Seafood

Phillips Foods, the number one selling brand of crab meat and crab cakes in the United States, is proud to announce the hiring of industry leading retail sales experts to spearhead their retail growth strategies for 2013 and beyond.  Phillips has hired a new Vice President of Retail and Club Store Sales as well as two new Sales Managers; revamping the sales team for Phillips retail and club efforts. …

The Ad Hoc Shrimp Industry Committee filed papers with the U.S. International Trade Commission requesting permission to participate in the Commission’s investigation of the impact of unfairly traded imports on the domestic shrimp industry. The Committee is comprised of 180 commercial fishing businesses, unloading/shoreside facilities, shrimp processors and wholesalers, as well as seafood industry organizations from throughout the country. …

Phil Karlin, a commercial fisherman based in Cutchogue, N.Y., has started making and selling various smoked fish products under the name North Fork Smoked Fish. His line includes smoked blue fish fillets and a creamy smoked blue fish pâté, a slightly spicier Caribbean pâté made with smoked swordfish, a mixed smoked-fish dip, and hot-smoked Norwegian salmon pâté (below) and fillets, all tailor-made for easy entertaining. The pâtés and dips are appetite-whetters. The succulent fish fillets can be served alongside a salad, in a sandwich or broken up into a chowder. …

How do you go about restoring a well-known industry brand after it suffers a major setback that draws worldwide attention? And how do you best support the businesses within that industry that lose market share as a result? …

The lobster industry in southwestern Nova Scotia has taken exception to comments attributed to a former federal fisheries minister that it might now be time talk about imposing quotas on lobster fishermen. …