Teddy Hans is a Las Vegas, Nevada-based senior copyeditor for SeafoodSource. He attended the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism, graduating with an emphasis in magazine editing. Before joining the SeafoodSource team, where he edits feature stories, Teddy worked as a quality assurance editor in content marketing and wrote freelance content for various newspapers and magazines.
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Disruptions to global trade that have arisen since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in early 2025 have forced importers and exporters around the globe to strategize and adapt.
As a firm that both buys and sells internationally, Taiwanese seafood firm Yen and Brothers has had to deftly navigate the quickly changing economic landscape, Yen Chief Operating Officer Chihting Yen told SeafoodSource at the 2025 Seafood Expo North
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FMI – The Food Industry Association released its seventh annual Power of Seafood report on 17 March at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America.
The most recent edition of the report highlighted that seafood continues to struggle to find solid footing at U.S. retail post-Covid.
According to the report, in 2024, the category was able to maintain the loyalty of frequent seafood shoppers – or those who consume seafood at least two times per
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Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the longstanding Chevron deference – a legal precedent stemming from the 1980s that gave federal agencies wide latitude in interpreting congressional statutes.
That move, according to Robert Smith, a partner at Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based law firm K&L Gates, could turn the U.S. seafood industry into a more litigious environment in the near future.
“In the short term, you are
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Japanese food packaging and cold storage company Shingi Corporation is utilizing the power of magnets to ensure seafood products crafted by processors, and served by hotels, restaurants, and retailers around the globe, stay as fresh as possible for as long as possible.
Shingi Executive Manager Nori Tanaka told SeafoodSource at the 2025 Seafood Expo North America that the idea for the firm’s innovative proton freezers came about around 10
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Predictions about the future of artificial intelligence range from fears it will lead to human extinction, to hopes it will be a transformative technology that positively changes lives forever.
Tony Chen, the co-founder and CEO of aquaculture data analytics firm Manolin said he believes the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Chen said he isn't sure where exactly in the middle that truth lies, but he does know one thing for certain:
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The U.S. restaurant industry is coming off a year in which it struggled to keep menu prices low due to high labor and operational costs at the same time inflationary pressures led consumers to eat more food at home.
This resulted in several notable bankruptcies, including Red Lobster, TGI Fridays, Rubio’s Coastal Grill, Buca di Beppo, and more.
Some of these challenging trends are likely to continue in 2025, but National Restaurant
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Fish and shellfish were on around 75 percent and 68 percent of U.S. restaurant menus, respectively, in 2024, which were decreases of 4 percent and 3 percent over 2020 totals, according to data from Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.-based market research firm Datassential.
By species, tuna, crab, and scallop suffered the sharpest drops in menu penetration during the period, dropping by 11 percent for the former and 14 percent apiece for the latter two
… Read More“Uncertainty will be the story” – Rabobank 2025 US macroeconomic outlook calls for cautious optimism
Coming off a surprisingly strong 2024, the U.S. economy is likely to enjoy growth again in 2025 – albeit at a more modest pace – according to Rabobank Head of Cross-Asset Strategy Christian Lawrence.
However, Lawrence warned there are several factors that could stymie that predicted growth and cast uncertainty onto the U.S. economy.
Lawrence, who gave a presentation titled “2025 Macroeconomic Outlook – A return to
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