South African Summer Citrus Expands US Destinations To Include Port Of Houston

South African Summer Citrus has expanded its arrival destinations with a pilot program to include the Port of Houston. A shipment of seven containers has been successfully received there and will be followed by another four containers scheduled to arrive on or around September 9th. Both shipments contain navel oranges.

California Giant Supports Kids' Nutrition In The Kitchen & Back To School

September 4, 2014 California Giant Berry Farms

As families across the country gear up for that back to school routine, California Giant stays focused on keeping kids engaged in ‘playing with their food’ in a good way.  The company continues to step up its commitment to health and fitness focused activities for kids and families and new programs just launched are already seeing success.

Secret Vote On PEI Lobster Levy Pushed Back To October

September 3, 2014 Steve Sharratt, The Guardian

A secret vote on the future of both a lobster marketing levy and a marketing board has been pushed back until October for all P.E.I. fishermen.

Will Allen Farms & Bell Team Up To Keep Yellow Perch On The Menu

September 3, 2014 Bell Aquaculture

Bell Aquaculture LLC, and Will Allen Farms LLC announced a partnership in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences to continue to provide the highly popular Yellow Perch to the Midwest. This group has a synergistic vision to provide quality, healthy food to the future of humanity using sustainable, ecologically sound methods. Will Allen Farms LLC has established a Yellow Perch fingerling farm located on site at Bell Farms™ in Albany, Indiana. The farm will be critical to maintaining supply of this high demand fish to the Midwest through markets spread across the region and country.

Seafood Watch Upgrades 21 Species Of Groundfish As Good Choice

September 3, 2014 Lynne Terry, The Oregonian

A group with wide influence among consumers, restaurants and retailers has just given the thumbs-up to dozens of species of groundfish that were once in dire shape.