Seafood

The Global Aquaculture Alliance, the leading standards-setting organization for aquaculture seafood, is pleased to announce the Best Aquaculture Practices certification of four salmon farms owned and operated in British Columbia, Canada, by Grieg Seafood B.C. Ltd. …

The PNA Western & Central Pacific skipjack tuna fishery (PNA skipjack fishery) has had its purse seine fishing operations targeting free schools of skipjack tuna certified as sustainable against the MSC environmental standard for sustainable and well managed fisheries.
…

The state Legislature’s Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure has scheduled a public hearing on Wednesdayto address fish mislabeling in Massachusetts. …

A potential tweak to a federal guestworker program has thrown a big scare at Middle Peninsula seafood processors who count on hiring workers from outside the United States to deliver oysters, clams, crabs and other Chesapeake Bay products to tables and grocery shelves across the country. …

A Richmond company that claims to sell only sustainable and legal seafood says it is the innocent victim of a dispute between first nations and the federal department of fisheries and oceans. …