The first recipients of Copper River’s prized king and sockeye salmon will be front-line workers at Seattle's Swedish Hospital. The season opened yesterday for 12 hours on the Copper River flats to a ...

Worldwide per capita fish consumption has hit a whopping 20.5 kilograms (45.2 pounds) per year. According to the latest “The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture” report from the Food and ...

Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, took issues affecting Maine's lobster industry to the Commerce Appropriations Subcommittee hearing this week – ...

AquaBounty and Intrexon announced this week that their jointly developed gene edited line of tilapia is “exempt from GM regulation” according to Argentina’s National Advisory Commission on ...

After waiting two months for the Dungeness crab season to open in southern Oregon, crab from the are must now be eviscerated before being sold due to elevated levels of domoic acid. The meat remains ...

This morning Ocean Beauty Seafoods and Icicle Seafoods announced the merger of their salmon and Gulf of Alaska groundfish operations to form a new company called OBI Seafoods. The announcement has ...

Following years of research, AquaMaof Aquaculture Technologies is ready to debut its land-based shrimp farm in 2020. The new facility marks the successful adaptation of its successful RAS technology ...

Experimental farming of sockeye salmon in seawater began for the first time in this fiscal year. It is in response to the salmon driftnet ban instituted in the Russian EEZ in 2016, which restricted ...

Recently China has witnessed an obvious increase in shrimp prices. Statistics from the October point to an increase of about 3,000 yuan to 4,000 yuan per ton ($427.98-$57.64/ton USD) for its domestic ...

A legal fight has broken out among the owners of Mar-Lees Seafood in New Bedford. A group of investors bought out most of Mar-Lees from John Lees in 2010. Lee’s returned for a while as CEO, but left ...

Prices on Chinese catfish frozen fillets have been strengthening since the second quarter of 2019 due to increased tariffs on this imported species. All sizes are currently ranging in between $3.85 ...

This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch…. Today is Ash Wednesday - the start of Lent, a time of fasting and soul searching for hundreds of millions of Christians around the world. The word Lent derives ...