The Shrimp Story

U.S. Shrimp imports were up 8.7% last month but remain 7.2% below 2008 levels.


Top 6 exporters to the US this year are Thailand, Indonesia, Ecuador, Mexico, China and Vietnam—only Thail...

Good news on Fish Stocks

Four U.S. fish stocks — Gulf of Mexico king mackerel, Atlantic bluefish and two species of Atlantic monkfish — have been rebuilt in the past year, bringing the total number of rebuilt stocks since 200...

Seafood Source Reports On Omega 3 deficiencies

A new study found that a deficiency of omega-3 fatty acids in the diet causes up to 96,000 preventable deaths annually in the United States.



Among the dozen dietary, lifestyle and met...

Fresh Dressed SoftShell Crabs are a Guarantee!
The reason softcrabs are so expensive at the moment is due to the water temperature.
Water temps are still in the 50's and this does not pro...

Blue Crab catch looks promising

NC Marine Fisheries] May 4, 2009 - MOREHEAD CITY - North Carolina commercial seafood landings rose by 13 percent in 2008, bolstered by the best hard blue crab harvest since 2003. The increase ends a p...

Bluefin Tuna can be grown successfully!

April 20, 2009 - Syney, Clean Seas Tuna Ltd (ASX:CSS) today announced its ongoing tuna research and feed trials had been successful.

Among the milestones achieved were:

* continuou...

Washington Post reports Crab Population on the rise!

The number of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay increased about 43 percent last year, according to survey data released yesterday, and scientists said it was probably a sign that measures taken to prot...

Did Government quota on Dogfish hurt other economic species?

East Coast fishermen are making their strongest case yet against federal protections for the fish everyone loves to hate.

Surging populations of spiny dogfish, the small pack-feeding sharks w...

Good Explanation of how Science is trying work with Fishing Industry but has its limits

By John Sackton of Seafood.com

The key issue in New England is that the fishery is based on multiple species and stocks (19 all together) which are caught in the same tows. The multi-species ...

Maine Lobster in good shape - just not selling

The value of Maine's lobster catch plunged in 2008 because of the global economic meltdown at the end of the year.

The Department of Marine Resources reported Wednesday that lobstermen c...

Interesting Crab Dredging Judge Ruling!

By Scott Harper
The Virginian-Pilot

Watermen claimed victory Monday in a lawsuit challenging state efforts at banning the controversial practice of dredging crabs from the Chesapeake Bay ...

NOAA New Chief works with Fishermann in New England Dispute

The new head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued restrictions yesterday on New England fishermen that are expected to cut the region's fishing revenue by $17.4 million. ...

Market News 3-23-09

When Spring arrives it brings a lot of super nice fresh seafood with it.
In recent days we will see
fresh West Coast Halibut 10-20 and 20-40 pound average sizes.

We like to try an...

Eat Fish - Grow Up Smarter

GOTHENBURG , Sweden, Fifteen-year-old boys who eat fish at least once a week achieve higher intelligence scores, Sweden researchers found.

The study of nearly 4,000 teenagers, published in th...

NMFS says size a clouded issue

Commercial fishing might be causing genetic changes in fish that swim in the ocean, making them smaller and less fertile.

The latest evidence comes from a laboratory study by New York-based r...

Fishing Subsidies Oppossed

U.S. and state fishing subsidy programs have contributed more than $6.4 billion to commercial fishing operations between 1996 and 2004, accelerating depletion of once-bountiful fish species, according...

Cod to become Aquaculture norm?

March 3, 2009 - Senator Fabian Manning, Government of Canada and Tom Hedderson, Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, along with Mike Cooke, Chief Operating Officer, Cooke Aquaculture, today announce...

Salmon Market Takes A Huge Turn

In recent weeks the seafood industry has seen a major reduction inthe Chilean salmon production. Production is off as much as 40 to 50 percent.The issue seems to be from a virus that is named ISA (Inf...

Salmon disease ISA hurts your pocketbook

With Chile’s farmed salmon production expected to drop between 40 and 50 percent this year, producers here can only hope that the price of the fish – as it has in recent months – continues to rise.

