Month: September 2017

For the month, over 16.7 million pounds of shrimp were reported as landed in the Gulf of Mexico, up from 14.2 million pounds in August of last year. Total landings were 6.4 percent below the prior fifteen year historical average (17.9 million pounds). Shrimp landings on the West Coast of Florida, 137,000 pounds, were the lowest reported for any August in the sixteen years of data compiled by the Southern Shrimp Alliance. Shrimp landings in Mississippi, 591,000 pounds, were the second lowest reported for any August over that same timeframe. In contrast, shrimp landings in Alabama, 2.5 million pounds, were the second highest for any August over the last sixteen years. …

The Department of Marine Resources announced on Saturday that all of Blue Hill Bay north of a line between Naskeag Point in Brooklin and Lopaus Point in Tremont would be closed to shellfish harvesting indefinitely because of the risk of amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP). …

TC Transcontinental Packaging is delighted to introduce Oven N Done™, Fresh Meals Made Easy™, a new innovative packaging solution for the supermarket perimeter. Developed and created by the teams at Robbie in Lenexa, Kansas, this new solution offers supermarkets the opportunity to package fresh seafood or poultry meals with vegetables using their own stores' chef inspired recipes, spices and seasonings. …