After weeks of reviewing the impact of wind and fire to California avocado groves, the California Avocado Commission (CAC) announced a 2018 crop forecast: 374.6 million pounds of avocados. The total, despite the ravages of Mother Nature in California’s avocado growing regions, is nearly double the yield of last year’s crop and considerably better than some had feared. …
Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc.’s (OSF) third nonbrowning Arctic® apple variety, Arctic® Fuji, has been approved by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Health Canada (HC). The CFIA and HC announced today that the Arctic® Fuji variety “did not pose a greater risk to human health than apples currently available on the Canadian market. …
Following an increase in catches last year for the first time in several decades, the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) on Jan. 26 set a “suggested” coastwide catch for 2018 at 28.03 million pounds, a 10.7 million pound reduction. Alaska’s share could be 20.52 million pounds, a drop of 2.1 million pounds from 2017. …
The Seafood Industry Research Fund hosted its annual benefit dinner, the SIRF Soirée. Occurring during the National Fisheries Institute’s Global Seafood Market Conference, the event took place at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami, FL. Seated beneath the museum’s overhead aquarium, over one-hundred industry professionals gathered for a seafood dinner to recognize SIRF’s work and fundraise for the newly established “Mike Gorton Living Tribute Fund.” …
Beginning this January and for the next six months, the BuzzFeed Tasty logo will appear on SeaPak’s Shrimp Scampi product at retailers nationwide. This makes SeaPak the first-to-market frozen retail brand to feature the BuzzFeed Tasty logo on its packaging. …
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