The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is updating the Produce Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Harmonized Food Safety Standards for field operations, harvesting, and post-harvest operations. The changes will align the USDA food safety audit checklists with the newly released Produce GAPs Harmonization Initiatives Standards. …
A Native Hawaiian fisherman is asking a state board to declare that only people who are lawfully admitted to the United States can get commercial fishing licenses. …
The 2016 harvest from Rhode Island’s oyster farms was down slightly from the previous year, according to the annual shellfish farming report released by the Coastal Resources Management Council. The culprit is an algal bloom known as rust tide. …
Following reports of norovirus-like illnesses in people who report eating raw oysters from several areas in Washington and elsewhere, public health officials at the Washington State Department of Health have tracked down areas where some of the illness-linked oysters were harvested. …
A 1913 National Geographic article proclaimed them “the world’s most valuable water crop,” cultivated as a year-round, dependable and inexpensive protein source. About 150,000 people in 35 countries worked to produce “the most popular and most extensively eaten of all shellfish.” The situation more than a century later is quite different. Oysters remain desirable, but populations have been decimated. …
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