Canadian herring fishery enters MSC process
Third-party certifier Food Certification International will conduct the assessment for the Atlantic herring as the Seafood Producers Association of Nova Scotia leads the client group
Tri Marine enters MSC assessment for Solomon Islands fishery
Company expands recently announced American Samoa assessment of Western and Central Pacific skipjack and yellowfin tuna
Santa Priscila shrimp farms get ASC certification
Ecuadorian producer Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila has received Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification its shrimp farms
Frosta adds more fish products to branded range as first full year sales hit €10m
Frosta’s branded frozen fish products generated €10m in 2014, with the German processor currently adding four new products using singe-frozen Alaska pollock
Frosta taking transparency drive to new literal level with window to fish finger plant
German fish finger processor Frosta is opening up its fish finger plant to be viewed by the public from the outside, in the latest example of its emphasis on transparency
Thai Union top execs meet with gov’t on slave labor problems
Thai Union Frozen Products executives met with the country's military government over the issues of slave labor in the seafood supply chain
First oyster farm certified against ASC standard
The Jersey Oyster Company has become the first oyster farm in the world to meet the ASC standard for responsible bivalve aquaculture
Alaskan industry wants crab included in federal illegal seafood tracing list
Alaska crabbers want a new federal plan that would trace species at risk of illegal fishing to include crab among the first species it focuses on
Thai leadership warns media against reporting on human trafficking
Thailand's military junta has asked the media not to report on human trafficking without considering how the news will affect the country's seafood industry and reputation abroad
Human trafficking report won’t hurt Thai Union, Bumble Bee deal
The recent Associated Press report on labor abuses in the Thai fisheries industry is unlikely to affect its $1.5bn deal to acquire US firm, Thai Union has said