Nathan Strout is a Portland, Maine-based editor of SeafoodSource. Previously, Nathan covered the U.S. military’s space activities and emerging technologies at C4ISRNET and Defense News, where he won awards for his reporting on the U.S. Space Force’s missile warning capabilities. Nathan got his start in journalism writing about several communities in Midcoast Maine for a local daily paper, The Times Record.
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Antarctica Advisors is a Miami, Florida, U.S.A.-based financial advisory firm focused exclusively on the seafood sector.
Managing Partner Ignacio Kleiman and Partner Birgir Brynjolfsson spoke with SeafoodSource about the state of merger and aquisition (M&A) activity in the seafood industry.
SeafoodSource: What are the unique challenges to advising businesses in the seafood sector on completing mergers and acquisitions?
BRYNJOLFSSON: One of
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A pair of judges have ordered the U.S. government to rehire thousands of laid off workers, frustrating U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to quickly and drastically shrink the federal workforce.
The Trump administration has prioritized slashing the federal workforce, first offering employees financial incentives to join a deferred resignation plan and then implementing mass layoffs of probationary employees. More than 20,000 employees
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With a government shutdown looming, U.S. lawmakers passed another short-term spending bill on 14 March to keep the government open through September 2025.
Unable to pass a regular appropriations bill through the House and Senate before the deadline, Congress passed a continuing resolution to keep the government open in September 2024. That stopgap measure avoided a government shutdown for three months, pushing back any budget decisions until
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Just weeks after the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump laid off hundreds of employees at NOAA in February, the agency is preparing for another round of layoffs and the closure of more than a dozen offices.
Trump has made shrinking the federal workforce and slashing grant funding a priority during the early days of his administration, tasking Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) with leading the cuts. The
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The Northwest Aquaculture Alliance (NWAA) has sued the U.S. state of Washington’s Department of Natural Resources over a recently finalized rule banning net pen aquaculture.
The lawsuit comes after the department approved a rule banning finfish farming in state waters, codifying a ban that had been implemented unilaterally by Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz in 2022. A court ultimately ruled that the executive order had “no
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The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a Coast Guard authorization bill that includes support for commercial fisheries.
The legislation would provide more than USD 30 billion (EUR 28 billion) for the U.S. Coast Guard for fiscal years 2025 and 2026.
“This legislation prioritizes the Coast Guard’s most important asset – the men and women of the Coast Guard, and their families,” U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Washington)
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U.S. lawmakers have reintroduced the Help Our Kelp Act, legislation that would provide financial support for America’s kelp forest ecosystems.
“Healthy kelp ecosystems are essential not only to the stability and survival of hundreds of marine species but also to protecting coastlines, generating income for coastal communities, and supporting sustainable fisheries,” U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-California) said in a
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