Chris Chase

Editor

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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Published on
July 3, 2024

Statistics posted by the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo) are forecasting a lower salmon catch in the country’s Far East year over year, as the beginning of the fishing season has gotten off to a slow start. 

Russian salmon fishers in the Far East are predicted to catch 320,000 metric tons (MT) of salmon based on initial forecasts from VNIRO – the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography.

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July 2, 2024

AquaBounty Technologies has agreed to sell its recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility in the U.S. state of Indiana to Superior Fresh. 

The company, in an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), said that AquaBounty Farms Indiana and AquaBounty Farms Ohio – both subsidiaries of AquaBounty Technologies – entered an asset purchase agreement with Superior Fresh on 28 June. The agreement will see

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June 28, 2024

A bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives has re-introduced a bill in the latest bid to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA).

U.S. representatives Jared Huffman (D-California), who is the ranking member of the U.S. Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries, along with Ed Case (D-Hawaii), Mary Peltola (D-Alaska), and U.S. Delegate James Moylan (R-Guam), reintroduced the “Sustaining America’s Fisheries

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Published on
June 27, 2024

Representatives of the European Union fishing industry are calling a mackerel quota agreement between the U.K., Norway, and the Faroe Islands disappointing in the face of continued overfishing of the stock.

The governments of the U.K., Norway, and Faroe Islands agreed to a series of fisheries arrangements for the Northeast Atlantic mackerel stock a stock shared between the three countries and the E.U., Iceland, and Greenland. In

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Published on
June 27, 2024

Lineage, one of the largest cold storage and logistics companies in the world, has filed a registration statement to pursue an initial public offering (IPO).

The company announced in a release that it is planning to list its common stock on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol “LINE.” The company added that there can be “no assurance” on when the offering will be completed or what the size of the

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June 27, 2024

For the first time since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Klion Group organized a booth at the Seafood Expo Global exhibition.

Albacor LLC, based in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, comprises one part of the Klion Group, which has multiple divisions – including eight sales branches in Ukraine, a fish-processing plant in Zaporizhzhya, a chain of seafood shops in Ukraine, a trading company in Georgia, a fishing company in

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