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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The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission has established new minimum standards for electronic monitoring on fishing vessels in a move that sustainability-focused NGOs are celebrating as a win.
The commission met for its annual meeting from 2 to 6 September amid calls for increased vessel monitoring from NGOs including Pew and the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation. Those calls were in part heeded, as the commission adopted new
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Nonprofit organization Eat on the Wild Side is working to build demand for sablefish as demand for the resource continues to fall short of its abundance.
Eat on the Wild Side launched a marketing campaign for sablefish – also known as black cod – in July thanks to funding from a fiscal year 2023 NOAA Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant, which gave the nonprofit USD 236,000 (EUR 214,000) to promote the species. The marketing initiative, dubbed
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Norway’s seafood export value recently hit a new record high for the month of August; though, once again, currency effects were a big part of the value increase.
According to data shared by the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC), Norway exported seafood worth NOK 14.6 billion (USD 1.34 billion, EUR 1.22 billion) in August 2024, up NOK 724 million (USD 66.8 million, EUR 60.5 million), or 5 percent, from the same month of 2023. That value
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A recent investigation has discovered that since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, producers and workers in shrimp supply chain in Vietnam are facing declining wages and increased vulnerability to forced labor.
The new report, “Laboring for Less so Supermarkets Profit More,” comes after researchers – working with independent research teams in Vietnam that were kept anonymous to protect worker identities – talked with
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Norwegian cod-farming company Ode’s farmed Atlantic cod took first place in the World Sushi Cup, which took place recently in Tokyo, Japan, marking the first time that farmed Atlantic cod has featured in the competition.
Ålesund, Norway-based cod-farming company Ode began harvesting fish in November 2022 and, since then, has been steadily increasing the volume of farmed cod being delivered to customers. Ode CEO Ola
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