Nantucket’s Bay Scallop Season Extended Through April 14
The Select Board voted unanimously Wednesday to extend the Nantucket’s commercial bay scallop season until April 14 at the request of local fishermen. …
Month: April 2018
Harsh Winter May Indicate Slow Start To Maryland Crab Season
The Maryland crabbing season, which started Sunday, could be getting off to a slow start this year because of the cold temperatures. …
SIRF Sponsors Crab Enhancement Study
The Seafood Industry Research Fund has sponsored a study reviewing best practices for blue swimming crab stock enhancement. Commissioned to assist the NFI Crab Council in formulating effective policies for bolstering blue swimming crab populations in South East Asia, the study provides a history of enhancement work, a survey of existing methods and recommendations specific to crab fisheries. …
Williamsburg Butcher The Meat Hook Plans Sausage-Driven Expansion
Williamsburg’s The Meat Hook — which recently introduced the lessons at Threes Brewing in Gowanus and which sells more than 80 kinds of links, from sweet Italian to Mexican chorizo — is raising money to launch what it calls the “first fully transparent meat company in the United States.” The Meat Hook Sausage Co., according to the project’s Kickstarter page, will create and distribute across the country a line of sausages made with meat from humanely-raised animals on sustainable, local farms, by butchers with New York City food scene cred. …
Perdue Invests Millions In Higher Welfare Stunning And Processing
Perdue Farms announces it is investing more than $15 million at its Milford, Del. facility, the country's largest organic poultry plant, on a higher-welfare controlled atmospheric stunning (CAS) system plus a live-bird handling process that will be the first of its kind in the U.S. Perdue is the only major poultry company in the country to commit to converting 100 percent of its plants to CAS instead of electrical stunning, which eliminates the process of shackling conscious birds. …
