Seafood

To help wild salmon lovers kick off the holiday season healthfully and with style, the commercial fishermen of Bristol Bay, Alaska are inviting consumers to try Bristol Bay sockeye salmon this holiday season with five simple recipes, each of which uses a different product form of wild and sustainable Bristol Bay sockeye salmon. The recipes are featured with photos on the Bristol Bay sockeye website, www.bristolbaysockeye.org. …

A new wild-caught Pacific albacore tuna product, Sea Fare Pacific, is now debuting on grocery stores shelves in Oregon including all eight Market of Choice Stores. The creator of this new gourmet tuna in an earth-friendly pouch is Mike Babcock. 2011 after doing extensive research to define the brand and products that ultimately created Sea Fare Pacific’s line of “once-cooked”, gourmet albacore tuna products that are packed in their own natural juices with no preservatives or fillers. …

A panel of lawmakers this afternoon voted to move ahead with a controversial measure that will allow lobster processors in Maine to process imported, oversized lobsters. And it's a measure that's been welcomed by Maine's seafood industry, but is not so popular among the state's 4,000-plus working lobstermen. …

G. Cefalu Bro. and Capital Seaboard—a Mid-Atlantic based wholesale and foodservice distributor of fresh produce and seafood—announced today that Michael Davis has been named Chief Executive Officer and will begin to oversee the operations of both companies. …

The 2011 Atlantic striped stock assessment update indicates that the resource remains in good condition with the female spawning stock biomass (SSB) estimate at 109% of the SSB target and 137% of the SSB threshold (see Figure 1). The estimated fishing mortality rate (F) in 2010 was 0.23, below both the target (0.30) and threshold (0.34). Striped bass are assessed as a single stock although there are at least three distinct stocks contributing to the coastal migratory group: Hudson River, Delaware River, and Chesapeake Bay and tributaries. The striped bass stock complex is not overfished and overfishing is not occurring. …