Madelyn Kearns is the Portland, Maine-based editor of SeafoodSource. Before diving into seafood writing, editing, and infographic-designing, she was the associate editor for an online publication geared toward small to mid-sized practice physicians, Medical Practice Insider. Maddie is a graduate of the University of Maine, where she served as a columnist and the opinion editor for the university's paper, The Maine Campus, and won a Grady Award in Creative Writing for her poetry.
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An Iceland-based, small-scale lumpfish fishery has regained its Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification – effectively overturning its 2017 suspension during the first season of validity – according to a 2 December press release.
After an annual audit of the Icelandic Sustainable Fishery (ISF) revealed bycatch issues, the fishery withdrew its MSC bid in 2018 and set to work making the “necessary improvements in the past
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Bronx, New York, U.S.A.-based Baldor Specialty Foods announced in November its plans to expand into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a USD 40 million (EUR 33.1 million) warehouse distribution center, according to a report from the Philadelphia Business Journal.
An importer and distributor of specialty and fine foods, Baldor has a network stretching across the U.S. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Its proposed 224,000 square-foot warehouse
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Espoo, Finland-based biotech start-up eniferBio has developed a new single-cell protein derived from fungi for fish feed, the latest in a slew of alternative ingredient options sweeping aquafeed production.
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Gardabaer, Iceland-headquartered processing equipment developer Marel is donating EUR 1 million (USD 1.9 million) to the Red Cross to aid in its effort to improve food security in South Sudan.
Millions face food insecurity in South Sudan, resulting in many facing increased risk of malnutrition, including children, according to the Red Cross.
“After years of conflict, the scars left by war and violence on South Sudan’s communities are
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Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A.-based Trans-Ocean Products Inc. was recognized by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) as its 2020 US MSC Ocean Champion Award winner.
The company has demonstrated a continued dedication to seafood sustainability, “going above and beyond the MSC standard to make MSC certified products available to consumers,” the certification organization said in a press release.
Trans-Ocean Products' Crab Classic
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Lübeck, Germany-based processing equipment firm BAADER has opened a new entity, BAADER France, in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, the enterprise announced on 23 November.
BAADER France will serve both the fish and poultry markets via a joint local sales force, with support from a sales branch in Boulogne sur Mer in Hauts-de-France. The development is part of BAADER’s commitment to “the important French market,” the company said
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Huon Aquaculture reported that between 50,000 to 52,000 salmon escaped from a damaged pen in D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania, Australia, in the early hours of 23 November, after a fire broke out at the firm’s Zuidpool-leased
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New research highlights the possibilities that genetic variation in Atlantic salmon offers for advancing aquaculture production.
Spearheaded by Alicia Bertolotti, the new research involved sequencing the genomes of 492 Atlantic salmon in a project led by professor Dan Macqueen at the Roslin Institute (University of Edinburgh) in partnership with Xelect, the University of Aberdeen, and many international collaborators – including the
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Three members of the Best Aquaculture Practices market development team have received promotions, the Global Aquaculture Alliance, which operates the BAP program, announced in November.
Molly Jacques, who previously served as the BAP supply chain transparency manager, is now the BAP director of market development operations. Jacques has held multiple positions on the BAP market development team since joining GAA in 2011 as the business
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Morgan Hill, California, U.S.A.-based wholesaler and distributer Lusamerica Foods has hired former Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Outreach Manager Peter Adame as its new communications and sustainability manager.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Monterey Bay Aquarium has been closed for seven months, and was forced to cut over one-third of its staff earlier in the year, including Adame and others working for its Seafood Watch program.
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