Chris Loew

Japan’s seafood export strategy is paying off as the world begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, with its seafood exports up 27 percent in the first half of 2021.

Japan Minister of Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Kotaro Nogami reported in an online press conference on 3 August that Japan’s exports of agriculture, forestry, and fishery products and foods increased by 31.6 percent in the first half of 2021 from

A virtual climate and fisheries workshop hosted in July by the Environmental Defense Fund had the goal of building bridges between fisheries managers in Japan and the United States.

The seminar organized by the New York City, U.S.A.-based NGO brought together scientists from the National Marine Fisheries Service and Japan’s Fisheries Research and Education Agency to discuss current and future climate-related changes in fisheries, data gaps

The North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group (NAPA) on 19 July announced its first member company from Asia: the Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union (JCCU).

NAPA was launched in 2019, in response to the loss of Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for several key pelagic stocks. The group was also established to address the trend of countries in the Northeast Atlantic region unilaterally setting quotas higher than is

Leif Anderson is the director of sales and services for Kirkland, Washington, U.S.A.-based Dynamic Systems Inc. He spoke with SeafoodSource about the company’s SIMBA traceability and barcode labeling software, its use in the seafood sector, and the trend for industry standards.

SeafoodSource: You have noted increased demand for traceability products from the seafood sector. Is that demand coming from a requirement from the government to be

As You Sow, an NGO based in Oakland, California, U.S.A., is riding a wave of success from its tactic of borrowing the shares of activist investors to submit shareholder proposals aimed at securing greater corporate transparency and commitments on ocean plastic.

As You Sow focuses on changing corporate policy on topics like climate change or ocean plastics by engaging with shareholders, who in turn seek greater environmental commitments from the

One of the biggest sushi chains in Japan is being investigated for stealing proprietary information from a rival.

Police searched the Yokohama, Japan-headquarters of Kappa Create Co., Ltd., which operates the Kappa Sushi conveyor-belt sushi chain on 28 June. On 5 July, the company issued a press release acknowledging that a complaint from a competitor, Hama-sushi Co., Ltd., had been filed against one of its officers.

Hama-sushi (pronounced