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Pacifical Responds To Undercurrent’s Fake News With Facts
The menace of fake news and sensationalized lies has reached even the tuna world, with a London based seafood website, Undercurrent News (UCN), releasing an article with misleading and false information on Pacifical, the successful joint venture between Sustunable and the PNA countries. Pacifical has responded to what appears to be a hit job with a series of facts that aims to stop the efforts to spread information about the joint venture. >click to read<08:45
Pacific Marine Expo blog: Crabbers hope for better prices with opilio quota cut; Interest in buying halibut quota growing
Undercurrent News is reporting live from the Seattle-based equipment and commercial fishing trade show which is the largest annual show on the west coast of the US. The show, which is being held at Seattle’s CenturyLink Field, brings together over 500 exhibitors including equipment companies, propulsion, builders and suppliers. Covered: Crabbers hope for better prices with opilio quota cut – Vessel broker: Interest in buying halibut quota growing – ‘Chix Who Fish’: Company makes fishing apparel for women, and more! Read the article here 10:22
Poor US Pacific whiting fishing set to leave market short of surimi
This fall’s catch of US hake — also called pacific whiting — has been dismal, which will mean lower volumes of surimi for a hungry market. With many American producers having geared themselves toward processing large amounts of surimi, some worry that they won’t be able to fill customers’ orders. With surimi base output dropping in Asia, high surimi demand, and an increased US hake quota, many American catchers-processors, motherships and shore-based processors had set up to produce larger amounts of surimi in 2015 than they normally would. Read the rest here 14:01
Controversial Bristol Bay salmon permit buyback support falters
Bristol Bay salmon fishermen’s 81% support of studying the economic impact of a drift gillnet buyback program in Bristol Bay broke down into a general sense of opposition during a Pacific Marine Expo discussion on the program last week. Fishermen and regulators criticized the potential program’s cost, whether it is even necessary and the uncertainty of its ability to improve the fishery. Read the rest here 11:37
American Seafoods refutes quota sale reports – Total Speculation?
American Seafoods Group refutes it is looking to sell quota and lease it back, after media reports surfaced stating this was underway on March 26. A statement from the company dismissed a media report, from Intrafish, asserting that American Seafoods is pursuing a proposed deal where an “investor or investors would acquire only American’s quota holdings, then lease that quota back for American Seafoods to harvest”. Read more here 11:28
Undercurrent News erects a Paywall
Deciding to make our content paid-for has not been an easy decision — even harder was deciding how to price ourselves. continued Adios!
Greenpeace whines about John Sackton’s seafoodnews.com pollock redlisting comment while kissing undercurrents fanny
After numerous suggestions to Seafood.com’s John Sackton that his stories about Greenpeace might be more accurate if he took the time to check in with us, we finally concluded that if his biases were obvious to us, they were probably obvious to others as well. Read the rest here 08:31
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