Pet Owners Seeking Out Food Free from Wheat, Soy, Artificial Colors and More
Consumers have shifted away from purchasing food options with artificial products, and they're doing the same when it comes to purchasing food for their pets. According to a new study from Nielsen, more and more consumers are looking to buy pet food that is free from wheat, soy, artificial colors, fillers and corn.
Nielsen published data that shows consumers spent nearly $5 billion purchasing pet food with wheat-free claims. Soy-free food was right behind, with nearly $4.5 billion spent...
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Pet Owners Seeking Out Food Free from Wheat, Soy, Artificial Colors and More
Consumers have shifted away from purchasing food options with artificial products, and they're doing the same when it comes to purchasing food for their pets. According to a new study from Nielsen, more and more consumers are looking to buy pet food that is free from wheat, soy, artificial colors, fillers and corn.
Nielsen published data that shows consumers spent nearly $5 billion purchasing pet food with wheat-free claims. Soy-free food was right behind, with nearly $4.5 billion spent...
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Euclid Fish Files Class Action Lawsuit Alleging Price Fixing by Marine Harvest, Other Salmon Firms
Euclid Fish has enlisted the high-powered law firm, Hausfeld, to file a US anti-trust case against Norwegian Salmon producers. The case was brought in Miami district court.
Hausfeld has won some of the largest anti-trust cases and settlements in history, including one against a consortium of banks challenging their method of converting currency, and another against Volkswagen for their diesel mileage cheating.
The complaint charges a conspiracy to keep salmon prices artificially high through coordination, explicit conversations, and coordinated attempts to...
Full Story »Bumble Bee's Canadian Business Explores Sale
Clover Leaf Seafoods Co., a private equity-backed maker of canned seafoods, is weighing a sale, said people familiar with the matter.
The Canadian business of Lion Capital-backed Bumble Bee Foods LLC retained investment bank Houlihan Lokey Inc. to run a sales process, the people said.
Clover Leaf generates roughly $30 million in annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, they added. A Clover Leaf representative didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Founded in 1871, Markham, Ont.-based Clover Leaf is a maker of canned products...
Full Story »Atlantic Capes Fisheries Claims Listing With 'Dirty Dozen' Companies Based on False Information
Atlantic Capes Fisheries, and its labor contractor in New Bedford, BJs, settled a widely publicized sexual harassment case in January that resulted in a $675,000 payment that mostly went to four immigrant women workers. They filed the suit after not receiving action on their complaint about a supervisor who threatened to fire them unless they accepted his sexual advances.
Based on news stories about this settlement, Atlantic Capes Fisheries was named one of America's Dirty Dozen companies by COSH, the National Council for Occupational Safety and...
Full Story »Chinese Demand for Imported Shrimp May Grow 20% This Year
Recently 7FRESH of JD has released a list of fresh food products popular online during the first quarter. Regarding China’s domestic seafood, crayfish have become a hot commodity among foodies. Meanwhile, in terms of imported seafood, Ecuador’s white shrimp and Chile’s salmon steaks stand out and have won over consumers in the huge market.
In addition to statistics from China’s e-commerce giant, customs statistics also illustrate the great demand for imported seafood. For example, as official data show, there has been a great increase in China’s import of white shrimp from Ecuador...
Full Story »GAPP, Gorton’s Announce Partnership with Celebrity Food Influencer and Chef Antoni Porowski
As part of its North American Partnership Program, the Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers (GAPP) announced today that with Gorton’s Seafood, it will be partnering with Queer Eye star and Emmy Award-winning TV personality, actor, food expert and restauranteur Antoni Porowski to create new recipes—and buzz—for Wild Alaska Pollock. This project, one of twelve recently funded by the GAPP Board of Directors for the second round of the North American Partnership Program, aims to bring millennials around the dinner table, introducing them to...
Full Story »Alaska Seafood Industry Snapshot
This is Alaska Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch - An updated snapshot of Alaska’s seafood industry.
Alaska’s seafood industry puts 60,000 people to work, meaning $1.5 billion in earnings for fishermen on more than 9,000 vessels and workers at 87 large shoreside processing plants.
The seafood industry supports at least $150 million a year in taxes and fees.
And here’s why state budget watchers should care about fish prices: In 2017, for example, the average dock price per pound for all Alaska seafood was 41 cents. If it had increased by one penny, it would...
Full Story »How Canada's Fledgling Land Shrimp Industry is Working Toward Becoming the 'New Cannabis'
In the middle of giving a tour, Sheldon Garfinkle peers into one of his company's water tanks. Blue shrimp the size of fingers dart away from him, hiding in the far corners.
"They can hear us," he said. "They are very sensitive creatures."
Garfinkle's great accomplishment is that these sensitive shrimp are alive at all, trotting around tanks stacked six levels high. For five years, the biggest problem in Canada's fledgling, indoor shrimping business has been dead shrimp. If the water is too cold, they die...
