Chris Chase

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Chris Chase is the Portland, Maine-based associate editor of SeafoodSource. Previously, he worked covering local issues at the Coastal Journal in Bath, Maine, where he won multiple awards from the Maine Press Association for his news coverage and food reviews. Chris is a graduate of the University of Maine, and got his start in writing by serving as a reporter and later the State Editor of The Maine Campus, an award-winning campus newspaper.


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Published on
January 8, 2024

Huntingdon, U.K.-based Hilton Foods reports that the company’s overall operating profit fell by 3.3 percent in FY 2022 as a result of challenges faced in the group’s seafood business. 

The company’s seafood business, which trades as Hilton Seafood UK and was formerly dubbed Seachill before Hilton purchased it in 2017, faced “challenges” in the year that dragged down several key performance indicators (KPIs) for

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January 5, 2024

Five Maine lobstermen have filed a lawsuit against the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) over recently enacted rules requiring all Maine lobstermen with federal lobster fishing permits to install 24-hour electronic tracking devices on their vessels.

The rule went into force on 15 December and stems from a higher-level decision made by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) calling for individual state departments to

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January 5, 2024

GeoSalmo has successfully completed a EUR 13.4 million (USD 14.6 million) financing round for its planned land-based salmon-farming facility in Iceland.

GeoSalmo plans to build a hybrid, flow-through salmon farm in Ölfus, near Þorlákshöfn, Iceland. When completed, the company said its facility should have the capacity to produce 24,000 metric tons (MT) of salmon annually. The project will be completed in phases, with the

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January 4, 2024

Chile’s National Fisheries and Aquaculture Service (Sernapesca) has reported a new harmful algal bloom event in the country's southern Aysén region that has already caused mortality impacting over 2,800 metric tons (MT) of salmon. 

On 2 January, Sernapesca reported an algal bloom northeast of Isla Victoria in Chile’s Aysén region. The event, the authority said, is impacting salmon farms in the ACS-22B Salmonid

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January 3, 2024

Humpty Doo Barramundi a barramundi aquaculture company based in Middle Point, Australia, along the Adelaide River in Australia's Northern Territory  is completing a trial batch of black jewfish in what it is deeming a world-first for aquaculture.

Black jewfish, also called mulloway or black spotted croaker, are a fish local to the region. According to the company, the species is a good-tasting fish that can get up to 45

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January 3, 2024

Norway-based salmon-farming company Måsøval has won a lawsuit against the Norwegian government, with the Norway Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Fisheries being ordered to pay the company NOK 12.8 million (USD 1.2 million, EUR 1.1 million) in compensation.

Måsøval announced the lawsuit on 3 May 2023, seeking compensation of NOK 29.8 million (USD 2.8 million, EUR 2.6 million) for the misdiagnosis of PD SAV3 at its

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January 3, 2024

Russia’s A pollock season in the Sea of Okhotsk officially started on 1 January 2024, kicking off 110 days of fishing that will collect more than 60 percent of the Far Eastern fishery basin’s landings for the year by volume.

The start of fishing in 2024 comes after a complicated year for Russia’s pollock industry in 2023, which saw higher export volumes and lower export values, according to Russian Pollock Catchers Association

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January 2, 2024

U.S. President Joe Biden’s recent expansion of the country’s ban on certain types of Russian-origin seafood has garnered mixed reactions, with domestic seafood producers and Alaskan politicians celebrating the move but importers claiming it will have a negative impact on the U.S. processing industry.

Biden expanded the ban of Russian seafood under U.S. Executive Order 14068 to include seafood harvested in Russian

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January 1, 2024

Authorities across Europe continued cracking down on the illegal trade of the endangered European eel in 2023, but the species is still at risk, according to Europol,  the law enforcement agency of the European Union.

Eels are a target for smugglers as their hatchling form – elvers, or “glass eels” as they are sometimes known – are extremely valuable. The tiny baby eels can be worth as much as EUR 1.00 (USD 1.10)

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December 26, 2023

The New England Fishery Management Council has approved groundfish catch limits for the 2024 fishing year in the Northeast U.S., with deep cuts made to multiple species and few increases.

The sub-annual catch limits (sub-ACLs) for multiple species of groundfish were decided through Framework Adjustment 66 to the Northeast Multispecies (Groundfish) Fishery Management Plan (NEFMC), which was implemented nearly forty years ago to reduce mortality

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