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

Ð 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...

Striped Bass not overfished!

The Atlantic States Striped Bass management board has approved new estimates for the reference points that determine whether the Atlantic striped bass stock is over fished. Under current law, if a sto...

Scallops show Chesapeake still bountiful

Virginia's scallop industry took an overworked fishery and turned it into the state's most valuable one. As Virginia's seafood industries built on the Chesapeake Bay struggle, the st...

Fishing responsible for state's creation - Alaska!

Alaska celebrates its 50th anniversary as a US state next year. Many don't know that fisheries spawned the push to statehood - ' One of the main reasons the territory was purchased from t...

Gainning Customers a challenge for restaurantuers

More than one-third of consumers (35 percent) said they are eating or buying dinners out less frequently than one year ago, reports foodservice consultants Technomic. Money issues dominated the reason...

Cobia - a few facts

Cobia is the only species in the family Rachycentridae. Remoras (Family Echeneidae) are their closest relative. The scientific name for cobia is Rachycentron canadum, which is derived from two Greek w...

Alaska is a Sustainable Fishery leader

More than 100 people attended the forum, hosted by Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI). The majority represented companies that are big customers for Alaska seafood in the U.S., Europe and Asia,...

Cold temperatures in Alaska blamed for Salmon shortages

Theories abound as to why so many of Alaska's salmon returns have been weak this year, but many blame it on cooler water and weather. 'That transition from fresh water to the marine envir...

Tilapia gains in popularity

Tilapia is quickly rising up the chart, fueled by consumer demand for healthful, mild whitefish. The farmed fish held on to the No. 5 spot this year at 1.142 pounds per capita (one notch ahead of catf...

Seafood Consumption on decline??

U.S. seafood consumption declined in 2007 for the first time in three years. According to NOAA, the average American ate 16.3 pounds of fish and shellfish in 2007. This is the same level as in 2003, a...

Texas Shrimp Season Opens today!

About 200 shrimp boats left Brownsville and Port Isabel on Monday for their bread and butter Texas shrimp season. Most of the boats had been fishing in Louisiana during the recent opening their. Th...

The dollar losses again

The U.S. dollar has given up most of its recent gains, with Bloombergs US currency index falling back to its level of last April. The dollar hit a record low against the Euro toay, trading over €...

Sustainability an issue here to stay

ustainability is rapidly becoming the most significant social and economic movement of our time. It will permeate every aspect of consumers' lifestyles, business infrastructures, and other societ...

Fisherman using trash to fuel the !

Scituate--Abandoned nets, traps and and ropes are not Frank Mirarchi's preferred catch. But for the better part of a decade, the commercial fisherman from Scituate has pulled the debris out of t...

Omega 3's fed to infants may help with Asthma!

Mothers who take fish oil supplements during the last trimester of their pregnancy could be reducing the risk of their child going on to develop asthma, claims a study published today in the American ...

Barton Seaver Leaves Hook

Barton Seaver has reportedly left his post as chef at Hook, a Washington, D.C., restaurant focused on sustainable seafood. According to the Washington Post, Seaver's lawyer and Hook's o...

Eat fish be healthy

Girls who eat more omega-3 fatty acids outsmart those who eat higher amounts of omega-6 fatty acids, according to new research. As a result of this and other studies, government dietary recommendati...

Sustaining the shrimp supply

Forty years ago, shrimp were a luxury item, an expensive delicacy reserved for a fancy dinner party or an anniversary dinner. But as demand rose and aquaculture techniques were perfected, it became po...

Everyone likes Green - especially fisherman

Several local fishermen have recently gone green with their existing vessels and have already pocketed the green that otherwise would have been combusted by fuel prices surpassing $4 a gallon. Mart...

More Positive News for Fish Eaters!

Eating oily fish and other foods containing omega-3 fatty acids may reduce the risk of age-related eye disease, research suggests. Scientists combined the results of nine studies looking at the ef...

Can Monkeys Fish?

Long-tailed macaque monkeys have a reputation for knowing how to find food - whether it be grabbing fruit from jungle trees or snatching a banana from a startled tourist. Now, researchers say they ...

Coho Salmon a good Seller

Underrated and overlooked, coho, or silver, salmon often takes a backseat to king salmon, which steals the spotlight when the coveted Copper River salmon harvest initiates Alaska's summer salmon f...

