Month: May 2013

The brutal competition with cheap imported catfish chased many commercial fishermen out of the business, said Collette, but there’s still a demand for wild catfish and an abundant supply of them in Louisiana’s waterways. In 2011, over four and a half million pounds of wild catfish were caught commercially, raking in $2.3 million in sales for the state. But that number pales in comparison to the amount of imported catfish flooding the U.S. market: around 204 million pounds in 2011. …

Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed into law House Bill (HB) 1200, which begins to tackle seafood fraud in the state. Oceana commends Governor Inslee as our recent seafood fraud testing found not only that 18 percent of fish sampled and sold in Seattle was mislabeled, but that seafood fraud is rampant across the nation. …

On May 29th Pacific Seafood will be celebrating 10 years at their Clackamas location. The Clackamas processing plant, along with the company corporate headquarters, will celebrate this anniversary in conjunction with the completion of construction on their adjoining building, as well as the erection of a 3rd building on the premises to be used as a storage annex. …