Cliff White has been the executive editor of SeafoodSource since 2016. Previously, he worked as the senior business reporter for the McClatchy-owned Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit and the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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Trident Seafoods is selling its seafood-processing plant in Kodiak, Alaska, U.S.A. to Pacific Seafoods.
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based Trident has been seeking a buyer for its Kodiak plant since December 2023, when it announced a broader pullback from operating in Alaska. It subsequently sold off its processing facilities in Petersburg, Ketchikan, and False Pass, and in May 2024, it said it had advanced negotiations on the sale of
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The government of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is working to overhaul the country’s fisheries sector as part of a series of reforms designed to achieve national status as a high-income, manufacturing economy by 2045.
PNG Prime Minister James Marape is pushing to “ensure the region and other Pacific island countries gain maximum benefit from their resources” through a transformation from being an exporter of raw resources into a
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Vietnam’s seafood exports have grown in value and volume over the course of 2024, indicating a broad recovery is underway after a difficult two-year period.
The value of Vietnam’s seafood exports reached USD 6.3 billion (EUR 5.8 billion) between January and August 2024, up nearly 9 percent year over year, and hit USD 7.2 billion (EUR 6.6 billion) for the first nine months of this year, up 8.5 percent, according to the Vietnam
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has released its total allowable catch (TAC) figures for the state’s fall and winter crab fisheries, with higher levels set for several key commercial species.
The Bering Sea red king crab TAC was set at 1,048 metric tons (MT), or 2.3 million pounds, up from the 2023 TAC of 975 MT (2.2 million pounds), with the season set to open 15 October. The TAC closely followed the recommendations of
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