Truckers Strike in Chile Ends - only slight interuption in supply

The truckers strike that had paralyzed salmon shipments from Chile ended early this morning. Rodrigo Infante, the general manager of SalmonChile, said that the entire supply chain of salmon produc...

Farm raised Salmon has less Mercury

A new study published inEnvironmental Toxicology and Chemistry finds that although mercury levels in both wild and farmed salmon from British Columbia are substantially below human health consumption ...

Louisiana Fisherman finally seeing disaster relief

Chris Kirkham, West Bank bureau - The state is unfurling a $27 million federal relief program for the commercial fishing industry in the New Orleans area this week, in what will be the first direct ai...

Acid in Pacific Waters hurts Sea Life

A panel of U.S. marine scientists are warning that the Pacific Coast's increasing acidity could disrupt food chains and threaten the shellfish industry. The increasingly corrosive water threate...

Alaska Moves to Protect its resources

Congress passed Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Senator Lisa Murkowski's (R-Alaska) joint resolution (S.J. Res 17) directing the United States to negotiate an international agreement for managi...

Copper River through the Roof!

Copper River salmon nets high prices for fishermen and at seafood counters. Just like last year, wild weather kept salmon landings low and prices high for the first opener at Copper River. The fisher...

Salmon on the rise

Producers of Chilean coho, imported in the largest quantities to Japan, are now moving to raise their prices as fuel and personnel costs have been on a rise in that country. Similarly, the prices o...

Grouper and Snappper fighting government hook regulations

Slow down on the rush to require circle hooks in the Atlantic Ocean's snapper-grouper fishery, both commercial and recreational fishermen will tell federal managers. Members of the recreationa...

Making Sense of Sustainable Accreditation

John Sackton Seafood News.com with material from Business Wire] (Washington, D.C. may 9, 2008 - Ð More than a dozen Canadian and U.S. organizations today released steps companies can take to develop ...

Squid Wars

May 7, 2008 - A headache for squid importers in Boston is about to get a whole lot worse for the seafood industry. The US Fish and Wildlife Service has said, in a letter to importers, The Service...

Tuna Farming in Chile

Aqua.cl] Translated by Angel Rubio Canas - May 6, 2008 - Daniel Catalan, general manager of AquaNegocios Ltda., together with the Development Corporation of the University of Arturo Prat of Iquique, a...

Diesel Hurts

(CNNMoney.com) -- Rising diesel prices have slammed the trucking industry and hurt independent truck drivers, and Congress is looking for solutions. Members of the House Committee on Transportation...

Squid another example of Government oversight

Squid problems continue as NMFS asks Congress not to ignore fact that squid are considered shellfish SEAFOOD.COM NEWS by John Sackton - May 5, 2008 - Northeast squid importers have been hit ...

Interesting use of Salmon

May 2, 2008 - OSLO, Norway, A Norwegian food manufacturer said it will invest about $8 million to make a tasty hot dog from salmon meat. Mega fish-farming giant Gustav Witzoe said it believes putti...

Increasing Labor Costs in Chile

Salmon farming in Chile is shifting to Atlantic salmon from coho; but producers are faced with a burst of problems such as fish disease and rising wages According to the Chile Salmon Farming Assoc...

Congress tries to control oversight of ocean management

Congresional Quarterly By Avery Palmer, CQ Staff April 28, 2008 - A bill that would set national policy for protecting and restoring ocean ecosystems was approved April 23 by a House subcommittee. (se...

The effects of fuel - a closer look

April 28, 2008 - MOREHEAD CITY -- In one night of working the water, a commercial fisherman can burn hundreds of dollars on fuel alone. "A (shrimp) trawler can burn 100 gallons a night. At $3.75 a g...

Greenpeace harrasses illegal Pacific Tuna harvetsers

SYDNEY, Ship-borne activists said they had targeted fishing boats from South Korea, Taiwan and the United States in high-seas protests against the plundering of tuna in the Pacific, reports AFP. In...

Continuous USDA Inspection could be coming!

SEAFOOD.COM NEWS by John Sackton - April 25, 2008 - NFI, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the National Restaurant Association, plus a number of Senators whose committees have traditionally worke...