Potandon Promotes Klondike Potatoes With Summer Recipe Contest

June 24, 2011 Potandon Produce L.L.C.

Potandon Produce has launched America’s Outdoor Recipe Contest, an innovative online recipe contest designed to build consumer enthusiasm for Klondike Potatoes™ and to generate traffic for www.KlondikeBrands.com. The highlight of the campaign: a special promotional video featuring Chef Bryan Woolley and Moses Kinikini, contestant from the latest season of NBC’s The Biggest Loser.

Wild Alaska Salmon Harvest Tops 4 Million Fish

Preliminary harvest summaries released today by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game put the commercial catch at 3,130,000 sockeye salmon, 862,000 chums, 55,000 kings, 44,000 pinks and 3,000 cohos, a total of 4,094,000 wild Alaska salmon.

Norton Sound Red King Crab Prices Climbing

Norton Sound Economic Development Corp. and Norton Sound Seafood Products announced June 28 that fishermen will be paid $5.29 a pound this summer for Norton Sound red king crab at the dock in Nome.

Oyster Farming Off To A Slow Start In Maryland

The state's push to revive Maryland's faded oyster industry through aquaculture has prompted dozens of watermen, seafood dealers and entrepreneurially-minded landlubbers to try their hand. Yet despite promises to streamline what had long been recognized as a cumbersome approval process, most of those new ventures have yet to start, tangled in state and federal red tape.

New From Gold'n Plump: Seasoned Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast Fillets

June 23, 2011 GNP Company

Gold'n Plump®, a brand that's known for consistent, premium-quality chicken products for retail fresh, frozen, and deli meat cases just took convenience to a new level with the introduction of its line of Seasoned Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast Fillets.