The commercial lobster fishing industry is getting an early Christmas present from NOAA. The Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office released a notice on Friday to announce $1.6 million in federal ...

Tampa Maid Foods is starting off the New Year with a new partnership. The Florida-based value-added seafood and specialty products supplier announced Monday that they have partnered with the Global ...

This year the Norwegian Food Safety Authority is carrying out audits on some of the larger farming companies in the country following the death of 62.8 million salmon in Norwegian farms in 2023. The ...

The South Pacific Tuna Corporation (SPTC) announced this week that they are reducing their purse seine fishing vessels by more than half. SPTC will be selling more than half of their 14 U.S.-flagged ...

This morning Ocean Beauty Seafoods and Icicle Seafoods announced the merger of their salmon and Gulf of Alaska groundfish operations to form a new company called OBI Seafoods. The announcement has ...

Pescanova introduced three new ready-to-cook shrimp products within their Seafood Tapas range while at Seafood Expo North America earlier this week. Pescanova launched their Seafood Tapas line last ...

Russia posted a significant increase of salmon catch this year, despite earlier forecasts of its inevitable decline after several years of record catch. According to latest data of Rosrybolovstvo, the ...

Worldwide per capita fish consumption has hit a whopping 20.5 kilograms (45.2 pounds) per year. According to the latest “The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture” report from the Food and ...

October is National Seafood Month – a distinction proclaimed by Congress over 30 years century ago to recognize one of our nation’s oldest industries. Government figures show that nationwide, the ...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), in consultation with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have released interim ...

West Coast industry concerns about taking observers out on vessels or having catch monitors dockside at processing plants due to the risk of COVID-19 is not a concern, according to the NMFS West Coast ...

This column from SeafoodNews Founder and Publisher John Sackton is a new trial feature that may continue as John retires from active management of SeafoodNews. His voice is one of the most respected ...