Steve Bittenbender works as a freelance journalist based in Louisville, Kentucky. Besides working for SeafoodSource.com as a contributing editor, Steve also works as an editor for Government Security News and as the Kentucky correspondent for the Reuters News Service. He also works as a sports writer for The (Louisville) Courier-Journal and The Associated Press. He has received awards from the Kentucky Press Association and the Louisville Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for his on-going and enterprise reporting work.
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Now through Friday, 1 April, the U.S. government will accept public feedback on a draft document that, when finalized, will help guide U.S. policies on aquaculture ...
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A former NOAA deputy administrator in the Trump administration has come out in support of a ban on Russian seafood imports in wake of the country’s invasion of Ukraine ...
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Sales from catfish producers jumped 12 percent in 2021 to USD 421 million (EUR 371.4 million). That’s according to data released this month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture …
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A proposal by Alaska’s two U.S. senators to ban seafood imports from Russia has met resistance in the form of U.S. Senator Edward Markey (D-Massachusetts) ...
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Two U.S. representatives have written a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden’s top trade officials urging them to protect American interests with respect to a source for Chilean sea bass ...
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Alaska’s U.S. senators have filed a bill that would prohibit the country from accepting seafood imports from Russia.
Republican U.S. Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski filed S.3614, the U.S.-Russian Federation Seafood Reciprocity Act, on Wednesday, 9 February. The bill seeks to respond to Russia’s embargo of American fish and other seafood products that was put in place after the U.S. and its allies placed a series of sanctions
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced the allocation of USD 50 million (EUR 43.9 million) in grant funds to help the seafood industry in 25 states and territories.
The funding, which Congress appropriated in the COVID-19 emergency relief portion of the Consolidated Appropriations Act passed in December 2020, will be awarded to state agencies to help companies that operate fishing vessels and processing facilities reduce the cost of
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The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has asked the Mexican government to provide environmental consultations regarding its efforts to protect the critically endangered vaquita.
U.S. Trade Representatives Katherine Tai said in a press release on Thursday, 10 February, the request is tied to making sure Mexico “lives up to” the environmental commitments laid out in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.
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Preliminary data from NOAA Fisheries shows shrimp landings from the Gulf of Mexico were at a historic low for December and that the 2021 yearly total was only marginally better than the historically low 2020 campaign ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has resumed surveillance inspections across the country as the number of COVID-19 cases have declined nationwide ...
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