Seafood

Ocean Beauty Seafoods announced today the launch of its redesigned website at http://www.oceanbeauty.com. The new website reflects the company’s experience and leadership in high quality sustainable seafood, smoked salmon, value-added products, seafood distribution, and Alaska shoreside processing. …

Consumers and seafood buyers in key markets across the world can be confident that products bearing the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) ecolabel are correctly labelled, according to the latest results of the MSC’s DNA testing program, just published. …

U.S. Representative Jo Bonner, R-Alabama, has introduced legislation to extend the state water boundaries of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, affording the states greater control over reef fisheries and effectively opening up more Gulf waters to fishing. …

An amendment to the continuing Resolution being debated in the Senate was filed yesterday by Alaska's senators, Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich. The amendment called for clear and unquestionable labeling being placed on salmon products that have been genetically modified. …

Several supermarket chains have pledged not to sell what could become the first genetically modified animal to reach the nation’s dinner plates — a salmon engineered to grow about twice as fast as normal. …