Pollock Catch rates reported Low

U.S. DAP pollock roe production is proceeding at a slow pace, with output remaining half of last season and large roe having a high proportion; market participants foresee rough going in setting auct...

Smithsonian helps teach about Sustainability

The Smithsonian Associates, in cooperation with the National Museum of Natural History, will present a special culinary weekend hosted by Food Network star Alton Brown, Friday, March 20, through Satu...

Fishing Season Closures

The domestic Grouper fishery will close this year from Feb 15th until March 15th

This closure is to protect the spawning fish......

As for Rockfish, the bay season will close today ...

NOAA protects grouper, Snapper Habitat

NOAA has established eight separate marine protected areas encompassing a total of 529 square nautical miles in south Atlantic federal waters to shield deep-water fish species and their habitats from ...

Bush Environmental Legacy in Pacific Ocean

President Bush will create three new marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean today, according to his top aides, a move that will help preserve sprawling sea and island ecosystems and cement the...

Virginia to Buy Back Crab Licenses

Virginia is looking to spend some of its $10 million in federal disaster aid to buy back licenses from watermen who would volunteer to no longer catch blue crabs from the Chesapeake Bay.

The...

Lobster sales Improving!

SEAFOOD.COM NEWS by John Sackton

No lobster fisherman in Nova Scotia will say they can accept the current $3.00 price, but some dealers are reporting stable product movement three weeks into...

Recreational Crab Licenses Coming!

By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer

A traditional birthright of all Marylanders -- the ability to catch a blue crab with a chicken neck, a string and a net -- could soon...

Mis-labeled fish a big problem with imports

Alaska Journal of Commerce] By Margaret Bauman Dec 2, 2008

SEATTLE Mislabeled illegally imported seafood sold into domestic markets is striking a blow to the fisheries industry's income ...

NOAA recommending cut to pollock catch

NOAA has released new scientific information showing a decline in the walleye pollock biomass that has the agency recommending a cut to the pollock catch for 2009 in the eastern Bering Sea.
“Altho...

Maine Salmon Farms coming back to Life

EASTPORT, Maine - It's feeding time at Cobscook Bay's Broad Cove and the 25,000 salmon are hungry.

Their twice-daily dinner arrives on a barge loaded with 80 tons of feed pellets, w...

What we know about Posideon

One of our competitors just closed its doors on Friday. It came as a complete surprise to those of us in the market, but in reality is not that surprising considering all of the difficult economic...

Dining out first to go

The NPD Group, Inc., a leading market research company, released the results of its latest Consumer Spending Indicator study (formerly Consumers Speak Out on the U.S. Economy), now in its 7th month. <...

Stone Crab Season

One of the Keys' tastiest and most unique gastronomic treats, stone crab claws are large and meaty -- closer in size to a 2-pound Maine lobster's claws than a blue crab's claws. Stone c...

Ocean Census taken.

A census of the Ocean's species is taken every decade ofr so. the census is used by scientists around the world to investigate a myriad of different patterns, behaviors and life trends. The cen...

Good Article About Currency Fluctations Effects

Japanese importers are worried about widening price gaps in the domestic market rather than enjoy exchange gains; exporters are hit hard by the yen's rally and dwindling world seafood demand A...

Bush has done OK for ocean preservation!

President Bush's vision for protecting two vast areas of the Pacific Ocean from fishing and mineral exploitation, a move that would constitute a major expansion of his environmental legacy, is ru...

China source is suspect

The industrial chemical melamine is commonly added to animal feed in China to make it appear higher in protein, state media reported, in what appeared to be a tacit admission by the government that co...

New Zealand Kings

New Zealand Kings are a great farm raised fish - very fat and full of great flavor - its a highly recommeded menu item - we did a little research and found that these fish are pen raised in the deep s...

Fish Sales Continue at Slow Pace

Overall Fresh Fish Sales have been lackluster. Price breaks that were offered on some items did not entice buyers to make purchases. Buyers made their selections with caution. The market for grouper...

