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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To keep up to date with the latest personnel changes across the seafood industry, SeafoodSource is compiling a regular round-up of hiring announcements and other personnel-related shifts worldwide. If you have an announcement, please send it to [email protected].
– High Liner Foods has announced that Kimberly Stephens is its new chief financial officer, taking the place of Darryl Bergman, who will continue to advise the company
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Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has reaffirmed its commitment to working with Newfoundland and Labrador aquaculture companies after a local salmon conservation group accused several of the province's firms of committing environmental violations.
In early July, the Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) released evidence of what it said was illegal dumping at salmon farms off the south coast of Newfoundland and demanded that the DFO place a
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BioMar, Innovafeed, and Auchan have announced a partnership that intends to commercialize the use of insects– particularly black soldier fly meal produced by Innovafeed – into feed for the Ecuadorian shrimp sector.
The partnership, which was announced at the Global Shrimp Forum in Utrecht, Netherlands, aims to leverage the strengths of each company and, if successful, could mark a significant step in the acceptance of insect
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Transpacific shipping rates have continued to decline in recent weeks, bearing out the predictions of shipping analysts who said that Asian shippers would stop rushing goods into the U.S. now that the country's tariff pause with China has been extended past its initial three months.
The first tariff pause jointly announced by the U.S. and China, which suspended the highest tariffs proposed in the countries’ trade war, caused a
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Indian media outlets are reporting that Karnataka, India-based digital seafood marketplace Captain Fresh has filed confidential regulatory documents with the Securities and Exchange Board of India, indicating that it is preparing a fresh share issuance worth between USD 200 million (EUR 172 million) and USD 300 million (EUR 257 million).
The company, which recently reclassified as a public limited company under the brand Infifresh Foods Limited,
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