Haley Jones

Halifax, Nova Scotia-based engineering, architecture, and construction services company GHD (Gutteridge Haskins and Davey) is working on a solution to the annual 25 million fishing pots and traps lost around the world, known as "ghost gear."  When fishing gear – nets, traps, fishing lines, etc. –  are lost or discarded in the ocean, the waste remains a polluter and risks the lives of marine life until removed. GHD said in a release… Read More

Research led by NOAA Fisheries found that red king crab migrations off the coast of Alaska are impacted by environmental factors, implying that regulators need more flexible tools to effectively manage the species. In order to research why red king crab populations in Bristol Bay, Alaska, U.S.A. were migrating at certain times of year, researchers conducted satellite tagging research from the late spring of 2021 to the fall of 2024. NOAA… Read More

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].  – The CEO of Miami, Florida, U.S.A.-based salmon firm BluGlacier, Sebastian Goycoolea, is stepping down after almost 12 years.   Goycoolea announced his departure via… Read More

Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based nonprofit conservation organization Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC) has announced its intent to sue NOAA and Alaska state officials over commercial and sport salmon fisheries along the Alaskan Peninsula over regulation concerns.   “These are interception fisheries harvesting migrating salmon on their way home to rivers that in some cases are hundreds or thousands of miles away,” WFC Executive Director Emma… Read More

Bergen, Norway-based aquaculture genetics solutions firm Benchmark Genetics announced the release of a new DNA parentage test for shrimp-breeding programs called BenchTrace. The new program will help shrimp-breeding operations identify various factors such as family relationships, pedigrees, and other valuable genetic data ahead of breeding shrimp populations commercially. “BenchTrace delivers fast, reliable parentage information to support… Read More

Scientists at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center's Kodiak Laboratory recently completed research on how certain hybrid crab populations have increased in Alaska's Bering Sea following a marine heatwave and subsequent mass die-off events from 2018 to 2019.   “These results are unprecedented,” study lead Erin Fedewa said in a NOAA release. “We were shocked by the magnitude of the hybrid surge while analyzing data from the 2025 Eastern… Read More

NOAA Fisheries and NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science recently released a new report with stakeholder input that was gathered across multiple workshops during the spring of 2026 in Anchorage, Juneau, and Kodiak, Alaska, U.S.A. The report, titled the "Gulf of Alaska Aquaculture Atlas Rollout and Webtool Planning Workshop Series," asked industry professionals, including growers, Tribal representatives, researchers, state and… Read More

Washington D.C., U.S.A.-based nonprofit Global Fishing Watch and Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based nonprofit lab for artificial intelligence (AI) Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently announced a partnership to bring technology and AI agents for ocean monitoring and enforcement efforts.   The two announced the new partnership in New York City, New York, U.S.A. at the Climate Week NYC 2026 conference, merging Global Fishing Watch's vessel… Read More

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].   – Paisley, Scotland-based biotechnology research company WellFish Tech recently appointed Stein Johannessen as the company's technical lead for Norway, helping the company… Read More

Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.-based independent, nonprofit R&D institute SRI International received a USD 4.2 million (EUR 3.7 million) U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) award to develop an underwater kite that generates electricity through the ocean's tides and river currents.   SRI has worked in collaboration with the Berkeley, California, U.S.A.-based University of California Berkeley to create the… Read More