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Commentary: Going Dutch

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December 17, 2007 - By James Wright (Dec. 17) — The Netherlands is roughly the size of Massachusetts and Connecticut, combined. ...
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Canada red-flags U.S.-exempt Chinese supplier

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December 17, 2007 - SFB Staff — The first Chinese seafood company to be exempted from U.S. import safety inspections this fall was cited by Canada about one month later after a carcinogenic antibiotic was detected in a shipment of frozen shrimp. ...
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Thai farmers to cut shrimp production in 2008

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December 17, 2007 - SFB Staff — Thai farmers will reduce shrimp production 20 percent over the next year in an effort to curb a sharp drop in shrimp prices and strengthen the country’s export-bargaining power, the Thai Shrimp Association and other shrimp organizations announced this weekend. ...
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Colo. company to convert wastewater to fish feed

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December 17, 2007 - SFB Staff — Oberon FMR an Idaho Springs, Colo., aquafeed ingredient company, has paired with New Belgium Brewing Co. and the Colorado School of Mines to convert wastewater from the brewing operation into a sustainable ingredient in feed for farmed fish....
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Boneheads adds four LTO seafood entrées to menu

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December 17, 2007 - SFB Staff (Dec. 17) — Boneheads Grilled Fish & Piri Piri Chicken this morning introduced four limited-time-offer seafood entrées: Fire Grilled Chilean Sea Bass, Lobster Salad, Lobster Salad Sandwich and Lobster Bisque. ...
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Commentary: Highway robbery

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December 14, 2007 - By Steven Hedlund — Cargo theft is a growing, and overlooked, problem. ...
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USDA ups seafood consumption advice to WIC

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December 14, 2007 - SFB Staff — The U.S. Department of Agriculture last week increased its seafood-consumption recommendations for low-income, pregnant women in the Women, Infants and Children supplemental nutrition program....
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Restaurant sales to reach $558 billion next year

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December 14, 2007 - SFB Staff — Restaurant sales are projected to reach $558 billion in 2008, the 17th consecutive year of real-sales growth and up 4.4 percent from 2007, according to the National Restaurant Association’s 2008 Restaurant Industry Forecast, released on Wednesday. ...
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Driver heists $145,000 truckload of frozen seafood

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December 14, 2007 - SFB Staff — A truckload of frozen tuna, shrimp and snow crab valued at $145,000 was stolen last week when the truck driver never arrived at his Northeast destinations, says Duane Hilghman, president and CEO of Service Transport, the Hurlock, Md., transportation broker that hired the driver....
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Russia to crack down on crab smuggling

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December 14, 2007 - SFB Staff — Russia will crack down on illegal exports of crab and other marine resources to Pacific Rim countries beginning in 2008, the State Fisheries Committee announced yesterday....
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