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 Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs have rejected its portion of a CAD 259 million (USD 180 million, EUR 172 million) offer from the Canadian government to support commercial fisheries access, claiming the funding undermines their treaty rights
“This proposal raises serious alarms,” Chief Wilbert Marshall, co-lead of the assembly’s fisheries portfolio, said in a statement. “[The Department of Fisheries and
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Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have passed a bill directing NOAA Fisheries to establish a task force to tackle shark depredation – the partial or complete removal of a hooked fish from an angler’s line by a shark.
The Supporting the Health of Aquatic systems through Research, Knowledge, and Enhanced Dialogue (SHARKED) Act was first introduced in 2023 and initially passed the House in February 2024. However, the
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A U.S. district court has issued summary judgment against a lawsuit filed by conservationists attempting to stop the opening of leatherback sea turtle habitat to commercial sablefish harvesting, allowing NOAA Fisheries’ plans to move forward.
NOAA Fisheries announced in December 2023 that it would open 407 square miles of the leatherback’s principal feeding area for sablefish harvesting, despite the fact that the vertical lines used
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U.S. consumers have plenty of money to spend on seafood, despite anecdotal concerns over inflation and higher grocery bills, according to Wells Fargo agricultural economist Michael Swanson.
“People are spending USD 500 billion [EUR 480 billion] on [beef, pork, and chicken]. You don’t think they have another couple hundred billion dollars to spend on seafood if they want to? They absolutely do,” Swanson said at the 2025 Global
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Instead of solely relying on their primary grocery store, U.S. consumers are shopping around for their seafood, according to FMI – The Food Industry Association.
That’s a major change from 2018, when FMI research showed that 60 percent of consumers said their traditional grocery store was their primary seafood store. That number dropped drastically following the Covid-19 pandemic, with just 42 percent of respondents still using their
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After a difficult period of low prices shocked the global shrimp-farming industry in 2024, Ecuadorian shrimp farmers have adjusted, and the sector has stabilized, according to Glunashrimp Founder Gabriel Luna.
“Ecuadorian shrimp farmers – as have the other farmers around the world – have had to adjust to be able to produce with those low prices. [2024 was] a very troublesome year for the farmers because they were trying to
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