A decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is giving Maine’s lobster industry indigestion. The FDA recently ruled that producers of imitation crab products may drop the word “imitation” from their product description. Under the new regulation, products made from fish paste, or “surimi,” can now be sold in retail stores labeled […]
The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky city court have sentenced to different prison terms the captains of two Russian fishing vessels that were found guilty of illegal crab catches, the Kamchatka regional Prosecutor’s Office told Itar-Tass on Wednesday. The captain of the Karla Fey trawler has been sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of 300,000 […]
A species of crab that originates in Asia and can cause massive amounts of damage to riverbanks has been discovered in the Dee estuary.
Environment Agency Wales has been following up reports that Chinese mitten crabs were being caught in the Dee by commercial fishermen as a “by catch” as they netted for flat fish.
Further investigations […]
An angry patron punched two employees of a seafood restaurant after being told he could not get more crab legs. Despite having “several servings” of crab legs, the unidentified man, dining with a woman and two children around 10 p.m. Friday at Mongolian Buffet on 12 Mile Road, got upset that the kitchen was […]
Chinook Salmon are endangered, but despite every effort there are still people, poachers, who could care less. In Sonoma County, there’s a new war on poaching just as the fish begin their migration up the Russian River for spawning. But not everyone is as aware when it comes to the endangered Chinook scallops. That’s why […]
Scientists have discovered species of shrimp, mussel and clam living at temperatures near boiling point three kilometers down in the equatorial Atlantic. They are unable to explain how the shrimp are able to live without being cooked on the walls of volcanic vents carrying fluids from the Earth’s core. Scientists from the Census of Marine […]
Shrimp trawling is described as the most wasteful form of fishing. For every kilogram of shrimp caught, up to 20kg of other fish are unintentionally killed, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This amount of “by catch” is a cause for concern for marine scientists. The FAO estimates that three quarters of […]