Cliff White has been the executive editor of SeafoodSource since 2016. Previously, he worked as the senior business reporter for the McClatchy-owned Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit and the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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Theodora, a trendy Mediterranean-style restaurant in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., sells a dry-aged whole branzino for USD 78 (EUR 72).
“It’s so tender; it slips right from the bones,” a server at the restaurant recently told Grub Street.
The restaurant also serves dry-aged Ora King salmon, striped bass, and rainbow trout, fetching a tidy premium for each.
At Il Totano, also in New York City, the best-seller is dry-aged kampachi
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Eide Fjordbruk’s Salmon Eye and its newly Michelin-starred restaurant, Iris, have been named to Time Magazine’s The World’s Greatest Places of 2024 list – a prominent recognition rewarding the family-owned Norwegian organic salmon-farming firm for an innovative effort to meld aquaculture with experiential tourism.
“Housed inside the ellipsoid-shaped Salmon Eye structure – a floating art installation
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The Marine Stewardship Council and Alaska fishing industry representatives are pushing back against a decision by Ocean Wise to drop its recommendation of MSC-certified salmon fisheries in Southeast Alaska.
Ocean Wise, a Vancouver, British Columbia, U.S.A.-based nonprofit organization, operates what it describes as a certification program providing recommendations of fisheries and aquaculture operations that meet certain criteria, including
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Pakistan’s seafood exports dropped to USD 410 million (EUR 378.2 million) in value in 2023.
That total was down 17.4 percent from the 2022 fiscal year, in which Pakistani seafood exports reached USD 496.6 million (EUR 488.1 million), its record high, and far short of its USD 1 billion (EUR 922 million) goal.
Pakistan exported 200,709 metric tons of seafood in its 2023 fiscal year, down 6.4 percent from the 214,542 MT it exported in 2022,
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Peter Pan Seafoods Co-Owner Rodger May and Silver Bay Seafoods, one of the company’s biggest business partners and fierce rivals, are dueling for control of the company’s assets after Peter Pan entered receivership in April 2024.
On 19 July, the Stapleton Group, Peter Pan’s court-appointed receiver, backed Sitka, Alaska, U.S.A.-based Silver Bay’s bid to acquire all of Peter Pan’s canned salmon inventory –
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