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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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick vowed to protect and support Maine lobster during a hearing on his department’s budget plans, while suggesting that Maine lobster processed in Canada would likely be unaffected by new tariffs.
“This administration views the Maine lobster industry as an American treasure, and we need to protect it,” Lutnick told lawmakers during a 4 June budget hearing before the Senate Appropriations
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During a Republican-led hearing touting U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on restoring American seafood competitiveness, Democrats and assembled witnesses questioned whether the administration’s actions align with its stated purpose.
“I hope to work with the administration and my colleagues and the majority to achieve that goal, but I don't see how the administration is going to succeed when it spent the last four
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Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have once again introduced legislation to reauthorize and update the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA), the primary legislation governing U.S. fisheries.
Legislators say updating the MSA – which was last revised in 2006 – is critical to ensuring federal law reflects the challenges facing fisheries today.
“The ocean is the beating heart of our planet: it feeds us, regulates our climate,
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U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating funding for the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund – a program that directs tens of millions of dollars annually toward supporting salmon populations along the West Coast.
The cut is part of the Trump administration’s planned cuts to NOAA; preliminary fiscal year 2026 budget documents outlined a USD 1.3 billion (EUR 1.1 billion) reduction to NOAA’s overall budget. Now,
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The Chinese government has agreed on the technical requirements for resuming seafood imports from Japan, according to the Japanese government.
”Seafood is an important export item for Japan and a resumption of its export to China is a major milestone," Japan Fisheries Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said, according to the Associated Press.
China’s ban was implemented in August 2023 after Japanese authorities approved the release of treated
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has rejected the New England Fishery Management Council’s (NEFMC) plan to split the region’s cod population into four separate stocks, claiming it doesn’t ally with federal regulations.
NEFMC voted in December 2024 to pass Amendment 25, which would divide New England’s cod population into four distinct stocks: Eastern Gulf of Maine, Western Gulf of Maine, Southern New England, and
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