told Undercurrent News.
Snow crab sellers have an uneasy feeling right now about the state of the wholesale Chionoecetes opilio market in the US, where prices haven't budged much for months, even though the Canadian harvest seasons are almost completely wrapped up for the year.
For the rest of last week's biggest headlines, click the bullet points below:
- 'Rumblings' of EU ban on $1.6bn-plus Russian seafood imports get louder, says Klausen
- Alaska’s pink salmon harvest shrinks statewide
- Rodger May withdraws request for Peter Pan assets amidst threat of harvester backlash
- Japan hunts first fin whale in 50 years
- NESI returns to shellfish with deal for UK's largest crab processor
- Skretting shuts down US factory as Canada moves toward ban on open net pens in BC
- Week 32 Indian shrimp prices stabilize, fall in Vietnam, Indonesia
- US shrimp imports finish first half down by 3% after rough month of June
- AquaBounty posts $50.5m loss in Q2, cash reserves plummet to $700K
- Subway tuna supplier RD revives US cannery plans with focus on private label
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