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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The Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) has come out in opposition to U.S. President Joe Biden’s latest nomination of Halie Craig to sit on the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) because she has spoken out against President-elect Donald Trump’s trade policies in the past.
“The U.S. International Trade Commission has played a central role in the shrimp industry’s ability to combat unfair trade,” SSA Executive
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A coalition of conservation groups are trying to pressure pharmaceutical companies worldwide to stop using horseshoe crab blood for medical testing and switch to synthetic alternatives instead.
Horseshoe crabs are harvested for use in bait, but they’re also collected for their blood, which is prized in the pharmaceutical industry for its clotting properties when exposed to bacterial toxins in biomedical testing. The demand has created a
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International NGO Greenpeace claims to have linked forced labor on Taiwanese fishing vessels to Bumble Bee canned tuna that was sold in the United States.
A recently-released report from the NGO, “Netting Profits, Risking Lives: The Unresolved Human and Environmental Exploitation at Sea,” documents 10 complaints from Indonesian fishers working on Taiwanese-flagged distant water fishing vessels alleging instances of abuse and forced
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Salmon industry advocacy group SalmonState is calling on the Alaska State Board of Fisheries to limit or eliminate the Prince William Sound pollock pelagic trawl fishery – the only such fishery managed by the state.
The state board will consider four separate proposals that would either add further restrictions on the state-managed pollock fishery or eliminate it entirely at its annual meeting in Cordova, Alaska, taking place 10 to 16
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Fisheries regulators on the West Coast are further delaying the opening of their states’ respective commercial Dungeness crab seasons due to the presence of humpback whales and low meat quality, with all but a small portion of Oregon's coast unlikely to open before the end of the year.
On 6 December, the state of California announced it was delaying the start of the commercial crab season for a third time this year, citing the
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