Vietnamese seafood import/export firm Seafood Connection, which was purchased in 2013 by Japanese seafood giant Maruha Nichiro, has hired Chau Minh Dat as its new commercial director.
Dat, the former vice general director of Hoang Long Seafood, will oversee quality control, product development, sourcing, audits, design logistics and travel for Seafood Connection.
Dat was hired in order to address business opportunities arising from an increase
… Read MoreDeteriorating finances have led Seattle-based Great Pacific Seafoods to declare bankruptcy.
The company has shuttered its three seafood processing plants in Kenai, Whittier and Anchorage that processed salmon from the Copper River, Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet and cod from the Gulf of Alaska, according to the Alaska Dispatch News. It had already shut down its Arctic chum operations, based in Kotzebue, Alaska, last year, the paper
… Read MoreRuth Levy grew up the daughter of a fisherman, a fact that would have a lasting effect on her life.
As reported by SeafoodSource last week, Levy is leaving her position as
The Maine Department of Marine Resources has announced four grant awards to universities and community groups to be used for lobster research and education.
The Penobscot East Resource Center will receive USD 37,500 (EUR 33,600) to develop lobster curriculum for its Eastern Maine Skippers Program, an educational initiative for high school students planning to enter Maine’s lobster fishing industry. The Deer Isle-based nonprofit will engage
… Read MoreThe Indian Ocean Tuna Commission adopted harvest control rules for skipjack tuna on 26 May at its annual meeting in La Reunion, a decision jointly lauded by some industry groups and many environmental organizations.
The new rules include the identification of target levels of fishing to keep skipjack tuna populations from falling below dangerously low levels. They also call for a reduction of the use of fish-aggregating devices, ban the use of
… Read MoreIn a vote that divided both major U.S. political parties, the United States Senate voted Wednesday, 25 May to eliminate the requirement that all imported catfish be inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The controversial measure pitted those favoring more inspections against those wanting to decrease trade barriers and eliminate duplicative inspection systems. The 55-43 vote, which split the votes of both the Republican and
… Read MoreA new report from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) estimates that the commercial fishing and seafood industry in the United States generated USD 153 billion (EUR 137 billion) in sales in 2014, supported 1,390,000 jobs and provided USD 42 billion (EUR 37.7 billion) in income and USD 64 billion (EUR57.4 billion) in value-added impacts nationwide.
The annual report, Fisheries Economics of the United States 2014,
… Read MoreMore than 22,000 attendees from 143 countries attended the 24th edition of Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global from 26 to 28 April, 2016, in Brussels, Belgium.
Companies representing 80 countries exhibited the event, which covered 35,862 square meters of exhibit space, according to Diversified Communications, which operates the expo (Diversified Communications also owns SeafoodSource.com).
Diversified Communications Group Vice
… Read MoreStavis Seafoods’ Chief Business Officer Ruth Levy is leaving the company following a storied 27-year run at the Boston-based seafood importer and wholesaler.
A fishing boat captain out of college, Levy eventually moved on to work in management positions at several New England seafood processing companies before a stint at Sysco in Texas. She joined Stavis in 1988 as sales manager and over the next 25 years, Levy worked her way up the
… Read MorePronomar, a Dutch equipment company, has announced a new collaboration with Cold Tex that will help it optimize the design of insulating and cold-resistant workwear.
Their collaboration is focused on equipment specifically designed for working conditions in cold storage facilities. Its new offerings aid in the quicker elimination of condensation caused by temperature difference between the place where employees change into their protective
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