Tasteful Selections Celebration Continues With a New Theme and New Prizes

August 11, 2020 RPE

The celebration continues. Tasteful Selections® as part of its 10-year anniversary campaign launches a new theme this month.

Y Combinator’s Kuleana is Making an Animal-Free Substitute for Raw Tuna

Companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat that are making vegetable-based meat substitutes have captured the imagination and wallets of consumers, but so far, there’s been no real corollary for the seafood industry. Now, a startup coming from Y Combinator’s summer cohort, Kuleana, is hoping it can swim in those waters.

Investigating the Potential for Domestication Selection in the Eastern Oyster

One concern with selective breeding as part of a population management strategy is that captivity itself can impose unintended artificial selection. Evolutionary responses to this “domestication selection” can be swift in captive populations with the potential for reduced fitness in the wild relative to wild-born individuals.

IPNLF Launch of the Strategic Plan 2020-2025

IPNLF launches their Strategic Plan 2020-2025 announcing their vision, mission, and IPNLF’s Five Strategic Pillars to cover the key areas of their work to globally represent responsible small-scale one-by-one fisheries.

USDA FSIS Issues Public Health Alert for Ready to Eat Sausage Products due to Possible Listeria Contamination

August 10, 2020 USDA FSIS

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert because Bluegrass Provisions Co., a Crescent Springs, Ky. establishment, produced sausage products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.