Seafood

A father-son team is poised to open “Oaked and Smoked,” a specialty deli and storefront at 2920 Wayne Ave. in Dayton that will sell smoked salmon products to retail customers, restaurants and through a web site to online shoppers throughout the country. …

Coos Bay Oyster Company of Charleston, Oregon is expanding its previous recall of January 30 to include all of its shellstock oysters because they have the potential to be contaminated with Campylobacter, an organism that can cause serious and some times fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. …

Darrell Pardy isn’t afraid to think big. He and his business partner, Ray Swenton, have already grown their company, Bristol Seafood Inc., into one of the largest seafood processors in Maine. But Pardy, Bristol’s CEO, thinks they could at least double that, if not more, in the next several years. In early January, Pardy and Swenton signed a deal with a new equity investor from Silicon Valley who brings both to the company. …

A four-month old organization whose mission is to protect the Gulf’s unique culture and environment while elevating the Gulf seafood brand has been called by the House Natural Resource Committee to testify on the reauthorization of the Magnuson Stevens Act (MSA). …

A project demonstrating an alternative way to grow oysters, using off-bottom systems, has launched in the waters off of Grand Isle. If successful, the project could spark new interest in oyster farming and provide a new source for oysters consumed by the half-shell. …