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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Jumping on a social media trend, Saco, Maine, U.S.A.-based Luke’s Lobster is promoting its lobster as a perfect gift for a white elephant holiday gift exchange.
Luke's Lobster recently began selling a Live Lobster White Elephant Kit on its website after a TikTok video featuring a family white elephant swap involving a live lobster went viral. The video has more than 651,000 likes to date and served as inspiration for the White
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The average price of Christmas dinner in the U.S. will be higher this year, but seafood won't be contributing to the bigger bill.
The price of purchasing Christmas dinner at a supermarket will be around 7 percent higher than in 2022, according to Idaho Falls, Idaho, U.S.A.-based research firm Category Partners, which looked at Nielsen IQ data for the 52 weeks through 2 December.
A basic Christmas dinner purchased from a supermarket for a family
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is purchasing up to USD 36 million (EUR 33 million) of wild shrimp from the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and the South Atlantic, U.S. Representative Garret Graves (R-Louisiana) announced in a press release.
The purchase is possible thanks to funds available under the USDA’s Section 32 Funds for Strengthening Markets, Income, and Supply, Graves’ office said.
Graves’ office said the purchase will
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Consultants and grocers are anticipating higher sales of seafood in U.S. retail stores over the holidays, as research points to many Americans wanting to cook at home more during the year-end break.
“We expect seafood sales to continue their positive trends throughout November and December,” Fresh Thyme Meat and Seafood Sales, Merchandising, Marketing, and Procurement Lead Jason Resner told SeafoodSource. “It might not be [the
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San Diego, California, U.S.A.-based Bumble Bee Seafoods is targeting millennials this holiday season by rolling out two new marketing initiatives that primarily focus on Americans’ growing interest in snacking.
Bumble Bee recently teamed up with actress Christy Carlson Romano, who is best known for her roles in such TV shows as “Kim Possible” and “Even Stevens,” both of which came out in the early 2000s. Now,
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Walmart is partnering with Sacramento, California, U.S.A.-based Uncle Sharkii Poke Bar to open fast-food style poke bars inside its stores across the U.S.
The deal will be initiated with the opening of 10 new locations throughout California over the next five months, Uncle Sharkii said in a press release.
“My dream has been to bring the essence of the Sharkii Ohana to millions of families who shop at Walmart,”
Following a month in which U.K. grocery sales soared 6.3 percent to GBP 11.7 billion (USD 14.7 billion, EUR 13.7 billion), London, U.K.-based data and analytics firm Kantar is projecting that U.K. grocery sales will surpass GBP 13 billion (USD 16.4 billion, EUR 15 billion) for the first time ever in a monthly period this December, suggesting that the nation’s consumers are less wary to shop as inflation continues to ease.
“The scene
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is inviting companies to bid on contracts to supply 405,000 pounds of wild salmon, in a continuation of the department's support for the Pacific Northwest commercial salmon fishery. The announcement comes soon after the agency awarded more than USD 2 million (EUR 1.85 million) in contracts to supply domestic catfish.
The USDA wants to purchase 252,000 pounds of wild frozen salmon fillets and
Acme Smoked Fish Chief Marketing Officer Teresa Low is confident that “snack kits are here to stay.”
To prove the Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.-based smoked fish supplier’s commitment to the convenient food option, the company recently launched “Lox in a Box” snack kits. The Lox in a Box snack kit includes two options: Acme’s smoked salmon with cream cheese or the smoked salmon with a guacamole spread, both of
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After a significant pollock purchase of USD 1.75 million (EUR 1.6 million) in November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking to buy more wild Alaska pollock with a deadline to receive bids of 13 December.
Simultaneously, the agency awarded a significant walleye contract worth more than USD 1.4 million (EUR 1.3 million).
In the new bid solicitation, the USDA is inviting offers to sell 230,000 pounds of frozen pollock fillets and sticks
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