Nathan Strout is a Portland, Maine-based associate editor of SeafoodSource. Previously, Nathan covered the U.S. military’s space activities and emerging technologies at C4ISRNET and Defense News, where he won awards for his reporting on the U.S. Space Force’s missile warning capabilities. Nathan got his start in journalism writing about several communities in Midcoast Maine for a local daily paper, The Times Record.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has allocated USD 220 million (EUR 204 million) in fishery disaster relief to the U.S. states of Washington and Alaska for a fishery disaster that took place from 2020 to 2023.
“Fishery disasters have devastating effects on local communities and our blue economy,” U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said. “This disaster funding provides much needed assistance to our fishing industry and we
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Fishing groups and tribes in the U.S. state of Alaska are eyeing potential updates to federal fishing guidelines as a chance to change how several hallmark fisheries in the state are regulated.
Last week, NOAA Fisheries issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, welcoming public input on a number of topics, including climate change, equity in the representation of local fishing communities, and trawl bycatch. The agency will be
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The 2023 salmon season in the U.S. state of Alaska kicked off this week with the opening of fishing along the Copper River on Monday, 15 May.
Alaska Airlines delivered the first king salmon of the season, weighing in at 34 pounds, on Tuesday, 16 May, to an assortment of stakeholders in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Participants in the celebration included representatives from Trident Seafoods, the Copper River Prince William Sound Marketing
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Alaska’s sole member of the U.S. House Representatives said Congress is unlikely to pass a reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act this year or next.
“I think that there is not a very strong likelihood – I think everybody recognizes that there's a very slim chance that Magnuson-Stevens will be authorized this year or this Congress,” U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) said in an interview with Ocean Strategies this
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NOAA Fisheries wants to improve its electronic monitoring of clam harvesting with artificial intelligence, and it hopes to begin collecting imagery to develop the technology this August.
The Northeast Fisheries Science Center is looking for a contractor to install video cameras on a commercial clamming vessel, the ESS Pursuit, develop a machine learning algorithm that can automatically process that video, and produce a large library of images
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An appeals court ruling in favor of Gulf of Mexico charter boats earlier this year could play a big role as the U.S. Supreme Court determines the limits of NOAA Fisheries’ rulemaking authority.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will take up a challenge to federal regulations brought by New Jersey fishermen, who sued the government to stop a 2020 New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) rule that would force
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Creative Salmon is using Innovasea’s BiomassPro technology to provide real-time biomass estimations for its salmon farming operations.
Tofino, British Columbia, Canada-based Creative Salmon farms organic king salmon around Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
“BiomassPro has
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A U.S. federal court has ordered Irvington, Alabama, U.S.A.-based Irvington Seafood to stop distributing seafood following more than a decade of sanitation violations.
Under the court’s order, the company is required to “destroy all raw ingredients and food products currently in their possession.”
Before restarting food processing operations, the Alabama-based company will have to notify the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to purchase up to 470,000 pounds of catfish and 1.2 million pounds of Alaska pollock for use in domestic food distribution programs.
The Alaska pollock will be used for the USDA's National School Lunch Program. The department is looking for both frozen Alaska pollock fillets and fish sticks, with bids due 17 May. The USDA will announce the contract awards by midnight on 23 May.
USDA did not specify
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Fishing groups and the U.S. state of Alaska are lashing out after a U.S. federal judge effectively shut down the king salmon troll fishery in Southeast Alaska in response to a lawsuit filed by the Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC).
In a lengthy statement, the Seafood Producers Cooperative expressed “disappointment and frustration” with the outcome.
“SPC and our fishermen will survive this debacle, as we have survived many others in
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