Cliff White has been the executive editor of SeafoodSource since 2016. Previously, he worked as the senior business reporter for the McClatchy-owned Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit and the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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Jeff Davis is the former CEO of American Seafoods International, Baader North America, and Blue Harvest Fisheries. He also previously served as chairman of the National Fisheries Institute, as a board member for the Marine Stewardship Council and the New England Fisheries Development Foundation, as a member of the Saltonstall-Kennedy Task Force, and as a member of the board of advisors at the Center of Marine Research and Opportunity at
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A series of lawsuits related to sustainability claims and eco-labels have changed the seafood industry’s approach to marketing sustainability bona fides. Lawsuits filed against Mowi, Gorton’s, ALDI, Conagra, Bumble Bee Foods, and Red Lobster are either pending or have resulted in settlements.
The suits should be a wake-up call to the seafood industry that it needs to change its marketing practices, according to Arlin Wasserman
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Japanese seafood conglomerate Nissui is banking on healthy and convenient consumption trends as it concentrates its growth strategy on the United States and European Union.
In its 2023 integrated report, released 22 December, Nissui set the goal of achieving JPY 1 trillion (USD 6.7 billion, EUR 6.2 billion) in total sales and JPY 50 billion (USD 333 million, EUR 308 million) in operating profit by 2030, with 50 percent of net sales coming from
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Isaak Hurst thinks the seafood industry is crazy for not paying more attention to harmonized tariff schedule (HTS) codes.
“I think there is an overlooked opportunity for the seafood industry to save billions of dollars through HTS codes. Really, it's unbelievable,” he said. “Companies could literally be saving millions of dollars a year.”
Hurst runs the International Maritime Group, PLLC – a Seattle, Washington,
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Seattle Fish Co. President Derek Figueroa is retiring and will be replaced by the company’s current chief financial officer, Christian Maas.
The Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.-based seafood purveyor announced the move on Friday, 15 February, and it will take effect 22 March 2024.
“I’ve been truly fortunate to have found my calling and passion with Seattle Fish Company. The decision to leave is bittersweet as I truly love the company,
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Nissui Co. has introduced a plan to spend JPY 17 billion (USD 113 million, EUR 105 million) to expand its seafood-processing capabilities in the United States and European Union.
The Tokyo, Japan-based seafood conglomerate, which operates over 20 seafood industry subsidiaries, including Gorton's, UniSea, King and Prince, F.W. Bryce, Nordic Seafood, Sealord, Mrs. Fridays, Nigico, TNFC, YTC, Delmar, TaiMei, Emdepes, and Five Star, announced the
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Champlain Seafood is permanently closing Riverside Lobster International in Meteghan, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada-based Champlain Financial Corporation acquired Riverside Lobster in August 2017 from Ascendiant Capital Markets. At the time, Riverside processed and sold lobster and scallops to customers in the United States and Canada, as well as 20 countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Champlain Financial combined
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Representatives of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) traveled to India for an intensive training session on U.S. import standards related to seafood decomposition.
U.S. FDA India Country Director Sarah McMullen led the training in Kochi, India, along with experts from the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) and India’s Central Institute of Fisheries Technology (CIFT). The training was designed to
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