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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Tenyu Foods Co., a Taiwanese company specializing in fish cake products, is working to capitalize on the Taiwanese-style shabu and hotpot trend to further its expansion into the U.S. market.
Tenyu has been producing products for oden, hotpot, and Taiwanese-style shabu restaurants for over 30 years, and Tenyu Foods Account Manager Chi Wang told SeafoodSource the company's products have grown popular in Asia.
Wang told SeafoodSource at
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Indonesia-based e-commerce and supply chain integration platform Aruna has partnered with North Coast Seafoods to bring blue swimming crab caught within its network of fishermen to the U.S.
Aruna, a startup founded in 2016, works to create a fair trading environment for Indonesian fishermen to improve their livelihoods while simultaneously enhancing the traceability of the country's blue swimming crab fishery.
Aruna CEO and Co-Founder Farid
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The geoduck fishery in British Columbia, Canada, is potentially facing the loss of up to half of its yearly catch through proposed marine protected areas (MPA) that would close access to fishing grounds.
The MPA Network B.C. Northern Shelf Initiative Network Action Plan is proposing closures in a number of areas throughout the region, covering various areas of shoreline, kelp forest, and open ocean with different types of conservation
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The seafood industry has faced strong headwinds over the past two years, and the system of financial institutions supporting it didn’t have it any easier.
A panel of financial experts at Seafood Expo North America, which ran from 10 to 12 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., said 2022 and 2023 represented one of the toughest operating environments for lenders and financial institutions in recent memory.
“I don’t have
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Premium Brands Holdings Corporation hit record revenue and record adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) in FY2023, while its subsidiary Clearwater Seafoods endured continued struggles and higher losses.
Premium Brands, which owns a bevy of seafood producers, processors, and distributors in the U.S. and Canada, posted revenue of CAD 6.3 billion (USD 4.6 billion, EUR 4.2 million) in FY 2023, an
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The U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China has sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling on the officials' two departments to collaborate in determining whether seafood processed in China using North Korean labor is making its way into the U.S. supply chain.
The letter adds to earlier calls from the commission for federal action against
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