Chris Chase is the Portland, Maine-based executive 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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Atlantic Sustainable Catch – which is composed of Northern Wind, Suncoast Seafood, and Raymond O’Neill & Son Fisheries – has acquired Atlantic Capes Fisheries.
In a press release, Northern Wind announced it will take over the processing and sales divisions of the company. Atlantic Capes is a fully integrated seafood company with harvesting vessels and processing plants, specializing in a number of different shellfish
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Environmental NGO Oceana, represented by nonprofit Earthjustice, has filed multiple lawsuits against the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) – also known as NOAA Fisheries – for allegedly withholding information about trawl fisheries in the U.S. states of California and Alaska.
Oceana said it made four separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for information, such as records, photographs, and videos related to
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Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries has released the results of a consultation on the potential impacts of offshore aquaculture in multiple regions off the Norwegian coast and proposed regulations which could clear the way for further development of the industry.
According to a release from the Directorate of Fisheries, the study covered offshore aquaculture in three areas: Norskerenna south, the northern part of Frøya Bank, and
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California, U.S.A.-based Tsar Nicoulai Caviar has purchased beleaguered caviar producer and sturgeon farmer Sterling Caviar, creating the largest caviar-producing company in the U.S.
Sterling Caviar entered receivership in April 2024, with creditors claiming the company owed them more than USD 23 million (EUR 22.2 million). The company was originally founded by Stolt-Nielsen in 1988 to raise white sturgeon at a farm in Elverta, California,
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The Fish, Food, and Allied Workers Union (FFAW), which represents fishermen in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, is pushing for Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to avoid further cuts to what it calls a “miniscule” total allowable catch for gulf shrimp.
According to the FFAW, a recent meeting of the Gulf of St. Lawrence Shrimp Advisory Committee suggested there is bad news on the way for
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The Alaska Pollock Fishery Alliance (APFA) is celebrating the defeat of a trawling ban in Prince William Sound (PWS) after Alaska’s Board of Fisheries shot down the proposal.
The PWS pollock trawl fishery is the only state-managed pollock trawl fishery in the U.S. state of Alaska, as the other pollock trawl fisheries are managed federally. At a recent board meeting, the state’s Board of Fisheries rejected proposals to close the PWS
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Indonesia-based aquaculture tech firm eFishery has suspended both its co-founders amid an investigation into alleged financial irregularities.
Company Co-Founder and CEO Gibran Huzaifah and Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer Christna Aditya were both suspended, Deal Street Asia reported. Since their suspensions, the company has appointed Adhy Wibisono as interim CEO and Albertus Sasmitra as interim CFO.
“This decision, reached in unison
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The Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association (NAIA) and Cooke Inc. CEO Glenn Cooke are pushing back against a proposal for a new marine protected area (MPA) they both say will negatively impact the aquaculture and fisheries industries in the Canadian province.
Canada’s federal government has proposed a new National Marine Conservation Area (NMCA) for the South Coast Fjords area, located on the southwest coast of the island of
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