Erin Spampinato

The owners of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.-based seafood market and eatery St. Paul Fish Company have agreed to enter a consent judgment after being sued by the federal government for illegally allowing managers to collect tips.  Under the court order, the owners are required to pay USD 56,000 (EUR 46,781) to the government, some of which will then be distributed to current and former employees to compensate for stollen tips. The U.S.… Read More

Data from October and November 2025 shows Indian shrimp exports found a way to succeed despite U.S. tariffs, according to industry blog ShrimpInsights. 

 “Growth was front-loaded and mid-year driven, but the imposition of higher U.S. tariffs in October led to a

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Prices for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) fell again in Week 4 of 2026, marking the fourth consecutive week of declines since a holiday boost saw the price of headed, gutted, fresh Atlantic salmon from Norway rising significantly in the last week of 2025.

The Sitagri Salmon Index (SISALMONI), which draws its price averages from a group of leading Norwegian salmon producers, reported that in Week 4 of 2026, the average per-kilogram price for all

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The global logistics industry’s long-awaited return to the Suez Canal may be in jeopardy, gCaptain has reported. The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) ended 2025 working hard to bring container shipping back to the Red Sea shipping route, which drives traffic through the canal. French shipping line CMA CGM was among the first to bring mega-container ships back to the Red Sea crossing in November, and at the time, SCA Chairman Ossama Rabiee emphasized… Read More

Bíldudalur, Iceland-based aquaculture firm Arnarlax has signed an agreement with aquaculture technology company Wisefish to implement the company's logisitics platform into its fish-farming operations.  The Wisefish platform is intended to unite the sales and logistics teams of an aquaculture operation, allowing team members to communicate instantly and transparently, as well as to make efficient use of automation.  The agreement was made,… Read More

The Sitagri Salmon Index (SISALMONI) has reported that prices for Norwegian farmed salmon fell again in Week 3 of 2026, to an average per kilogram price for all sized salmon of NOK 79.60 (USD 7.90, EUR 6.75), marking the third week of decline since a holiday boost saw headed, gutted, fresh Atlantic salmon rising to NOK 98.93 (USD 9.82, EUR 8.39) during the last week of 2025.

One salmon distributor working out of the Southeast United States told

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A Juneau, Alaska, man with a long history of wildlife violations has been convicted on eight charges of commercial fishing fraud. According to the Juneau Independent, Michael Patrick Duby’s record of hunting and fishing violations dates back to 2002, when he was convicted of illegally hunting birds in the U.S. state of Washington. In 2010, he was the subject of a two-year investigation by the Fish and Wildlife Service, which led to a 2012… Read More

Norwegian farmed salmon prices dropped again in Week 2 of 2026, which occurred from 5 to 11 January, according to the Sitagri Salmon Index (SISALMONI).

The average price of salmon in Week 2 was NOK 87.64 (USD 8.71, EUR 7.49), marking an 8.2 percent decline from the previous week’s rate for all sizes of

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U.S. shrimp imports declined for the third straight month in October 2025, according to ShrimpInsight’s Willem van der Pijl.

 Van der Pijl said that the continued contraction indicated that reciprocal tariffs between the U.S. and many shrimp-supplying nations had caused importers to reduce their inventories in order to manage tariff burdens, not that Americans were less interested in eating shrimp grown in other nations.

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A 5 January tractor-trailer accident in Trøndelag, Norway, left 19 tons of salmon, reportedly from Norwegian Seafood, blocking a local highway.  The news was reported by local publication Namdalsavisa, as well as ILaks and Vegvesen. Additionally, the Norwegian Public Roads Authority said on X that a truck was blocking the route between Foldereid and Kongsmoen and that approximately “19 tons of fish [were] lying in the roadway.”  An… Read More