Seafood

Gorton's of Gloucester, the global fish processing plant that's a bonafide part of the city's history and heritage, plans to build a new processing line at its headquarters on Rogers Street. …

AgriMarine Holdings Inc. is the leader in solid-wall closed-containment technology for sustainable aquaculture. The Company is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, AgriMarine Industries Inc., has signed a four-year agreement with a major California-based food retailer for the supply of Chinook salmon raised at the Middle Bay Sustainable Aquaculture Institute's (MBSAI) Campbell River rearing facility in British Columbia, utilizing AgriMarine's environmentally sustainable rearing system. …

White shrimp season began in late August, and two months in, the shrimpers here say it is a bad one, if not the worst in memory. It is bad not just in spots but all over southeastern Louisiana, said Jules Nunez, 78, calling it the worst season he had seen since he began shrimping in 1950. Some fishermen said their catches were off by 80 percent or more. …

Crown Prince Seafood proudly announces a new line of pouch-packed sardines to be carried in Wal-Mart nationwide, beginning in late October 2011. The pouches are currently carried regionally in Kroger – Dallas, Dillons – Kansas City, King Soopers – Denver and City Markets – Colorado. …

Stormy weather has taken a big toll on the oyster industry in Connecticut. Jim Markow doesn't consider himself a fisherman in the traditional sense more of a farmer. "We're at the point now where these ones are close to market size," he said. …