Seafood

A Blandford company that produces frozen planked salmon is upgrading and expanding its operation. Granville Gates & Sons Ltd., which operates under the Cedar Bay Grilling Co. brand, is launching a $196,000 project to help it expand into new markets and offer more products.

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The goal of the Seafood Congress organizers is to build on existing and create new partnerships between IAFI members and all seafood professionals and specialists to benefit global seafood trade. It also aims to profile innovation in seafood and provide opportunities for maximum participation by all economies involved in seafood trade – including developed and developing economies. This is accomplished through various means throughout the international event– expert panels, debates, workshops and formal presentations. …

Alabama's beer and seafood industries are teaming up for a joint promotion. The Gadsden-based Back Forty Beer Co. will start including the Alabama Gulf Seafood logo on its packaging.

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Low prices, lack of processing facilities, and the risk of losing the family tradition of lobstering were among the topics discussed at length Tuesday afternoon as harvesters met with the state’s marine resources commissioner. …

Dredging and replacing of shells is part of the largest oyster replenishment project in Virginia history, a $2 million effort this summer to help oysters by giving them new places to live and grow — bunches of their own shells, to which baby oysters attach. …