Michigan Whitefish 88 Percent Of $5.4M Commercial Catch

April 22, 2016 Garret Ellison, Mlive.com

State-licensed commercial fishing boats pulled $5.4 million worth of wholesale fish — mostly whitefish — from Michigan's Great Lakes waters in 2015.

Gulf Shrimp Landing Volumes Once Again At Record Levels In March

April 22, 2016 Southern Shrimp Alliance

In total, 3.5 million pounds of shrimp were landed in the Gulf last month.  The Southern Shrimp Alliance has compiled landings data reported by NOAA back to 2001.  Just as with the landings data reported for the month of February, the volume of shrimp landed in the Gulf last month is the single largest for the month of March in that sixteen-year time period.

Updated SIMBA User Interface Aims To Improve Business Processes & Traceability For Meat/Poultry Processors

April 22, 2016 Dynamic Systems, Inc.

Dynamic Systems, Inc., a Redmond, Washington leading software developer specializing in barcode data collection, has announced an improved touch screen user interface for their SIMBA system for production and traceability reporting.

Full Body Of Evidence Shows Processed Meats Safe, Nutritious

Processed meats remain a safe and nutritious part of a balanced diet, and attempts by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) to sound warnings about processed meats in a new report are misguided because they rely on a few weak studies when many other studies have affirmed their safety.

Another Chicago Meatpacker Selling Fulton Market Property

Another meatpacker is ready to sell its property and move out of Fulton Market, where the estate of Flying Food Group founder Sue Gin also is weighing a potential sale of extensive real estate holdings.