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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The Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries will allow farmers in sea lice “red” zones to increase their production capacity if they enclose their production units.
The Norwegian government first announced the plan, which incentivizes farmers to reduce their environmental impact through closed farming systems that keep salmon from interacting with both sea lice and wild salmon, in mid-October, with Minister of Fisheries and the
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Bergen, Norway-headquartered Mowi has received approval from the European Commission to pursue its acquisition of a controlling stake in Lovund, Norway-based Nova Sea.
The proposed acquisition was first announced in January, with Mowi saying at the time that it planned to up its stake in Nova Sea to 95 percent from its current standing of 49 percent in a NOK 7.4 billion (USD 740 million, EUR 630 million) deal with the firm's parent company
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The 2025 International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress (WCC) has adopted a resolution intended to end bottom trawling in international seamounts by the end of 2026.
The resolution, titled Motion 032, was adopted on 14 October with overwhelming support from the WCC, receiving yes votes from 95 percent of the state and government agency members, and 99 percent of the participating NGOs and organizations
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Twenty-one Norwegian salmon farmers, including Mowi, Lerøy and Austevoll, have filed a class action suit against the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Fisheries demanding an end to the “traffic light” system which Norway uses to monitor sea lice in aquaculture.
That system, which was put in place in 2017, divides Norway’s coastal waters into 13 production areas which can be classified by green,
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U.K. grocer Waitrose announced that it will adopt Seafish’s Seafood Carbon Emissions Profiling Tool (SCEPT).
The tool, which was created by the U.K. seafood sector public body, allows seafood businesses to assess carbon footprints for both wild-caught and farmed seafood products. Retailers input data about their supply chains, such as fuel use, processing, packaging, and transportation information, and SCEPT generates a carbon
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U.S. imports declined again in August and are likely, experts say, to continue to decline for the rest of the year.
The National Retail Federation (NRF), which produces the Global Port Tracker with Hackett Associates, attributed the declines, both actual and projected, to the effect of tariff pauses, which caused shippers to move merchandise for the holiday season early, producing mid-summer shipping rushes.
Now, according to
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The Chinese Ministry of Transportation announced on 10 October that the nation will begin charging American-built, -owned, and -flagged vessels port service fees in direct response to an April announcement from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) that the U.S. would charge Chinese vessels for entering U.S. ports.
The USTR's plans, which are set to take effect 14 October, will require Chinese-owned and -operated vessels to be
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