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| Jan 31, 2022 | Massachusetts Court Says Breathaylzers Are A-OK Less Than Three Months After Declaring Them Hot Garbage | Breathalyzers are like drug dogs and field tests: they are considered infallible right up until they’re challenged in court. Once challenged, the evidence seems to indicate all of the above are basically coin tosses the government always cl... |
| Mar 30, 2020 | Seafood suppliers forced to adjust to rapidly changing market conditions | U.S. seafood suppliers are working to quickly shift from foodservice to retail and direct-to-consumer channels as they deal with the immediate impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on their businesses.
Filer, Idaho-based Riverence Holdin... |
| Jun 20, 2019 | Whole Foods’ seafood plant closing, impacting 60 employees | The mayor of Gloucester, Massachusetts, U.S.A., is “disappointed” that Whole Foods Market is suddenly closing its seafood processing facility in the city.
The Austin, Texas-based retailer notified the city via a letter to Mayor Sefatia Rome... |
| May 23, 2019 | National Fish & Seafood revived under new ownership, new name | The assets of Gloucester, Massachusetts, U.S.A.-based National Fish & Seafood (NFS) have been purchased by NSD Seafood, which said in a 22 May announcement it planned to restart production of NFS' Matlaw’s stuffed clam line and other pr... |
| Sep 6, 2018 | Gloucester’s Cape Ann Seafood Exchange back in business after feds unfreeze accounts | The Cape Ann Seafood Exchange – the largest seafood auction in Gloucester, Massachusetts – was given the green light by the U.S. Labor Department to resume landing fish on Tuesday, 4 September, after the agency unfroze all bank accounts ass... |
| Aug 28, 2018 | Fed seizure of accounts closes Gloucester’s Cape Ann Seafood Exchange | The Cape Ann Seafood Exchange in Gloucester, Massachusetts, U.S.A., has been closed in the wake of the U.S. Labor Department seizing all the bank accounts of the auction, leaving it unable to pay fishermen for landed fish.
The auction, owne... |
| May 17, 2018 | New England groundfishery gains second MSC certification | The haddock, pollock, and Acadian redfish trawl in the U.S. Gulf of Maine and Georges Banks officially received a second MSC certification on 10 May.
Two companies, Fisherman’s Wharf based in Gloucester, Mass.; and Atlantic Trawlers based i... |
| Jul 27, 2017 | Child Burglar Identified From Amazon Alexa Voice Recording | Child Burglar Identified From Amazon Alexa Voice Recording
Bret Kinsella on July 27, 2017 at 7:33 pm
A 9-year-old boy in Gloucester, Massachusetts is facing charges for stealing several items from a neighbor’s home. The headline-grabbing el... |
| Nov 11, 2016 | National Fish gets one step closer to the Gloucester waterfront | A tax incentive plan put forth by National Fish & Seafood has been okayed by the Gloucester, Massachusetts City Council, better positioning the company to potentially purchase an area facility currently owned by cold-storage provider Am... |
| May 3, 2016 | NOAA reduces monitoring requirements, sets groundfish catch limits in Northeast US | At-sea monitoring requirements for Northeast multispecies groundfish vessels have been lowered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), bringing relief to fishermen who have been forced to absorb its cost due to a rece... |
| Sep 29, 2015 | Future access plans for this waning US fishery shelved for later | Future management plans for the Gulf of Maine northern shrimp fishery will have to wait until next summer.
The three states involved in the northern shrimp section of the Atlantic States Marine Fishery Commission (ASMFC) have decided to pos... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | UMass tuna study sheds new light on spawning | Bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic Ocean reach sexual maturity earlier than previously believed, raising the possibility the Atlantic bluefin spawning biomass is greater than traditional stock assessments have indicated, according to a ne... |
| Feb 6, 2014 | Mass. groundfish fishermen prime to receive disaster funds | Massachusetts, the epicenter of the groundfish disaster that has ravaged the Gloucester small-boat fleet, could be positioned to receive a favorable share of the USD 75 million (EUR 55.2 million) in disaster aid approved for fishermen and f... |
| Dec 30, 2013 | Senate bill target seafood marketing for Mass. | State Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr, renewing his call to confront “serious threats to the survival of the groundfish industry in Massachusetts,” has filed legislation aimed at putting the state’s clout behind marketing seafood products... |
| Jul 23, 2013 | Mass. bill targets seafood mislabeling | When it comes to seafood, Cape Ann and other Massachusetts restaurants and marketers will be facing new truth-in-labeling mandates if a bill filed by a nearby North Shore lawmaker takes hold.
State Rep. Ted Speliotis, D-Danvers, is co-spons... |
| Jul 21, 2013 | New England fisheries get federal disaster relief | The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee bill that would provide for some USD 150 million (EUR 114 million) to address economic fishery disasters and require NOAA to charter fishermen’s boats for cooperative stock assessment research would ... |
| Jul 31, 2012 | U.S. senators push for publication of fish studies | In separate letters, U.S. Sens. John Kerry and Scott Brown have expressed impatience at the delay by the U.S. Commerce Department in making public what is expected to be a second scathing set of case studies by a retired judge of federal fi... |
| Mar 25, 2012 | Study: Georges Bank cod biomass down 46% | A disappointing pace of the rebuilding of inshore cod stocks, which hit the fishing industry with a shock in a new assessment late last year, has now been extended to the offshore cod stock in Georges Bank, according to a new assessment of ... |
| Jan 25, 2012 | Cod cuts could cost Gloucester millions | A statutory need to address a reported widespread decline in the status of the Gulf of Maine cod was translated Wednesday into terms of a potential economic catastrophe for the New England groundfishing industry — with projections of dealin... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Council to sort cod assessment contradictions | New England’s largest fishing industry group, the Gloucester-based Northeast Seafood Coalition, Tuesday cited the case of the disappearing codfish stock as a sign of “a flaw in fishery policy” that makes impossible demands on science in an ... |
| Jan 22, 2012 | What’s the future of Good Harbor Fillet? | American Seafoods Group LLC, the Seattle-based seafood conglomerate that acquired Good Harbor Fillet earlier this week, intends to dramatically shrink if not close the home-grown Gloucester business, putting about 110 people out of work, ci... |
| Nov 16, 2011 | U.S. Senate kills bid to end catch shares | U.S. Senate members of a conference committee have blocked an extension of the Jones amendment through the rest of fiscal 2012, setting aside a measure that would have barred the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from converti... |
| Jan 19, 2011 | Media watch: Il-Legal dinner? | One of the first seafood-related news stories of the New Year to catch the eye of the mainstream media garnered not only coverage but also an abundance of opinions.
The news that Legal Sea Foods, a 30-restaurant East Coast seafood chain bas... |
| Dec 14, 2009 | Media watch: Catch shares on the radar | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week released a draft policy encouraging the use of catch share fishery management systems. The agency said it recognizes that while such systems are not the cure-all for ailing fishe... |
| May 6, 2008 | Who Knew? Take 2: More Strange-But-True Details of Boston’s Innovation Leaders | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Personal insights. Conversation starters. Gossip. Whatever the excuse, it’s high time for the second installment in Xconomy’s Who Knew? series, our wildly popular roundup of l... |
