New Jersey Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher today taste-tested Barnegat Light Scallops, Creamless Creamed Corn and Jersey Chantarelles, which the state’s top seafood chef Bryan Gregg will prepare as New Jersey’s entry in the Great American Seafood Cook Off in New Orleans, LA on August 8. …
Most Bristol Bay fishermen were shocked and dismayed when they heard last week that major buyers would pay 50 cents a pound for red salmon. That’s a throwback to the dock prices paid from 2002 to 2004, and is far below the $1.20 or more paid last year.
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The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) has zero tolerance for labor abuses. Our member companies continue to review, monitor and audit their supply chains to safeguard against the abhorrent practices alleged in today’s Trafficking In Persons (TIP) report. …
Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative, Inc. will invest almost $62 million over the next three years to construct a new 80,000 square foot turkey processing facility in Hinton. The expansion will be supported by additional investment in the company’s feed mill in Broadway and its grain elevator in Linville. The Cooperative, which consists of 165 member-growers, will create six new jobs and increase production by more than forty-five percent. Virginia successfully competed against Pennsylvania for the project. …
The U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef held its first ever general assembly just prior to the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association summer conference in Denver recently, bringing together a variety of representatives from producer organizations, businesses and academia. …
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