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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Seattle Fish Co. President Derek Figueroa is retiring and will be replaced by the company’s current chief financial officer, Christian Maas.
The Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.-based seafood purveyor announced the move on Friday, 15 February, and it will take effect 22 March 2024.
“I’ve been truly fortunate to have found my calling and passion with Seattle Fish Company. The decision to leave is bittersweet as I truly love the company,
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Nissui Co. has introduced a plan to spend JPY 17 billion (USD 113 million, EUR 105 million) to expand its seafood-processing capabilities in the United States and European Union.
The Tokyo, Japan-based seafood conglomerate, which operates over 20 seafood industry subsidiaries, including Gorton's, UniSea, King and Prince, F.W. Bryce, Nordic Seafood, Sealord, Mrs. Fridays, Nigico, TNFC, YTC, Delmar, TaiMei, Emdepes, and Five Star, announced the
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Champlain Seafood is permanently closing Riverside Lobster International in Meteghan, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada-based Champlain Financial Corporation acquired Riverside Lobster in August 2017 from Ascendiant Capital Markets. At the time, Riverside processed and sold lobster and scallops to customers in the United States and Canada, as well as 20 countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Champlain Financial combined
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Representatives of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) traveled to India for an intensive training session on U.S. import standards related to seafood decomposition.
U.S. FDA India Country Director Sarah McMullen led the training in Kochi, India, along with experts from the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) and India’s Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT). The training was designed to
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AquaBounty Technologies announced on Wednesday, 14 February a plan to sell its land-based recirculating aquaculture system salmon farm in the U.S. state of Indiana.
At the same time, Maynard, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based AquaBounty has been seeking to raise funds for a separate RAS farm it is building in Pioneer, Ohio, U.S.A. The company broke ground in April 2022, but in June 2023, it announced it was pausing construction due to
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Rancho Dominguez, California, U.S.A.-based Santa Monica Seafood is expanding its operations in the U.S. Mountain West region with the construction of a distribution and processing facility near Denver, Colorado.
The company said the 34,000-square-foot seafood processing and distribution facility, which cost USD 8 million (EUR 7.4 million) to build, is scheduled to be completed by the end of March 2024 and is slated to open in Q2 2024. The
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The U.S. seafood trade deficit reached USD 20.3 billion (EUR 18.8 billion) in 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
U.S. imports dipped sharply from USD 30 billion (EUR 27.8 billion) in 2022 to around USD 25.3 billion (EUR 23.5 billion) in 2023, while exports fell slightly from USD 5.1 billion (EUR 4.7 billion) in 2022 to approximately USD 5 billion (EUR 4.6 billion) in 2023, NOAA trade data showed.
The largest annual seafood
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Sapmer has received a EUR 20 million (USD 21.6 million) investment from existing shareholder Cana Tera that will keep it operating near Reunion Island.
In November 2023, Sapmer, which is based on France’s Reunion Island, a territory in the Indian Ocean, announced that due to financial difficulties, it had sold its four Mauritius-flagged tuna-fishing vessels and was looking to divest from its Reunion fleet.
In a 6 February press
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Jay Lugar is the head of fisheries for the Marine Stewardship Council. In an SeafoodSource interview, Lugar addressed in more detail the problems with MSC's Version 3.0 standard that have resulted in a delay in its implementation.
On 9 February, activist coalition Make Stewardship Count, which has been sharply critical of the Marine Stewardship Council for years, said it opposed the delay.
“This delay is a massive step backward both for
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Bioriginal, a subsidiary of Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, Canada-based Cooke Inc., has acquired POS Biosciences Corp. from Canopy Growth Corp.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada-based Bioriginal produces ingredients and supplements for the human and pet nutrition industries. It has eight manufacturing facilities, 19 warehouses, and offices in Canada; Anaheim, California, U.S.A.; Den Bommel, the Netherlands; and Yokohama, Japan.
POS (Proteins,
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