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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Premium Brands Holdings Corporation has awarded a larger share in Clearwater Seafoods to the Mi’kmaq First Nations by restructuring CAD 100 million (USD 75 million, EUR 68 million) in debt.
Premium Brands and the Mi’kmaq First Nations announced the plan to purchase Clearwater Seafoods in November 2020 in a transaction valued at roughly CAD 1 billion (USD 754 million, EUR 685 million). The purchase also involved FNC Holdings, a legal
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Ghanaian police are reportedly investigating the death of a fishery observer after his body was discovered decapitated nearly a month after his disappearance.
Fishery observer Samuel Abayitey disappeared from the tuna fishing vessel Marine 707 in early November. The vessel, which according to MarineTraffic is flagged to Ghana, was stationed at Tema Harbor in southeastern Ghana.
Citi News reported Abayitey’s body was discovered washed
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The Covid-19 pandemic was a massively disruptive force impacting businesses across the entire seafood industry.
Stuck at home with restaurants shut down and little to do, consumers began to look for alternative recipes and ways to access seafood, fueling a direct-to-consumer seafood boom. Existing direct-to-consumer companies like Wild Alaskan Company saw massive upticks in business, while more traditional seafood companies and
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