AN ORDER TO CREATE THE GOVERNOR'S TASK FORCE ON THE ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY OF MAINE'S LOB

WHEREAS, lobstering is an industry with long-standing cultural and economic importance to the state of Maine; and WHEREAS, lobstering is the cornerstone of the economies of Maine's coastal com...

Fishing is a dangerous line of work

The Coast Guard has stopped searching for two remaining crew members missing after the sinking of a fishing boat off Alaska. The Coast Guard said Sunday it was suspending the search after combing n...

Lobster prices head down

The price of Maine lobster, which accounts for 80 percent of the U.S. catch, is tanking. The primary factor, a drop-off in demand by penny-pinching diners, has been in place since summer. But a sec...

Poaching on the increase with economy

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services] - October 21, 2008 - A Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission officer made a big discovery over the weekend: nearly 800 spiny lobster tails, most...

Iraqi Fisherman struggle in new World

Los Angeles Times] By Raheem Salman - October 2008 - FAW, IRAQ, Some days, fisherman Aoun Saleh loves life on the seas: the friendships, the jokes, the singing, especially when they have a big catch. ...

Stone Crab Season Approaches

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services] - October 16, 2008 - Commercial fishermen make the first pull of stone-crab season yesterday, but the dockside news already is bleak. 'Wholesalers sti...

Sushi Guides Available

NEW YORK - Mackerel is in but octopus is out. And bluefin tuna, known as the king of sushi for its fatty belly meat, is a definite no-no. These tips and others on ocean-friendly sushi are now avail...

Shrimp Outlook for Fall

Asian Situation US shrimp imports through July are up a meager 1%; however, July imports compared to a year ago are up over 12% as supplies increase for the last quarter of the year. On a year to d...

Salmon For Next year may be tight!

SalmonChile and the Chilean government have announced a series of strict new measures to continue to try and deal with the ISA outbreak that is hurting salmon production in Chile. The head of Salm...

Ocean Scientist - Opportunities abound

Report to Congress Forecasts Shortage of Marine Scientists The federal departments of Commerce and Education are forecasting a serious shortage of scientists trained to do the high-quality research r...

Go Sox!

Red Sox manager Terry Francona today announced his rotation for the ALCS, which kicks off on Friday night in St. Petersburg, Fla. against the Rays: Game 1: Daisuke Matsuzaka Game 2: Josh Beckett ...

Government moves to protect Georges Bank

2008 HT Media Ltd.] By Ambresh Ranjam - October 7, 2008 - WASHINGTON, Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, has introduced the Georges Bank Preservation Act (S. 3576), legislation that would 'prohibi...

Bluefin May be Savable!

Press News Limited Scientists have discovered more about the migratory patterns of bluefin tuna species and say the revelations could help prevent the disappearance of the heavily harvested giants of...

Seafood News - John Sackton Alaska crab harvesters, organized through ICE (Inter-cooperative Exchange) have proposed an opening fishing price for bristol bay red king crab of $5.15. This represents a...

King Crab Hatchery helps bring species back

The Deadliest Catch it's not, but the results of a research project in Seward might be just as intriguing to skippers of the rugged Bering Sea crab fleet as the next installment of the adrenalin-...

Russian Pollack makes comeback

TINRO's (Pacific Scientific Fisheries & Oceanographic Research Institute) latest survey of the state of fish stocks in the Sea of Okhotsk returned with good news - not only are they healthy, ...

Leathernecks return to California!

MOSS LANDING, Calif. -- Endangered leatherback sea turtles have been spotted again off the central California coast after a two-year hiatus, drawn by jellyfish swarming the area. Scientists with th...

New Zealand knows Sustainability

The Do Sept. 29, 2008 - MASAYUKI KOMATSU isn't exactly renowned for seeing eye-to-eye with New Zealand. He's the man who once called minke whales 'the cockroaches of the sea'. A...

Is Sustainable Worth the Cost?

Despite the perception that retailers in the UK are leading the way in purchasing sustainable seafood, a recent Yougov / Waitrose study found that at the consumer level, things were not changing that ...

Eat Fish - Get Smart

The world's biggest experiment to see if food supplements can boost exam results has concluded that fish oil capsules do make a difference. The results have been revealed two years after Durha...

