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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Urchinomics, a sea urchin aquaculture innovator based in IJmuiden, the Netherlands, entered into two separate business arrangements on 23 and 24 July as part of its overall mission of restoring kelp beds through harvesting urchins and growing them to market size.
The company announced a new capital and business alliance with Food and Life Companies (F&LC) signed on 23 July, which will see the urchin aquaculture company supply F&LC with
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Lerøy Seafood Group has invested in Brunswick, Maine, U.S.A.-based biotechnology company Salmonics.
Salmonics was founded by Sea Run Holdings Inc. and produces reagents and products from blood harvested from farmed salmon. The company collaborates with aquaculture companies farming salmon and turns the blood – which would normally be a byproduct – into different products used in regenerative medicine, cell proliferation, pain
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The Russian Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo) is trying again to sell investment crab quotas in an auction after its first auction failed to attract any interest.
Russia began to announce the results of a new round of crab-quota auctions in October 2023, granting rights to fish several crab species in multiple subzones in Russia. Those auctions followed months of preparation by Rosrybolovstvo, which first said it was planning the
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A pair of fishermen from the U.S. state of Florida are suing the U.S. Department of Commerce, challenging the constitutionality of fishery management councils after the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council (GMFMC) cut quotas for gag grouper by over 80 percent.
Dominick and James Russo, brothers who run FFC Seafood, filed the complaint in federal court in the Southern District of Alabama, claiming the new regulation issued by the
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The European Union is planning a new initiative to upgrade its regulations on Listeria monocytogenes, in a move that could cause complications for the bloc’s smoked salmon industry, which objects to the need for more rules.
Previously, producers were required to show that listeria was not detected in a 25-gram portion of ready-to-eat food in sufficient quantities that its growth over time would exceed 100 colony-forming units per gram
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