Pending quota lawsuit overshadows strong US grouper season
'Things are better than they were last year but they're certainly not great and the recreational fishing industry has really put a hurt on the red grouper population in the Gulf of Mexico' -- Eric Brazer, Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders' Alliance
Louisiana intervenes in grouper allocation lawsuit to support recreational harvesters
Commercial harvesters in the US state of Louisiana are fighting in court what would be a dramatic cut in their allocation of grouper in federal waters
NOAA Fisheries quadruples snapper-grouper vessels to be assigned observers
About 400 vessels a year -- up from 92 -- will be randomly selected and notified in advance that they will be observed
Japan to help purchase Taiwanese grouper after China’s import ban
Japanese aquaculture operators have shown their willingness to support Taiwan by purchasing grouper raised in the country after China announced a ban starting June 13
Acquisitive Costa Rican firm aspires to be the ‘Cooke’ of tropical fish
Industrias Martec wants to position itself as a player in the supply of tropical warmwater finfish by further expanding its assets in fisheries as well as aquaculture
Trident Seafoods to fight Democrats’ proposed MSA changes in Congress
'Rather than empower the councils, [HR 4690] contains prescriptive mandates that will consume council time, divert resources...'-- Shannon Carroll, Trident Seafoods
NOAA’s IUU, bycatch report scolds 31 countries, threatens US imports from Mexico
'This has been a longstanding and somewhat intractable problem' -- NOAA's Alexa Cole on Mexico's struggle to stop IUU fishing
Indonesian processing ops not part of Slade Gorton’s North Atlantic deal
Slade Gorton confirmed in an email that the deal for Portland, Maine-headquartered NAI will not include the processing operations on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa
Slade Gorton buys Indonesian seafood supplier North Atlantic
Boston-based Slade Gorton, one of the largest importers on the US East Coast, announced the deal for NAI, headquartered in Portland, Maine, on Tuesday
Ecuador, India, Indonesia seafood firms face China’s COVID-related import suspension
Seafood exporters from Ecuador, India, Indonesia and Mauritania are the latest countries to have their imports to China suspended after traces of coronavirus were detected on products