Chris Chase is the Portland, Maine-based associate editor of SeafoodSource. Previously, he worked covering local issues at the Coastal Journal in Bath, Maine, where he won multiple awards from the Maine Press Association for his news coverage and food reviews. Chris is a graduate of the University of Maine, and got his start in writing by serving as a reporter and later the State Editor of The Maine Campus, an award-winning campus newspaper.
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The Russian Crab Group of Companies has increased its crab catch in the first half of 2024 by 40 percent and is preparing to receive one of the crab catcher-processing vessels it commissioned as part of Russia’s investment quota auctions.
Russian Crab Group said it has produced 9,500 metric tons (MT) of crab so far in 2024. The company attributed the 40 percent increase in catch to the new quotas it obtained via an investment quota
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The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Lobster Board has initiated the process to delay a gauge size increase for the U.S. lobster fishery until 1 July 2025.
The ASMFC first delayed an increase in the lobster gauge size in October 2023, after lobster trawl surveys indicated a decline in the population of sub-legal lobsters. The gauge size increase was first initiated in 2017 as a proactive measure to improve the resiliency of
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A recent dispute over snow crab tolerances in 2023 that led to arbitration favoring the Fish, Food, and Allied Workers Union (FFAW) over the Association of Seafood Producers (ASP) has underlined a need to reexamine the longstanding policy, ASP Executive Director Jeff Loder told SeafoodSource.
On 5 August, the arbitrator determined that processors failed to adhere to certain aspects of the 19 May 2023 crab agreement between the FFAW and ASP.
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