Christine Blank, a veteran freelance writer and editor, covers all aspects of the seafood industry, from fishing to processing to selling and serving the final product. When she is not writing for SeafoodSource, Christine gets to taste scrumptious seafood dishes at U.S. restaurants for her food and travel blog, Flavorful Excursions (www.flavorfulexcursions.net). Christine loves to eat seafood of any kind, but lobster, crab and crawfish are among her favorites. In addition to SeafoodSource.com and SeaFood Business, Christine’s articles have been published in hundreds of leading magazines and newspapers, such as The New York Times, USA Today and Associated Press.
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A restaurant in the U.S. state of Mississippi is facing a class-action lawsuit over selling imported seafood and promoting it as locally caught catch coming from the Gulf of Mexico.
The historic Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S.A.-based Mary Mahoney’s Old French House restaurant previously faced federal felony charges over the same issue.
Mary Mahoney’s owner, Bobby Mahoney, as well as co-owner Anthony Cvitanovich, pled guilty to federal
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) plan to launch an investigation into high grocery prices, FTC Chair Lina Khan said at a meeting on 1 August.
Khan announced at the first virtual public meeting of the Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing that she will ask the FTC to launch an inquiry into grocery prices “in order to probe the tactics that big grocery chains use to hike prices and extract
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Encino, California, U.S.A.-based grocery chain Gelson’s is growing its range of sushi products and is committing to greater use of skin-pack technology that extends shelf life.
Gelson’s, a retail operator of 27 stores, all in Southern California, has sold sushi for 20 years in all of its stores, as well as at sit-down wine and tapas bars in 10 of its stores. It is suppplied by Santa Fe Springs, California- based Red Shell Sushi.
With
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