Cliff White has been the executive editor of SeafoodSource since 2016. Previously, he worked as the senior business reporter for the McClatchy-owned Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit and the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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The free trade agreement initiated in 2022 between Nicaragua and China went into effect on 1 January 2024.
China promised Nicaragua a free-trade deal in return for it switching diplomatic recognition from Taiwan in December 2021.
The China-Nicaragua Free Trade Agreement frees up 71 percent of the products sent by Nicaragua to China – including fish, shrimp, lobster, and sea cucumber – from facing tariffs, according to
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has posted a harvest guideline for the 2024 Sitka herring season of 81,246 tons, or approximately 162.5 million pounds.
“[The forecast] is greater than any prior forecast or estimate of spawning biomass for Sitka Sound herring,” ADF&G said in a 22 December advisory announcement.
But with few interested buyers, the fishery, which opens in late March or early April, is not
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The number of companies competing to acquire Fandicosta has been whittled down to two.
Interatlantic and Cabomar remain the sole bidders for the Domaio, Pontevedra, Spain-based seafood supplier, which completed a pre-bankruptcy filing in October 2023. Its ownership group entered Fandicosta into a sale process earlier this year. Worldwide Fishing Company (WOFCO) previously announced its interest in acquiring Fandicosta but withdrew its
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Alaska’s seafood industry is reeling after Trident Seafoods announced its plan to sell off several processing plants.
The Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company, which has a huge footprint across Alaska’s seafood sector, announced on 12 December that it plans to divest itself of its Alaskan assets in Kodiak, Ketchikan, Petersburg, and False Pass, as well as the South Naknek
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The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) has introduced a licensing system for its spanner crab fishery, which previously faced only light regulation.
Mounting fishing pressure and declining catches precipitated the change, according to SFA Assistant Licensing Manager Karyss Auguste.
“Fishermen have been asking us to put in place several measures, as they were becoming concerned, especially with the size of the crabs that are being captured
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Yogyakarta, Indonesia-based JALA, a startup offering a suite of products and services to aid shrimp farmers in the cultivation process and in navigating the industrial supply chain, recently completed a USD 13.1 million (EUR 12 million) Series A fundraising round.
Led by co-founders Aryo Wiryawan and Liris Maduningtyas, JALA aims to bring technological improvements to the shrimp-farming industry in Indonesia. Through its app, JALA provides
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Two-thirds of the quota allowed in Peru’s second anchoveta season has already been caught, which has helped to narrow the global production gap that has posed problems in the fishmeal and fish oil sector.
As of 19 December, 1.1 million metric tons of the 1.6-million-ton quota had been landed, according to La Republica. However, 32.6 percent of the total, or 360,660 MT, were measured less than 12 centimeters, classifying them as
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The U.S. State Department has extended its territorial claims by over 1 million square kilometers, including large swaths of the Arctic and Atlantic seabeds.
Under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, countries have the right to claim any marine resources within their exclusive economic zone, which stretches 200 miles out from their coastline or halfway between two countries’ coastlines. Countries may also claim areas
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U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order expanding the U.S. ban on Russian seafood to include imports of Russia-originated seafood processed in third countries, including China.
The unnumbered executive order, issued 22 December, expands U.S. Executive Order 14068 to prohibit the importation of seafood “harvested in Russian waters or by Russia-flagged vessels, even if these products are then transformed in a third
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