Cliff White

Two trade groups representing U.S. shrimpers have requested the U.S. State Department more evenly enforce a rule prohibiting imports from countries that have not received certification they have required their wild-catch shrimp sectors to use of turtle-excluder devices.

The Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) and the Port Arthur Area Shrimpers’ Association (PAASA) said the federal government’s Section 609 program, made law in 1989,

Ramón Pérez is the chief operating officer of Esbjerg, Denmark-based Alpha Aqua. The company recently won a contract from Metro Türkiye to supply it with a small-scale sea bass aquaponics recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) farm. Pérez spoke to SeafoodSource at the 2024 Seafood Expo Asia, which took place 4 to 6 September in Singapore.

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Great Northern Products has been booted out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a move that will likely result in the winding up of the company.

The Cranston, Rhode Island, U.S.A.-based seafood supplier filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February 2024, but on 4 September, U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Diane Finkle granted a motion from U.S. Trustee Sandra Nichols asking for the dismissal of the case. Nichols had argued in a 22 August motion the

Loch Duart prides itself on being one of the last remaining independent, non-multinational Scottish fish-farming companies.

That independence gives the company a freedom that its larger, often publicly traded competitors don’t have, such as the ability to specialize on operating small-scale, low-impact farms and focus on certain products and markets, according to Loch Duart Managing Director Mark Warrington. The company’s salmon are

Jaw Feng Machinery, a company from Taiwan specializing in vacuum-pack technology, wants a larger profile in the global seafood processing industry.

Founded in 1983, Jaw Feng has sold its thermoforming packaging machines, tray sealers, vacuum-massage tumblers, and its range of vacuum-packaging machinery to companies in more than 100 countries. But, its sales to the global seafood industry represent just 35 percent of its total – a statistic

Six years ago, The Seafood Company realized it had reached market saturation in its home markets of Singapore and Malaysia.

So, the vertically integrated seafood firm now wants to grab a share of the U.S. market with its unique whole panko soft shell crab product.

“We realized our future growth would only marginally increase if we didn’t do things differently,” The Seafood Company Managing Director Kenneth Chia told