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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– Happy Ocean Foods has announced that after five years of producing fish alternative products, it will transition its business to focus on high-performance plant-based proteins.
“We’re not trying
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The Taiwanese government and representatives of the nation’s distant-water fishing sector are pushing back against a CNN report documenting abuses experienced by fishers in the sector, while labor rights groups are using the report as another call for action.
The report, published by CNN World on 12 July, was based on and included first-hand accounts from a number of fishers – including Silwanus Tangkotta and Adrian Dogdodo
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Gibran Huzaifah, the founder of Indonesian aquaculture technology startup eFishery, has been detained by Indonesian police.
He and two others are being investigated for inflating financial statements in order to dupe investors into funding the company in excess of USD 1 billion (EUR 861 million).
The Bandung, Indonesia-based startup, which began by renting automated feeders to small fish and shrimp farmers, morphed into a one-stop
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Port Lincoln, Australia-headquartered Yumbah Aquaculture’s months-long process of acquiring Eyre Peninsula, Australia-based yellowtail kingfish farmer Clean Seas Sustainable Seafood is now complete, the company announced on LinkedIn on 7 August.
In a post about the deal, reportedly worth AUD 28.1 million (USD 18.3 million, EUR 15.7 million), Yumbah said that
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A new turtle excluder device (TED) design being tested in the Gulf of Mexico, currently referred to as the Gulf of America by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, aims to save juvenile turtles from bycatch without diminishing shrimp catch.
TEDs have long been used by shrimp trawlers to reduce sea turtle bycatch. The current industry standard, while successful at reducing bycatch of adult sea turtles, often fails to exclude
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