Warm Water Tails

The State's $300 million western rock lobster fishery is on the verge of crisis with official monitoring revealing there are almost no baby lobsters in prime fishing locations. Department of F...

An interesting solution to over-fishing

A study published in the September 19 issue of Science shows that an innovative yet contentious fisheries management strategy called "catch shares" can reverse fisheries collapse. Where trad...

Deep Sea FIshing Guidelines Established

Two years of negotiations have resulted in the adoption of new international guidelines to limit the impact of fishing on fragile deep sea fish species and habitats, the United Nations Food and Agricu...

Gulf a Disaster!

Commerce Secretary M. Carlos Gutierrez today announced a formal determination of a fishery resource disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, due to the devastation following Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. The e...

Pastuerized Crabmeat Update!

INDONESIA PRICES: It appears prices have stabilized in Indonesia for the time being. Everyone keeps talking about the prices coming down but there haven’t been any indications of that yet…even tho...

How a bi-catch quota can hurt!

U.S. West Coast Pacific whiting fishery closed as rockfish by-catch quota was attained; more than 100,000 tons of whiting quota was left uncaught The Pacific whiting fishery in the U.S. west coast ...

Eating Seafood Makes Smarter Babies

Š A study just released in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds moms who eat more fish, as well as moms who breastfeed the longest, have babies with better physical and mental development...

Eat Seafood to help with Global Warming

Cutting back on red meat will curb global warming, a Nobel Prize-winning United Nations climate expert says. Even having one meat-free day a week will help cut greenhouse-gas emissions and other en...

Pollack looks to secure Sustainability Rating

Seafoodnews.com The Russian pollock fishery, historically larger than the Alaskan fishery, has entered into the Marine Stewardship Council certification process. During the recent fisheries congr...

Are you seafood savvy?

www.nmfs.nooaa.gov/fishwatch Fish watch is a National Marine Fisheries watch site where sustainability is the big news. Fish tries to give an honest, unbiased report on fisheries and species, with...

Cod and Haddock looking Strong

A pivotal scientific study of groundfish stocks off New England, introduced and discussed publicly for the first time yesterday, shattered some assumptions about the winners and losers in the quarter...

Penalty for Species Substitution

A state investigation into fake grouper showing up in Tampa Bay area restaurants has ended in a settlement with the giant food-service company Sysco Corp., which supplied many of the restaurants servi...

market News - due from Gulf

Fresh Fish and Shellfish: Due to inclement weather in the Gulf of Mexico, fishing efforts have been affected. Many domestic items that typically are landed in the Gulf were unavailable. The domestic...

Food Scraps Become Bio-Fuel

Turning everyday waste into gasoline may seem like a distant dream, but thanks to researchers with the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) and Byogy Renewables Inc., it could become a reality...

Senate calls for review of Government oversight

In response to recent complaints by local fishermen questioning the veracity of the Northeast Fisheries Science Centers (NFSC) stock assessment data, Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Ocean...

Governments run out of money to enforce protection

State officials abruptly shelved plans Tuesday for a mandatory tagging system intended to better conserve blue crabs harvested from the Chesapeake Bay, citing a lack of money. About $300,000 is nee...

Good News Hooks save Turtles

Alternative fishing technology has been shown to save turtles while not affecting fish catches, according to a report released by WWF and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC). The r...

Alaska - where Metal meets Fish

Salmon and gold mining. Both are, inarguably, very Alaskan. But today, Alaskans will vote on a ballot measure that is being framed as a choice between the two industries and portrayed by both sides...

Apples to Apples - Species Substitution a real issue

Many New York sushi restaurants and seafood markets are playing a game of bait and switch, say two high school students turned high-tech sleuths. In a tale of teenagers, sushi and science, two stud...

Eating fish reduces risk of Colon Cancer

Casting a wide net in the effort to prevent cancer, scientists have found that eating fish-and the omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil---may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer. Lead author Megan N...

New Foundland prawns MSC Certified

The Northern prawn or coldwater shrimp fishery in Newfoundland has been certified by the Marine Stewardship council. It is the largest shrimp fishery to be certified, and the first Canadian fishery...