Seafood

The Honourable Gail Shea, Regional Minister for Prince Edward Island and the Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, announced today the Government of Canada will invest almost $970,000 to support three innovative aquaculture projects in Prince Edward Island. Representing the Government of Prince Edward Island was Fisheries, Aquaculture and Rural Development Minister Ron MacKinley. …

Norwegian salmon farmers can freely send fish to the United States for the first time in 21 years after U.S. officials dropped a penalty tariff stemming from old charges that Norway had dumped underpriced salmon in U.S. markets. …

A statutory need to address a reported widespread decline in the status of the Gulf of Maine cod was translated Wednesday into terms of a potential economic catastrophe for the New England groundfishing industry — with projections of dealing a $70 million hit to Gloucester's economy alone. …

The Best Aquaculture Practices program has awarded its first certification of a salmon-processing facility to Multiexport Foods S.A. The vertically integrated salmon-farming company's plant in Puerto Montt, Chile, received the certification Jan. 16. …

Bell Aquaculture, a pioneer in sustainable fish farming operations, teamed with Indiana Soybean Alliance, Virginia Cobia Farms, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Freshwater Sciences and The Conservation Fund's Freshwater Institute to present the 'Future of Fish' at Bell Aquaculture's operations in Albany and Redkey, Indiana. The announcement is made jointly by Norman McCowan, President of Bell Aquaculture, and Shelia Lingle, Director of Aquaculture for Indiana Soybean Alliance. …