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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Silver Bay Seafoods has reached a deal to acquire OBI Seafoods, expanding its processing capacity in the U.S. state of Alaska.
Silver Bay is acquiring Icicle Seafoods’ stake in OBI and will partner with the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation (BBEDC) in a move the company said will “increase stability for Alaskan fishermen and communities reliant on seafood processing operations.”
The purchase includes OBI’s
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Miami, Florida, U.S.A.-based St. James Smokehouse debuted multiple new products at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America (SENA) – which ran from 16 to 18 March – including a cold smoked steelhead trout and a future salmon product made using trimmings from its smoked royal fillet.
The company’s new Saint Pure Steelhead Trout features new packaging and trout sourced from Mar Andino, a company that farms its fish in the South
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As it approaches a decade in force, the overall impact of Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP) on defeating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing – and how its new update to cover all species will help – remains unclear.
It has been eight years since NOAA Fisheries first created SIMP under the administration of then-U.S. President Barack Obama, and the agency has now decided it needs an update.
NOAA’s SIMP
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The geoduck fishery in British Columbia, Canada is bracing for the start of China’s 25 percent tariffs on shellfish on 20 March, which could completely upend the market.
China announced the tariffs on 8 March, hitting a range of Canadian goods, including Canadian shellfish. Geoduck is included in that higher tariff – and according to Underwater Harvesters Association Executive Director Grant Dovey, they came as a surprise
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The current trading environment in the seafood industry is incredibly complicated and unpredictable, but Nomi Prins, the keynote speaker at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America (SENA), said the long-term trends are still positive for seafood.
Prins, a macro-economist, geopolitical finance expert, and best-selling author, kicked off SENA’s conference program by highlighting the many different headwinds the seafood industry had to
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Fathom Seafood CEO Cody Mills got his start in the seafood industry trading geoduck he sourced from a friend out of the back of a Honda Element.
Now, his company is poised to begin construction on a USD 280 million (EUR 257 million), 550,000-square-foot seafood facility in Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A., that promises to be one of the most advanced of its kind in the world.
Mills told SeafoodSource that until recently, Fathom Seafood has been
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Austin, Texas, U.S.A.-based supermarket chain Whole Foods recently expanded its sustainability efforts via its new Seafood Code of Conduct, further solidifying its commitment to sustainable sourcing across all of its products.
Whole Foods Senior Vice President of Merchandising and Perishables Wesley Rose, in an interview with SeafoodSource, said the code of conduct further aligns the company on its mission of sustainably sourcing products. Rose
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Over 25 years ago, a decision to try a piece of whitefish led Michael DellaGrotta to the career he never knew he’d have.
DellaGrotta, the president of Della Mar, has imported Patagonian toothfish – known in the U.S. more commonly as Chilean sea bass – since the 1990s. Up until an encounter at Seafood Expo North America, however, he barely knew what the species was.
“I’ll never forget, they came to the seafood
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