Pacific Marine Expo blog: NOAA eyes electronic monitoring in Alaska by 2018; Catcher-processors keeping Seattle port busy
Undercurrent News is reporting live from the Seattle-based equipment and commercial fishing trade show which is the largest annual show on the west coast of the US
China firm planning Russia snow crab processing venture for booming US market
Chinese processor Ocean One Enterprise is planning to invest in a Russian plant to process snow crab, said Frank Zhou, its founder
ADF&G expecting strong 2017 pink salmon season
The southeast Alaska pink salmon harvest in 2017 is predicted to be strong, with a point estimate of 43 million fish
Alaska season so bad, no one wants defunct processor’s plants
The bankruptcy trustee selling off Alaska processor Great Pacific Seafoods' plants, which closed in May, said that a planned auction won't take place for lack of interest
Vietnam to take bigger share of China’s re-processing business
Vietnam is likely to become a global seafood processing center in the future thanks to its competitive labor cost and increasing number of processing plants, VASEP exec says
Alaska salmon harvest drops due to fewer pinks
The Prince William Sound commercial salmon harvest reached 19.13m fish this year, a significant drop from 2015 when over 100m fish were caught
Alaska’s Dear North aims at $1m in revenue from salmon jerky
Alaska Native-owned Hana Totem Corporation and Beats headphone designer Ammunition are working to put salmon jerky in 700 stores by the end of 2017
MSC study finds Australians eating more canned than fresh seafood
Australians buy a larger amount of canned seafood products annually than they do fresh fish, research data from the Marine Stewardship Council shows
Burst pipe may have provoked explosion at Alaska’s Westward Seafoods
A fishmeal dust explosion at a processing plant belonging to Westwards Seafoods in Dutch Harbor, Alaska may have been caused when a saltwater pipe burst
Unibond turnover passes £100m amid tough times for China processors
Tough times for other processors saw Unibond gain business in 2015, but UK-based sales arm for China plants states things have gone backwards in 2016