Erin Spampinato

Bronx, New York City, USA-based Fulton Fish Market Cooperative held an emergency rally on 16 July to urge U.S. President Donald Trump to halt the Empire Wind offshore wind project that seafood industry stakeholders claim will put their livelihoods at risk. 

Seafood industry stakeholders gathered at the event – many of whom were unionized employees of the market – said the project threatens their livelihoods and those in New

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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]. – Homer, Alaska-based… Read More

New research by Panama City, Panama-based Twin Oceans Research (TOR) has documented an endangered scalloped hammerhead shark’s migration from Panama to the Galápagos Islands for the first time. The landmark finding, discovered via satellite documentation during three years of research… Read More

Puerto Montt, Chile-headquartered salmon-farming firm Multi X has acquired two new patents for the automated extraction of fish remains from sea cages, which it intends to sell to other aquaculture operations.

The new technology includes an automated mortality extraction system and a valve designed to automatically release dead fish from sea cages into a storage container where they will be broken down via anaerobic digestion.

Multi X said that

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E.U.-funded interdisciplinary research project SEAwise, which has been studying European fisheries since 2020, has released a four-part film entitled "Shifting Seas," which focuses on the organization’s work in the Western Waters Case Study region, encompassing the Bay of Biscay and the… Read More

Scheveningen, Netherlands-based North Sea Farmers has completed its first seaweed harvest, the Amazon-backed company announced on 14 July.  North Sea Farm 1, the site where the harvest took place, is the world’s first commercial seaweed farm located in a field of wind turbines, which… Read More

Though container prices between Asia and the U.S. are down slightly from the highs importers saw in May and June, continued economic uncertainty is likely to drive price increases among some seafood species, Supreme Crab CEO Troy Turkin told SeafoodSource.

“It’s a new world,” Turkin said, describing fast-moving policy evolutions he’s seeing that are affecting his business, which specializes in luxury imports like blue and

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The Science Center for Marine Fisheries (SCEMFIS), a U.S. research center, has announced nearly USD 500,000 (EUR 429,000) in funding for new finfish and shellfish research projects. 

At the organization’s annual spring meeting, SCEMFIS announced USD 218,531 (EUR 187,300) in new funding, adding to the USD 277,000 (EUR 237,400) which the organization dedicated to groundbreaking finfish and shellfish research at the beginning of the

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Deeside, Wales-headquartered grocery store chain Iceland has announced that it is eliminating eyestalk ablation from the prawn supply chain of its own-label prawn products by the end of 2027.  The firm also said it will transition to the use of electric stunning as a harvesting method for its… Read More

SeafoodSource is closely following the plant-based and cell-based seafood alternatives market by compiling a regular round-up of updates from the sector. If you have an announcement, please send it to [email protected]. – Food system and health advocacy organization ProVeg… Read More