Bhavana Scalia-Bruce is the Portland, Maine-based associate editor of SeafoodSource. She attended the University of Maine studying journalism and Spanish. Before joining the SeafoodSource team, Bhavana worked for DownEast magazine as an editorial intern, as well as a columnist and business manager for UMaine’s student award-winning newspaper, the Maine Campus.
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U.S. shrimp imports remained steady in October 2023 after experiencing a decline earlier this year.
For the month, the U.S. imported a total of 167 million pounds, or 76,187 metric tons (MT), of shrimp – up from 152.5 million pounds (69,692 MT) imported in October 2022, and up from the 155.6 million pounds (70,587 MT) in September 2023.
India, Ecuador, and Indonesia continued to rank first, and second in the volume of shrimp they shipped
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To keep up to date with the latest personnel changes across the seafood industry, SeafoodSource is compiling a regular round-up of hiring announcements and other personnel-related shifts worldwide. If you have an announcement, please send it to [email protected].
- Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, Canada-based Cooke Aquaculture has appointed Steven Hedlund (pictured) as its director of public affairs. Previously, Hedlund worked as
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SeafoodSource is closely following seaweed innovation by compiling a regular round-up of updates from the sector.
- The Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Inc (PCAFI) has requested PHP 250 million (USD 4.5 million, EUR 4.1 million) to boost the country's seaweed industry.
PCAGI President Danilo Fausto said the request for an increased budget was in line with the upcoming review of carrageenan as a viable ingredient for U.S. organic
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The Center for Aquaculture Technologies (CATC), a biotechnology company that offers services to clients looking to develop aquaculture projects, has announced a partnership with Prelude Software that will burnish its clinical research and data management offerings.
CATC is based in San Diego, California, U.S.A., with additional offices in Eastern Canada. Prelude, a life science software company, is based in Braintree, Massachusetts,
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Norway exported 22,910 metric tons (MT) of salmon in week 48 of 2023, up from 22,316 MT exported in the corresponding week of 2022, and up from the 22,141 MT exported in week 47 of 2023, the Oslo Børs Fish Pool Price Status reported.
The average price of a kilogram of Atlantic salmon farmed in Norway has increased NOK 5.18 (USD 0.47, EUR 0.44), or 6.59 percent, over the past week, according to The Nasdaq Salmon Index.
The index, which
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SeafoodSource is closely following the sustainable seafood movement by compiling a regular round-up of sector updates pertaining to sustainability initiatives.
- The International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF) has launched eDhumashi, an e-commerce platform focused on improving the lives of women in the Maldives' fishing sector. The goal of the platform is to serve as a link between buyers and sellers that minimizes both language barriers and
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SeafoodSource is closely following the plant-based and cell-based seafood alternatives market by compiling a regular round-up of updates from the sector.
-Montreal, Canada-based food and beverage manufacturing company WOOP4 announced a new product line of seafood analogs. The offerings include a smoked salmon analog, tuna, analog, tropical piranha analog, and mahi analog.
“Imagine a world where every bite is a celebration and every
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To keep up to date with the latest personnel changes across the seafood industry, SeafoodSource is compiling a regular round-up of hiring announcements and other personnel-related shifts worldwide. If you have an announcement, please send it to [email protected].
-Ísafjörður, Iceland-based Arctic Fish Holding has appointed John Gunnar Grindskar as COO, effective 1 December.
Grindskar began his aquaculture career at
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SeafoodSource is closely following the sustainable seafood movement by compiling a regular round-up of sector updates about sustainability initiatives and certifications.
-London, England-based seaweed startup Samudra Oceans has secured a GBP 150,000 (USD 190,000, EUR 174,000) investment from the British Design Fund as a part of its GBP 800,000 (USD 1 million, EUR 927,000) pre-seed funding round.
The funding will be allocated to creating
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New Jersey Fish and Wildlife, a unit of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), has reported that its clam and oyster shell recycling program has collected more than 100 metric tons of discarded oysters in the U.S. state this year.
“Shell recycling is a practice where restaurants save discarded shells from their seafood dishes,” NJDEP Fish and Wildlife Senior Fisheries Biologist Scott Stueber said in a video
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