Brian Hagenbuch spent a decade in South America, where he was a journalist for Reuters and Time Out in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. He now lives in Seattle and works as a freelance writer and translator, as well as a commercial fisherman in Bristol Bay.
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Peter Pan Seafood shook up the world’s largest wild salmon run on 19 June with the announcement it will pay a base price of USD 1.10 (EUR 0.84) per pound for sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
The price upholds reports of a strong market for wild sockeye and is a welcome development for Bristol Bay fishermen, who were disappointed by last season’s base price of USD 0.75 (EUR 0.63).
Peter Pan’s announcement also represents a
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A group of more than 200 businesses and industry associations sent an open letter to the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden and the U.S. Congress yesterday asking for lasting protections in Bristol Bay, Alaska, home to world’s largest sockeye salmon run.
The letter was signed by large foodservice and retail players like Sysco, Hy-Vee, Wegmans, and Publix, as well as outdoor recreation and commercial fishing companies like
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The Alaska Mariculture Task Force has announced the formation of a new private nonprofit organization to help bolster and centralize the state’s growing mariculture industry. The membership-based nonprofit – called the Alaska Mariculture Alliance (AMA) – will launch this summer with a mission to “develop and support a robust and sustainable mariculture industry, producing shellfish and aquatic plants for the long-term
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Online seafood retailer Wild Alaskan Company has announced it is opening a new fulfillment center in the U.S. state of Utah, in partnership with RLS Logistics.
In a news release, Wild Alaskan called RLS “an innovative cold storage and logistics solutions provider.” The new facility will be the seventh fulfillment center for Wild Alaskan, which was founded in 2017 by current CEO Arron Kallenberg.
“We started Wild
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The Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed another lawsuit this week against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of an ongoing dispute over the issuance of permits for commercial shellfish aquaculture in the U.S. state of Washington ...
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Prices for sockeye and king salmon out of the Copper River, Alaska, were sky high after the first couple openers of the season last week. Jon Hickman, Peter Pan Seafood’s vice president of operations, said in a news release that his company paid USD 12.60 (EUR 10.30) for sockeye and USD 19.60 (EUR 16.05) for king salmon.
Hickman said Peter Pan’s markets could handle the high ex-vessel prices, a welcome development for Copper River
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Clackamas, Oregon, U.S.A.-based Pacific Seafood said it contributed positively to better fishing practices, food safety standards, and the environment in 2020, according to its latest annual report. Additionally, the company announced that a former U.S. congressman has joined its board of directors …
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada-based Tradex Seafoods has achieved a longtime goal of sourcing 100 percent of its seafood products from sustainable sources.
The company's goal, set four years ago, was to purchase only products certified by the Marine Stewardship Council, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch, Ocean Wise, or FishChoice for its SINBAD retail line and custom-packed products sold through the company’s
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OBI Seafoods and Trident Seafoods will not be opening salmon processing plants in Alaska as a result of low projected salmon returns.
OB Seafoods’ processing plant in Excursion Inlet, Alaska, will be not be processing fish for the 2021 salmon season due to a string of poor runs in the Southeast district.
And Trident’s Wrangell plant won’t open this year, with plant manager Nick Ohmer telling the Wrangell Sentinel Trident
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Oregon’s pink shrimp fishery is opening with an inventory surplus and extreme market uncertainty resulting from pandemic-related restaurant closures.
Oregon is home to the world’s largest pink shrimp fishery, with a 30-year average annual harvest of around 30 million pounds. The small shrimp – also known as cocktail shrimp or salad shrimp – have traditionally been sold to the foodservice market.
Last season, shrimpers in
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