Christine Blank, a veteran freelance writer and editor, covers all aspects of the seafood industry, from fishing to processing to selling and serving the final product. When she is not writing for SeafoodSource, Christine gets to taste scrumptious seafood dishes at U.S. restaurants for her food and travel blog, Flavorful Excursions (www.flavorfulexcursions.net). Christine loves to eat seafood of any kind, but lobster, crab and crawfish are among her favorites. In addition to SeafoodSource.com and SeaFood Business, Christine’s articles have been published in hundreds of leading magazines and newspapers, such as The New York Times, USA Today and Associated Press.
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Two U.S. grocery chains have upped their seafood soup offerings in anticipation of the fall season.
Monrovia, California, U.S.A.-based Trader Joe’s, which operates 543 stores across the U.S., recently added a refrigerated lobster bisque to its lineup, along with frozen garlic and shrimp flatbread and fresh sesame miso salad with salmon, as part of its private-label brand.
“Our mission is to bring our customers the best quality
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The U.S. government has recently ramped up its seafood purchases for federal school lunch programs across the country, a marked change in its previous practice.
In 2023 alone, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has purchased significant amounts of Alaska pollock, haddock, sockeye salmon, pink salmon, catfish, Pacific shrimp, and Pacific rockfish. And it announced an additional solicitation for up to to 16,720 cases of canned pink salmon for
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The CEOs of Canada’s five biggest grocery chains – Walmart, Costco, Loblaw, Sobeys, and Metro – have agreed to work with the federal government to stabilize grocery prices.
Canadian Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne and the country’s finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, met with the CEOs in Ottawa on 18 September The industry leaders were under pressure to come to an agreement after being threatened
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U.S. fresh and frozen seafood sales and volume declined more than retail data predicted in August, despite continued deflation.
Fresh seafood sales plunged 7.4 percent in August to USD 595 million (EUR 566 million), while fresh seafood volume decreased 6.6 percent. Frozen seafood sales dropped 7.7 percent to USD 619 million (EUR 579 million), while volume in the category fell 8.1 percent.
Even though shelf-stable seafood sales jumped 1.9
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Rhode Island’s economic development organization has launched a national tour of the U.S. state's signature seafood dish.
The Rhode Island Commerce Corporation is taking the stuffed clam, or as it's locally known, the “stuffie”, across the U.S. through the rest of 2023.
Salisbury, Maryland, U.S.A.-based Handy Seafood has partnered with spice company Old Bay again to offer a new frozen crab product – Old Bay Crab Cake Minis – aiming to fulfill Americans’ growing demand for convenience foods.
The new product launch is an extension of the company’s other products it has previously released in tandem with Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.-based Old Bay. Handy Seafood first partnered with Old Bay
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U.S. grocery retailer Albertsons, which operates 2,272 retail food and drug stores nationwide, has enhanced its Sincerely Health digital platform in a move that could encourage its shoppers to eat more seafood.
Albertsons operates retail and drug stores under several different brand names including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw’s, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, and
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ALDI U.K. is partnering with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to promote several MSC-certified seafood products in its stores.
The rapidly expanding grocery chain, which will add 500 locations in the next few years, sells the largest volume of MSC-certified products compared to any other U.K. supermarket, the company said press release.
The promotion is part of the company’s celebration of Sustainable Seafood September, according to
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The U.S. retail outlook for the fourth quarter of this year is dreary, providing an ominous outlook for seafood sales, according to new data and insight from major U.S. grocery chains and organizations.
Though overall U.S. retail sales are up 4 percent compared to last year – thanks largely to growth in e-commerce and mail-order sales – grocery chains are releasing uninspiring financial reports that have led them to readjust their
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Pike Place Fish Market (PPFM), the iconic fresh seafood market inside Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., is facing a trademark infringement lawsuit.
The Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority (PDA), which manages the market, claims PPFM it is illicitly using its name to advertise products nationwide without PDA’s permission.
In a lawsuit filed in early September via the U.S. District Court for the Western
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