New England Seafood restructures for ‘next stage of growth’
Recent sushi JV key to growth plans at home and overseas, as sales director takes UK managing director role, with former MD Dan Aherne now group CEO
Canadian brewery offers grant for wild salmon projects
Pacific Western Brewing foundation establishes a $20,000 fund to support grassroots salmon enhancement initiatives in British Columbia
Revolt against the gatekeeper: Copper River’s public withdrawal from MSC
Copper River Seafoods abandoning the MSC is another major development in the ongoing evolution of sustainability certifications, says John Sackton, publisher of Seafood News
Copper River Seafoods pulls support for Alaska salmon MSC process
Silver Bay Seafoods is left as only large supplier still in support of MSC certification of Alaska salmon fishery, as Copper River Seafoods plans to withdraw support
Alaska seafood: $15.7bn total economic output
McDowell Group report shows Alaska seafood's impact on the US economy is big despite its focus on international markets, with pollock, cod and other groundfish bringing in the largest bundle of cash in terms of direct and indirect economic impacts
Statewide Alaska salmon harvest breaks all-time record
2013 is ‘most certainly’ an unusual year, according to Alaska Department of Fish and Game management coordinator
Maruha Nichiro bearish on US, Thailand on pollock markets, shrimp disease
Low prices in pollock and EMS in shrimp mean Japanese conglomerate ‘not optimistic’ on hitting annual earnings targets for US, Thai divisions
Low salmon numbers hit Canada’s Fraser River
Fisheries and Oceans Canada is telling commercial and sport fishermen of the volatile sockeye runs in the British Columbian Fraser River to keep their hands off the fish