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savingseafood.org | Nathan Strout |Seafood Source
April 16, 2025 — U.S. regulators were forced to close the Northern Gulf of Maine scallop fishery less than two weeks into the season as fishers wait for the Trump administration to approve new quotas. The New England Fishery Management Council (NEFMC) approved new scallop quotas for the 2025/2026 seasons under Amendment 39 in December 2024, establishing a quota for the Northern Gulf of Maine federal fishery of 675,563 pounds for 2025 and a quota of 506,672 pounds for 2026.
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savingseafood.org | Nathan Strout |Seafood Source
April 15, 2025 — U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has named a new head of NOAA Fisheries, the agency charged with managing the nation’s commercial fisheries, even as the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump plans on slashing the regulator’s budget and moving its functions to the U.S. Department of Interior. On 14 April, the government announced that former commercial fisherman and officeholder Eugenio Piñeiro Soler will serve as assistant administrator for NOAA Fisheries.
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savingseafood.org | Jason Holland |Seafood Source
April 14, 2025 — Elevated economic and political upheaval and the looming threat of tariffs have started hindering investments in the blue food economy, with backers of start-ups finding later-stage funders are edging away from the aquaculture innovation space.
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savingseafood.org | Nathan Strout |Seafood Source
April 14, 2025 –The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council has approved a new electronic logbook system, replacing the current system that hasn’t worked correctly since 2020. NOAA Fisheries relies on an electronic logbook system to track shrimpers activity in the Gulf of Mexico, currently referred to as the Gulf of America by the Trump administration.
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2 weeks ago | 
savingseafood.org | Nathan Strout |Seafood Source
April 10, 2025 — Lawmakers in Congress are debating the impact of the Trump administration’s ever-fluctuating tariffs on the seafood sector, with a handful of Republicans crossing the aisle in favor of curtailing the president’s authority to implement tariffs without review.
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savingseafood.org | Nathan Strout |Seafood Source
April 10, 2025 — U.S. senators are once again pushing legislation that would exempt temporary migrant seafood workers from counting against the national cap for H2-B visas, ensuring the industry can hire the seasonal workforce it needs. “Virginia’s seafood industry relies on seasonal, H2-B workers to help meet demand during peak season,” U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) said in a statement.
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3 weeks ago | 
savingseafood.org | Chris Chase |Seafood Source
April 2, 2025 — The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) is once again calling on the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) to enhance monitoring of its fisheries and engage in science-based conservation of the tuna fisheries it manages. The IOTC is holding its 29th annual meeting from 13 to 17 April, bringing together member nations of the regional fishery management organization (RFMO) to work on management of a range of tuna stocks in the Indian Ocean.
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3 weeks ago | 
savingseafood.org | Nathan Strout |Seafood Source
April 1, 2025 — U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island) has reintroduced legislation to add the state of Rhode Island to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC), one of the eight regional fishery councils that manage commercial fishing in the United States. The Mid-Atlantic Council holds primary management authority over federal waters off the coasts of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.
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3 weeks ago | 
savingseafood.org | Nathan Strout |Seafood Source
March 31, 2025 — Legislation designed to help American farmers access credit could benefit aquaculture firms and seafood processors as well. The Access to Credit for our Rural Economy (ACRE) Act lowers the cost of credit for rural borrowers by making the income from loans issued to agricultural real estate and rural homes exempt from taxes. Read the full article at SeafoodSource
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3 weeks ago | 
savingseafood.org | Christine Blank |Seafood Source
March 31, 2025 — U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is asking for bids on Alaska pollock for domestic food distribution programs as part of up to USD 50 million (EUR 46 million) the agency said it would spend on the fish. Suppliers that want to bid on the contracts for 1 million pounds of pollock fillets, nuggets, and sticks must submit bids by 7 April 2025. Deliveries will be made between 16 May and 31 July 2025. Read the full article at SeafoodSource
