Seafood

The halibut fishery of the North Pacific — long touted as a model for wise fisheries management and the goodness of privatizing commercial fisheries — is now in such dire straits regulators were Wednesday talking about the possible need to cut harvests to levels not seen since the 1930s. …

Blount Fine Foods, a leading manufacturer of hand-crafted artisan soups and gourmet dips, sauces and salads, today announced the company has acquired the Cape Cod Chowder Company of Marion, Mass. Terms of the asset purchase were not disclosed. Cape Cod Chowder Company is a regionally distributed manufacturer of high quality fresh and frozen soups, dips and spreads. The company manufactures more than 50 different product varieties and sizes. …

Dungeness crab was missing from Thanksgiving dinners, but it’ll likely show up for Christmas after Central California fishermen finally struck a $2.25-a-pound deal Monday with seafood buyers. …

The $1 million fishermen's lawsuit against the Ciulla family and its seafood display auction was filed in U.S. District Court on Aug. 10, three weeks before Kristian Kristiansen acquired the assets of the Gloucester waterfront business. But Kristiansen said Tuesday that, over the course of the negotiations, the Ciullas never informed him that their business was tainted, devalued by the lawsuit. …

In a new study, imaging scans showed that regular fish-eaters were less likely to have brain cells die off in the area of the brain responsible for short-term memory — recalling a phone number that was just heard, for example. …