Erin Spampinato

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U.S. container port executives and managers are asking Congress to restore funding allocation rules to the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF), which is a pool of money drawn from port taxes used for dredging and maintaining ports, among other uses.  In 2020, U.S. Congress set up rules that… Read More

Cooke Aquaculture lost nearly 60,000 fish in two mortality events at its Newfoundland, Canada salmon farming sites.  Cooke reported both mortality events to Newfoundland and Labrador’s Department of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture, which requires that aquaculture producers report… Read More

The High Court of the U.K. has rejected a final appeal from Icelandic artist ODEE to maintain a website he created to satirize Akureyri, Iceland-based Samherji’s role in the Fishrot scandal. 

First brought to public attention in 2019, the Namibian Fishrot scandal involved bribes allegedly paid by Samherji to Namibian officials to access fishing quotas below market values. 

ODEE, whose full name is Oddur Eysteinn Friðriksson,

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Experts returning from the annual meeting of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Kingston, Jamaica, warn increased efforts by The Metals Company (TMC) and the U.S. government to start seabed mining – despite a lack of  authority approval – could have wider implications for the health of global fisheries and the rule of law at sea. 

The push by TMC to start seabed minign comes as experts continue to assert the

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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]. –Doug Santschi is… Read More

Sitka, Alaska, U.S.A.-based fisher advocacy organization The Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association (ALFA) has won a USD 485,000 (EUR 422,719) National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant to support AI-driven electronic monitoring (EM) efforts for Alaska fixed gear fishers. 

The project will involve utilizing the FishVue AI tool created by British Columbia, Canada-based Archipelago Marine Research, as well as a partnership with the

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Brookings, Oregon, U.S.A.-based nonprofit Positively Groundfish has launched a new seafood accelerator dubbed Catch+Create to drive product innovation in the West Coast groundfish sector.  Positively Groundfish said the program is designed to help small businesses and entrepreneurs develop… 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]. – The Asia-Pacific Society for Cellular Agriculture (APAC-SCA)… Read More

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada-based algae biotechnology company Mara Renewables has raised USD 9.1 million (EUR 7.7 million) in funding from S2G investments – a multi-stage investment firm focused on scaling solutions across oceans, food and agriculture, and energy – to support its sustainable omega-3 platform. 

Mara derives its omega-3 DHA from algae, which it said is the first link in the ocean-wide food chain that produces

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