Cliff White is the executive editor of SeafoodSource. He has 15 years of experience as a professional journalist, including serving 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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More areas of California and Oregon will begin their Dungeness crab seasons on 5 January, but some fishermen along the U.S. West Coast will be waiting for at least another few weeks before they can begin crabbing.
Oregon’s commercial Dungeness season will open from Cape Foulweather to Cape Falcon on 31 December after testing showed improved meat yields in the area. Fishermen from Oregon’s border with California to Cape Foulweather
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Croix, France-based retailer Auchan has launched a shrimp product that it markets as having a lower environmental impact at its hypermarkets in France.
The “Le Poissonnier” shrimp tails are Mr. Goodfish-certified and endorsed by the Earthworm Foundation, an international NGO pushing to reduce the environmental impact of raw materials used in numerous industries, including seafood.
“We believe the project is raising the bar for
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The 2023 Seafood Expo North America, which took place 12 to 14 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., and the 2023 Seafood Expo Global, from 25 to 27 April, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain, featured a comprehensive conference program of live panel events focusing on topics chosen to be of vital interest to the seafood industry.
The 28 individual presentations from SENA and the 21 sessions from SEG featured exclusive information and insight from
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The 2023 Seafood Expo North America, which took place 12 to 14 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., and the 2023 Seafood Expo Global, from 25 to 27 April, 2023, in Barcelona, Spain, featured a comprehensive conference program of live panel events focusing on topics chosen to be of vital interest to the seafood industry.
The 28 individual presentations from SENA and the 21 sessions from SEG featured exclusive information and insight from
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China’s government is cracking down on its domestic fleet fishing in North Korean waters illegally, and working to prevent sales of North Korean seafood in China.
All Chinese fishing vessels approaching North Korean waters are now required to carry automatic identification systems, and Chinese authorities have stepped up inspections in order to ensure adherence to the rule, according to Daily NK, citing an anonymous source.
Chinese
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Angola has reduced the annual closure of its horse mackerel fishery from three months to two in 2024, according to the country’s national fisheries director, Victor Chilamba.
The ban will be reduced to encompass just the months of June and July, when the species enters its breeding season, Chilamba announced 12 December, according to the Angola Press Agency.
Chilamba said the country’s horse mackerel stock has grown in recent years,
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A U.S. House committee focused on US-China trade competition has issued a report calling for a crackdown on imports of seafood from China potentially processed using forced labor.
The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party issued a bipartisan report on Tuesday, 12 December with 150 policy recommendations designed to reset U.S. economic relations with China.
The report,
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U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-California) has called out Sysco for its ties to Chinese processors that allegedly employed Uyghur labor.
In a 14 December letter to Sysco Corporation President and CEO Kevin Hourican, Huffman linked Sysco’s supply chain to Shandong Haidu and Rongcheng Haibo, subsidiaries of the Chishan Group – a major Chinese seafood firm responsible for producing as much as 17 percent of processed squid imported
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The Spanish government has sanctioned 25 Spanish-flagged vessels for turning off their automatic identification systems (AIS).
The vessels were fined up to EUR 60,000 (USD 65,000) each. The fines were meted out after the non-governmental organization Oceana presented a report referencing Global Fishing Watch data showing the sanctioned vessels fishing near Argentina’s exclusive economic zone between 2018 and 2021, and repeatedly turning
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