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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The New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA) has promised it will challenge NOAA in court if the administration finalizes an expansion to the Massachusetts Restricted Area (MRA) – a region of the ocean off the coast of the Northeast U.S. that prohibits lobster fishing.
NOAA is proposing modifications to the MRA that will add the temporary “wedge” closure area to the permanent closures, which last
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Credit Suisse has reportedly settled an ongoing legal dispute with shipbuilder Privinvest, closing another chapter of the decade-old Mozambique “tuna bond” scandal.
Lebanon and U.A.E.-based shipbuilder Privinvest was one of the entities involved in the massive tuna bond scandal that anti-corruption experts called “the most egregious corruption offense of the decade.” Credit Suisse was forced to pay penalties of over
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Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution confirmed with 99 percent certainty that the Gulf Stream is weakening, and with it the future of seafood species like lobster off the U.S. East Coast is uncertain.
The Gulf Stream transports warm water north from Florida along the East Coast of the U.S., influencing everything from water temperature to weather in Europe. According to a recent study, the Gulf Stream has slowed by 4
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Norway and Russia have agreed to cut fishing of Barents Sea cod by 20 percent, contributing to a predicted drop in global supplies of the species in 2024.
The Norwegian-Russian Joint Fishery Commission agreed to a 453,427 metric ton (MT) total allowable catch for cod in the Barents and Norwegian seas. That total will be split between multiple countries, with Norway receiving 212,124 MT, and Russia receiving most of the rest of the quota and
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Quickly escalating sea lice levels at Arctic Fish’s Tálknafjörður, Iceland-based salmon farm have forced the company to harvest fish at the location.
In a Facebook post, the company – which was purchased by Mowi via a share-purchase agreement in 2022 – said the rapidly worsening situation at the farm forced it to harvest fish.
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Atlantic Sapphire said it expects its Q4 2023 harvest volume to drop to its lowest level since it began operating in 2020, but it insisted it is on a path toward achieving break-even earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) by the end of H1 2024.
Atlantic Sapphire, which operates a recirculating aquaculture system farm in Miami, Florida, U.S.A., announced it expects to harvest 300 metric tons (MT) of salmon
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The International Groundfish Forum, an organization representing the global groundfish sector, is predicting the global supply of wild-caught whitefish will remain flat in 2024 as some species see gains while others see big drops.
The forum, which met in Athens, Greece in October, predicted that the total supply of wild-caught whitefish would be 7.042 million metric tons (MT), down just 1,000 MT from the 7.043 million MT available in 2023.
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The Nova Scotia Aquaculture Review Board (NSARB) has announced its decisions on who will get intervenor status at an upcoming hearing reviewing a proposal by Kelly Cove Salmon – a subsidiary of Cooke Aquaculture – to expand its Atlantic salmon aquaculture operations in Liverpool Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada.
The public hearing, scheduled to take place from 5 to 9 February 2024, will review Kelly Cove’s application for a boundary
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized a concealed shipment of totoaba swim bladders weighing a total of 109 pounds at the Nogales trade facility in the U.S. state of Arizona.
According to a release from the CBP, officers at the border crossing seized a total of 91 totoaba swim bladders, with an estimated value of between USD 910,000 and USD 1.36 million (EUR 861,000 and EUR 1.27 million). The seizure is the second of its type
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Grieg Seafood has successfully harvested the first generation of Atlantic salmon stocked in its Placentia Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada-based aquaculture operation.
The company announced it harvested its first generation of fish in late October, before packing the fish at Quinlan Brothers’ processing plant in Bay de Verde, and transporting them to the North American market. The company said fish from its Red Island farm are
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