AquaBounty equipment sitting on the Pioneer, Ohio, site where its Atlantic salmon recirculating aquaculture system facility was supposed to be built — AquaBounty equipment sitting on the Pioneer, Ohio, site where its Atlantic salmon recirculating aquaculture system facility was supposed to be built | Photo courtesy of Gordon Brothers/New Mill Capital

January 13, 2025

Equipment for AquaBounty’s Ohio facility headed for auction after company ceases salmon farming

The FDA's draft guidance for alternative-protein labeling offered this image of a correctly labeled alt-seafood product, which clearly identifies the ingredients in the product and the traditional animal-derived food to which it offers an alternative — An FDA-approved alt-seafood product, which clearly identifies the ingredients in the product and the traditional animal-derived food to which it offers an alternative | Photo courtesy of the U.S. FDA

January 13, 2025

US FDA responds to the growth of alt-protein with new labeling guidelines

The coastline of Malibu, California, U.S.A., with the Palisades fire raging in the distance — The seafood industry is working to distribute aid to victims of a series of devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. area | Photo courtesy of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

January 13, 2025

Los Angeles seafood industry takes hit after California fires destroy homes and businesses

A lobsterman measuring a recently caught lobster with a size gauge — Maine lobstermen are celebrating the withdrawal of a proposed size limit change that would have increased the minimum legal size of lobsters | Photo courtesy of Breck P. Kent/Shutterstock

January 13, 2025

Maine lobstermen celebrate withdrawal of gauge size increase

A squid-fishing vessel of Zhoushan origin — A squid-fishing vessel of Zhoushan origin | Photo courtesy of North Pacific Fisheries Commission

January 13, 2025

Chinese squid-fishing companies pushing for greater share of EU market

Food Safety & Health

The U.K. Health Services Agency, Food Standards Agency, and Food Standards Scotland are investigating an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes linked to the consumption of smoked fish

UK, Scotland listeria outbreak linked to smoked fish

April 11, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning about raw oysters from Canada involved in a norovirus outbreak.

FDA warns about norovirus-contaminated Canadian oysters in the US

April 5, 2022

A recall of Canadian oysters due to a norovirus outbreak widened on 31 March, 2022.

More oysters recalled in Canada due to norovirus

April 4, 2022

A fisherman holds a large salmon.

Transparent Path launches seafood supply chain audit service

March 29, 2022

An outbreak of norovirus has led to the recall of additional oysters nationwide in Canada, including some lots from Taylor Shellfish Canada.

Norovirus outbreak in Canada prompts nationwide oyster recall

March 28, 2022

Customs authorities have increased penalties for seafood exporters whose packaging tests positive for traces of COVID-19 upon arrival in Chinese ports.

China imposes 20-week import ban on two Ecuadorian shrimp firms as it stiffens COVID-19 import penalties

March 22, 2022

A foodborne illness outbreak linked to norovirus has forced Bowser, British Columbia, Canada-based Stellar Bay Shellfish to recall some of its oysters.

Stellar Bay Shellfish recalling oysters due to norovirus outbreak

March 21, 2022

The U.S. government filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, 9 March, against a Washington state seafood processor that it wants to shut down for safety reasons.

FDA takes action against Washington fish-smoker, alleging filthy conditions

March 11, 2022

Authorities in Shandong, a key seafood production and processing region, have named and shamed 14 enterprises for not following rules on cold-chain management of imported seafood.

Shandong sanctions 14 firms for seafood cold-chain COVID-19 transgressions

March 8, 2022

Josh Donlan, founder of Advanced Conservation Strategies and a research fellow at Cornell University Lab of Ornithology.

Josh Donlan: Mislabeling more complex than believed, needs targeted solutions

March 4, 2022

Bensenville, Illinois, U.S.A.-based importer Corfu Foods is recalling around 6,570 pounds of swai products imported from Vietnam.

Corfu Foods recalls swai imported from Vietnam

February 22, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has resumed surveillance inspections across the country as the number of COVID-19 cases have declined nationwide.

FDA resumes domestic inspections as omicron subsides

February 10, 2022

Dalian plants require audit to reopen

February 10, 2022

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officers raided B&J Seafood Market in New Bern, North Carolina, U.S.A. on

NOAA raids North Carolina seafood market

January 31, 2022

Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will remove quarantine regulations for frozen processed seafood products imported for domestic processing for export purposes.

Vietnam to remove quarantine regulations for imported processed seafood

January 25, 2022

FDA refuses double the number of shrimp imports for antibiotic contamination in 2021

January 6, 2022

Haifa Smoked Fish is expanding its recall of Turbot Cold Smoked packages.

Haifa Smoked Fish expands recall of Turbot Cold Smoked packages

January 5, 2022

The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers has sent a petition to the country’s central government asking for changes in national seafood import quarantine regulations.

VASEP requests loosening of quarantine regulations

December 23, 2021