Haley Jones

Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based Alaska Airlines announced it entered into long-term lease agreements to add four additional 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter aircraft to its existing cargo fleet of five, increasing its fleet to nine total.   "Alaska Air Cargo has two very important goals: supporting our communities and customers and connecting them to the world," Alaska Airlines Vice President of Cargo Ian Morgan said in a company release.… Read More

Vienna, Austria-based catering company DO & CO Aktiengesellschaft has announced the launch of a comprehensive animal welfare policy developed in collaboration with Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.-based nonprofit Lever Foundation. DO & CO serves over 180 million meals annually across several airlines, including British Airways, Delta, KLM, and Etihad.  In the newly adopted policy, the catering company committed "to the welfare of chickens, pigs,… Read More

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) recently caught a fisher for attempting to smuggle 65 Dungeness crabs out of the Westport Marina.   According to a Facebook post by ODFW, an officer was overseeing commercial and recreational crab fishing in the marina when he received a report of a "suspicious looking recreational crab fisher" who was seen making multiple trips from Float 20 to a vehicle in the parking lot with a… Read More

On 17 July, Argentina enacted legislation to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing by officially signing onto the United Nations-backed Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA). The PSMA is an agreement administered through the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization that was developed 10 years ago. According to a release by the Pew Charitable Trusts, it's the only legally binding international treaty designed to… 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].  – After just over 12 and a half years, Stephanie Rakels announced she is leaving her position as chief development officer of Utrecht, Netherlands-based sustainable… Read More

Paisley, Scotland-based biotechnology firm WellFish Tech announced a new commercial partnership with Bergen, Norway-based Salmon Group. According to a release from WellFish Tech, the two companies will work together to "provide systematic blood biomarker analysis based on blood biochemistry across sites and companies within the network." Salmon Group represents 40 owner companies and 62 food-producing companies along the Norwegian coast,… Read More

A new study published by NOAA’s Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center found that population numbers of gray whales along the U.S. West Coast have increased since 2025.  How and why populations of Eastern North Pacific gray whales are seeing an uptick is still under research, but in a release, NOAA confirmed that the increase "likely exceeds the reproductive capacity of the population.” Last year, the most recent estimate for gray… Read More

Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.-based seafood wholesaler Seafood Supply Company was ordered by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on 17 July to pay a USD 250,000 (EUR 218,995) fine, undergo a three-year probation period, and implement an environmental compliance plan for two violations of the Lacey Act. The Lacey Act is a U.S. wildlife protection law that bans the trafficking of illegally harvested, processed, or transported fish, wildlife, and plants.… Read More

Counting salmon in Alaska has been done the same way since the 1950s.   A field biologist climbs a tower, counts the number of fish swimming through the area every 10 minutes on the hour, hops down and into a skiff, moves to the opposite bank, and counts for another 10 minutes. They then spend 40 minutes reporting that data – just to do it all again the next hour.  Norman Van Vactor, a Dillingham, Alaska, U.S.A.-based marine scientist, knew… Read More

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has opted to go against some top nominations for U.S. fishery management councils. In a 26 June announcement Lutnick announced he selected Forrest Bowers, the second choice for the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, instead the Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy's top choice and current Alaska Department of Fish & Game Board Chair Märit Carlson-Van Dort. For the Pacific Fishery Management Council,… Read More