Erin Spampinato is the Georgetown, Maine-based price reporting specialist of SeafoodSource. Erin has held staff writer and editor positions at a number of mission-driven organizations, and her freelance journalism has appeared in various publications, including Electric Literature and The Guardian. She is also the author of numerous academic publications on the topics of gender, literature, and history. Erin holds a PhD in English Literature from the Graduate Center, CUNY, an MA from Columbia University, and a BA from Smith College.
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Tokyo, Japan-headquartered Mitsubishi Corporation has withdrawn its bid to increase its current 6.19 percent share of Bangkok, Thailand-headquartered Thai Union to 20 percent.
The THB 12.50 (USD 0.39, EUR 0.33) per share offer contained an automatic cancellation clause, which Thai Union called an “All-or-Nothing Structure” in its first announcement of the offer, stating that the offer would be withdrawn unless shareholder acceptance
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The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) said its recently released study on foreign fleets targeting squid near Argentina has reaffirmed a link between illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and human rights abuses.
The study focused on an area known as Mile 201, just outside Argentina’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) – and thus just outside regulatory oversight. As squid migrate outside of the Argentine EEZ squid
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Karnataka, India-headquartered Loopworm, a biotechnology startup working to scale insect-based alternative protein feeds for a variety of sectors, has secured approval from India’s Coastal Aquaculture Authority (CAA) to produce additives, attractants, and palatants for aquaculture nutrition and health.
Though the company has been producing insect-based proteins since 2019, this is the first time its products have been approved for direct
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Oslo, Norway-headquartered Nordic Aqua Partners announced a new funding package to finance the Atlantic salmon farm it is currently building in Ningbo, China.
The new financing, which comes from two unnamed Chinese investors, will support the Ningbo project with a RMB 300 million (USD 42.1 million, EUR 35.8 million) cash infusion in return for a 20 percent stake in the company. The company said in a 25 September release that the funding
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Experts in the shipping and logistics industry are predicting the U.S. sector will begin to feel the effects of tariffs this fall, which will likely manifest in low import cargo volumes, low traffic on routes into the U.S., and lower container prices.
John McCown, of The McCown Report – who has long been predicting a major decline in 2025 inbound cargo volume –said on 22 September he expected to see a double-digit drop in
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