Cliff White

If Donald Trump wins his bid for a second term as president of the United States, he’ll look to implement a plan that could result in the elimination of thousands of federal jobs.

Those involve career bureaucrats involved in the regulation of the seafood industry and food safety, warned Mark Blyth, a professor of international economics at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, who delivered the

Smithfield, Rhode Island, U.S.A.-based CAI Software acquired Molde, Norway-based Maritech on 28 February, creating one of the seafood industry’s leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software providers.

In a joint interview with SeafoodSource, CAI Software CEO Brian Rigney and Maritech CEO Odd Arne Kristengård discussed the acquisition and the combined entity’s future plans.

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Cranston, Rhode Island, U.S.A.-based Great Northern Products has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Great Northern specializes in purchasing, importing, distributing, and exporting primarily frozen crab, shrimp, lobster, scallops, groundfish, and salmon processed by its partner plants in Canada, the United States, and South America. It is a supplier to domestic and international wholesale distributors, restaurant groups, supermarket

On 28 February, Indian technology startup Captain Fresh moved into the U.S. market in a major way via the acquisition of CenSea, a third-generation, family-owned shrimp specialist based in the Chicagoland area of the U.S. Midwest.

In an interview with SeafoodSource, CenSea Co-President Nate Torch explained the rationale behind the move and what will come next for CenSea and Captain Fresh.

SeafoodSource: Why has CenSea been sold by the Feigon