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. Representative Jared Huffman (D-California) said that NOAA Fisheries will finally release financial relief for the 2023 closure of the California’s salmon fishery, but it could still be a while before fishers receive that relief.
California’s fishing community has been devastated by back-to-back closures of the state’s Chinook salmon fisheries. California lawmakers urged the federal government to approve financial relief
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Conservation groups are suing the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware over the taking of endangered Atlantic sturgeon as bycatch in state-run fisheries.
“The Atlantic sturgeon of the Delaware and Hudson rivers are at imminent risk of extinction – killed by dredging, deepening, vessel strikes, habitat loss, pollution, and bycatch due to multiple commercial fisheries,” Delaware Riverkeeper Maya van Rossum said in a
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US bill would grant seafood companies access to larger seasonal worker pool through H-2A visa system
Legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) would allow seafood companies to hire workers through the uncapped H-2A visa program, greatly increasing the number of seasonal workers they could hire from other countries.
Many seafood processors rely on temporary foreign workers to fill seasonal positions, but by law, they can only apply for workers under the capped H-2B visa program, where they must compete in a lottery system
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