Seafood

BlueNalu Announces First-of-its-Kind Commercialization Strategy and Facility Designs for Large-Scale Production of Cell-Based Seafood

August 23, 2019 BlueNalu

BlueNalu, a leading innovative food company producing seafood directly from fish cells, announced today its commercialization strategy and food facility design schematics for large-scale production. This is the first time that any company has provided facility design schematics illustrating the vision for large-scale production of foods via cellular agriculture or aquaculture. …

Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation Announces the 2020 Alaska Symphony of Seafood

August 23, 2019 Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation

The Alaska Symphony of Seafood is a competition for new value-added products made from Alaska seafood. The overall goal is to inspire innovative ways to fully utilize and increase the value of Alaska’s seafood. The Call for Productis now available. …

Maine Officials Fear Regulations to Protect Whales Will Devastate Lobster Industry

August 23, 2019 Zeta Cross, The Center Square

Maine’s lobstermen say regulations set to take place this September to protect New England’s iconic right whales will severely impact their lobster harvest and cause them to lay off hundreds of workers. …

US Maintains Decision to Lift Anti-Dumping Duties on Vietnamese Shrimp

August 22, 2019 Hung Le, Vietnam Express

This means that the 32 Vietnamese exporters of frozen warm-water shrimp will face zero percent anti-dumping duties, Ho Quoc Luc, General Director of Sao Ta Food JSC, a Vietnamese supplier of shrimp and other seafood, told local press. …

California Fishermen Report the Biggest Salmon Season in a Decade

August 22, 2019 Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle

“You might say this is the old normal, because we’ve been so used to catastrophe,” said Noah Oppenheim, executive director at the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations. “Consumers who have been facing tough prices because of scarcity of California salmon are seeing a much more accessible product.” …