EMEA deputy editor Dan Gibson brings you a roundup of the main stories from the previous week  

In the most-read story of last week, Chinook salmon trollers in Southeast Alaska were dealt a win by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in a multi-year lawsuit brought by the environmental group Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC).

The high court ruled on Aug. 16 that a lower-level federal court had "abused its discretion" in August 2022 when it vacated the troll fishery's incidental take statement, an essential document for fisheries that might impact endangered species. The lower court had originally sided with WFC on its 2020 complaint over the impact of the troll fleet's salmon harvests on the food supply for an endangered population of killer whales in Washington state's Puget Sound.

Elsewhere, Undercurrent News was reporting live from the annual Aquaculture Roundtable Series (TARS) show, held Aug. 14-15 in the Thai capital, Bangkok. TARS brought together experts from around the world to discuss markets, price trends and feed supply developments for a variety of tropical farmed fish species such as tilapia, pangasius and pompano at a challenging time for the sector. You can read all of Undercurrent's coverage from the show here.

Back in the US, Norwegian land-based aquaculture company AquaCon announced it was shifting its plans away from building four separate recirculating aquaculture systems across the country in favor of setting up a single 20,000-metric ton facility in northern Maryland state. AquaCon estimates the capex costs of the first phase, designed to produce 10,000t of head-on gutted weight salmon, to reach roughly $300 million.

For the rest of last week's biggest headlines, click the bullet points below:

• High-risk outlook prompts Norwegian analyst to downgrade Atlantic Sapphire target price
• OBI’s Petersburg, Alaska, plant cracks 100,000 cases of pink salmon
• US imports of Canadian snow crab up 19% in H1, on pace for another record
• Chinese authorities uncover fake shrimp scheme, importer arrested
• Google’s aquaculture AI spin-off to expand to Australia, Chile with new funding
• Scottish salmon export sales soar amid booming Asian, US markets
• Alaska senator Murkowski repeats call for tougher EU sanctions against Russian seafood
• US seafood retail sales drop nearly 4% amid shifting consumer behavior
• Week 33 shrimp prices jump in India, Vietnam, flat in Ecuador
• Bangkok skipjack prices decline further as WCPO FAD ban ends