Haley Jones

Juneau, Alaska, U.S.A.-based Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) recently secured USD 10.7 million (EUR 9.2 million) in federal grants to increase the international marketing of Alaskan seafood. In a release, ASMI confirmed USD 4.7 million (EUR 4 million) is coming from the federal Market Access Program, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a way to share the cost burden on U.S. organizations looking to advertise… Read More

The Metlakatla Indian Community (MIC), located on the Annette Islands 20 miles south of Ketchikan, Alaska U.S.A., is the only Native American reserve in the state, and tribal members have the exclusive right to fish in a 3,000 feet zone around the island.   Now, tribal members are fighting in court to expand that zone, as reported by Alaska Public Media. While several other Alaskan tribes forfeited areas of traditional land for money and… 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]. – Jyväskylä, Finland-based aquaculture technology developer and equipment supplier Paras Aqua Oy has named Sondre Høidalen as its incoming CEO.   The company said in a… Read More

In 2008, Raimon Moreu Soler traveled from his home in Catalonia, Spain to San Francisco, California, U.S.A. to see the world, and unknowingly, try wild Alaskan salmon for the first time. That chance encounter would lead him on a 16-year career path as an entrepreneur of Barcelona, Spain-based salmon importing company Wild Alaskan Salmon. Soler said his biggest concentration of clients are in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Austria, and… Read More

Correction: This article has been edited to correct the four genetically distinct groups identified in the study, and remove the claim that research addresses overfishing threats to Pacific cod.  A team of NOAA researchers from NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Alaska BioMap have been working on identifying genetic stocks of Pacific cod in Alaska to build a cost-effective genetic database full of… Read More

The U.S. state of Alaska has secured more than USD 115.4 million (EUR 98.4 million) in federal grants to improve its ports through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP). The money granted will fund seven projects statewide in Alaska, with a release from the office of Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy noting the projects span Alaskan coastal communities from the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta to Southeast… Read More

Alex Farthing co-founded Delos, a Jakarta, Indonesia-based software technology company that aids farmers in the digitization and automation of farming practices, in 2021. After five years running that venture, he had a desire to customize a product from farm to table, leading to the the creation of Naughty Prawn, which exhibited at the 2026 Seafood Expo Global (SEG) just a week after launching. “We launched this week. I think the reason… Read More

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has projected a decreased commercial salmon harvest in 2026 after an above-average harvest in 2025.  A draft of the report was published earlier in April, but the final draft was published 21 April. ADF&G forecasts for the 2026 commercial salmon harvest season include 56 million pink salmon, 49.7 million sockeye, 17.2 million chum, and 2.4 million coho, which would total 125.5 million fish for the… Read More

Officials in the U.S. state of Alaska are again asking for better protections for salmon in the state’s transboundary rivers. Data compiled by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) shows that salmon traveling from Canada into Southeast Alaska yield harvests of millions of salmon, valued at over USD 225 million (EUR 192.6 million) and making up roughly one-third of all North Pacific salmon runs. Though officials in both Alaska and… Read More

Denmark-based aquaculture feed producer BioMar announced plans to expand the company’s research and development (R&D) efforts to include a new species in the company’s global portfolio while at the Aquaculture Technology Centre (ATC) in Hirtshals, Denmark, 28 April 2026. ATC is the largest research facility within BioMar, the company said in a release and remains one of the most advanced centers for aquaculture research in Europe. The center… Read More