Seafood

In 2011, California lawmakers passed a law banning the controversial shark fin trade. Though the law doesn't go into effect until January, it's already sparked discontent among chefs and seafood distributors in San Francisco's Chinatown, where shark fin soup remains a popular delicacy. …

The global nature of the Best Aquaculture Practices program recently grew with the BAP certification of the first two-star salmon facility in the Southern Hemisphere. …

Maine Gov. Paul LePage is using his weekly radio address to talk about the need to bolster processing plants so the state doesn’t ship so much lobster to Canada. …

Following an extensive nationwide search, the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) Board of Directors has selected retired Coast Guard captain Michael Cerne to replace Executive Director, Ray Riutta upon Mr. Riutta’s retirement. Mr. Cerne will begin working in the ASMI Juneau office in September to allow for several months of overlap before Mr. Riutta retires in December. …

With cheap wholesale prices, consumers must be benefiting by paying less for lobster, right? Not necessarily. So what's going on here? Why are some businesses lowering their lobster prices while others aren't? This situation illustrates a key pricing concept — value-based pricing — that all companies can learn from. …