Full Story »2 Nova Scotia Lobster Fishermen Take Licence Fights With DFO to Court
A second Nova Scotia fisherman with health issues is joining a legal fight to challenge federal fisheries rules that cap the number of years they can hire a replacement to catch lobster under their licences.
Lawyer Richard Norman filed in Federal Court separate requests for judicial reviews on behalf of Dana Robinson of Parkers Cove, N.S., and Lester Martell of L'Ardoise, N.S., earlier this month.
"As long as people have control over their business, and are operating their business, my clients believe that they...
Full Story »REPORT: American Samoa Must Diversify Economy or Face "Economic Disaster"
A new report from American Samoa's government says the territory must diversify its economy or face a potential economic disaster.
The American Samoa Commerce Department this month released its draft economic development strategy, detailing what it calls a "harsh reality."
The Commerce Department has come to a grim conclusion: if American Samoa's last tuna cannery closes, it will trigger a catastrophic economic disaster.
The draft report on the territory's development strategy for the next four years adds that it would likely send it into...
Full Story »Atlantic Natural Foods Proclaims April 30 'World TUNO Day'
The UN's World Tuna Day is coming up on May 2, but this year Atlantic Natural Foods will be celebrating World TUNO Day on April 30.
Atlantic Natural Foods is the producer and manufacturer of plant-based, shelf-stable food, including Loma Linda's tuna alternative, Tuno. According to the company, their decision to proclaim April 30th World TUNO Day is a "symbolic gesture to encourage consumers to eat more sustainably and bring awareness to the long-term need to create alternative protein sources...
Full Story »Why Are Gray Whales Dying in the San Francisco Bay?
Gray whales are currently making their annual trip to Alaska. After breeding in the coastal lagoons of Baja, California, they're traveling 10,000 miles north to eat. Adult males are the first to migrate. Young, non-breeding whales follow suit.
But their journey this year has been fraught with peril. So far, seven migrating whales have been reported dead in the San Francisco Bay — some from colliding with ships, which is not unusual, others from starvation, which is rare.
"When there isn't enough food…
Full Story »Weak Logistics Services Cause Great Losses to Mekong Delta Exporters
The poor logistics services in the Mekong Delta have pushed up the costs of export goods, especially farm produce, and caused great losses to export firms, it was reported at a workshop on enhancing connectivity to improve value chains of farm produce and aquatic products in the Mekong Delta, held in Can Tho city on April 23.
Deputy Director General of Minh Phu Seafood Corp Chu Van An said his company, which is based in the Mekong Delta, has to transport goods to Ho Chi Minh City for...
Full Story »Long John Silver's Celebrates the End of Lent Food Restrictions with Secret Menu Item
Quick-service seafood chain Long John Silver's is celebrating the end of Lent food restrictions with a secret menu item … a chicken taco.
At the start of Lent, Long John Silver's launched a new campaign with their record label Fish Yeah!™Records, and their first signed band, Coral Benders. Every Friday, from March 6 to April 19, Long John Silver's released a new song from the "beach-adjacent dad rock" band from Washington, D.C. The campaign concluded with the debut of a...
Full Story »New England Fisheries Officials, Lawmakers Want NOAA To Slow Proposed Rules On Lobster Gear
The top marine resources officials from Maine and New Hampshire, joined by Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine’s 2nd District, are sharply criticizing the federal government’s efforts to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale and are calling for a slowdown of plans to impose new rules that could be costly for New England’s lobster fleet.
In a letter sent Friday to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the commissioner of the Maine Department of Marine Resources...
Full Story »WDFW, Army Corps Collaborate on Restoration, Bridge Replacement to Benefit Salmon and Whales
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are moving forward with a 38-acre estuary restoration project on Hood Canal. Estuaries in Puget Sound and Hood Canal are critical habitat for Endangered Species Act-listed chum and Chinook salmon, a key prey of southern resident killer whales.
A design agreement signed by WDFW Director Kelly Susewind and Army Corps Colonel Geraldi allows the Corps to begin the design phase of a large restoration at the mouth of the Duckabush River...
Full Story »Iceland Expects 50% Expansion of Farmed Salmon This Year, Surge in the Future
Given the problems with sea lice in Norway, and the continued high demand for salmon, investment has flowed into new areas such as Newfoundland and Iceland where salmon farming has significant opportunities to expand.
The Icelandic Food and Veterinary Authority has said that it expects salmon production to reach 20,000 tons this year, up nearly 50% from the 13,448 tons produced in 2018.
Partly this is driven by new investments, and by more farms coming online.
Salmar has recently added to its stake in...
Full Story »Ship Capable of Washing Sea Lice from Farmed Salmon Now on B.C. Coast
A huge vessel capable of offering what is described as "fish friendly health treatments" to farmed salmon is now at work for the largest Atlantic salmon farming company in British Columbia.
Mowi Canada West, which operates Marine Harvest fish farms in B.C., says the Aqua Tromoy is the most technologically advanced vessel ever to serve the Canadian aquaculture industry.
The Polish-built, 77-metre vessel, which launched last year, can hold 3,000 cubic metres of water, the equivalent...
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