Billions of Snow Crabs are Missing

July 17, 2023 Julia O’Malley, Grist

Some 330 people, most of them Indigenous, live in the village of St. Paul, about 800 miles west of Anchorage, where the local economy depends almost entirely on the commercial snow crab business. Over the last few years, 10 billion snow crabs have unexpectedly vanished from the Bering Sea.

Blue Star Foods Signs $1M Supply Agreement with Bloomin’ Brands

June 8, 2023 Blue Star Foods

Blue Star Foods Corp., an integrated Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) sustainable seafood company with a focus on Recirculatory Aquaculture Systems (RAS), is pleased to announce it has entered into a new $1 million supply agreement with Bloomin’ Brands.

NFI Red Crab Council Continues Fishery Improvement Work in China

The NFI Red Crab Council and its sustainability partners, Ocean Outcomes (O2), are proud to announce they’re entering year 5 of the comprehensive Red Crab Fisheries Improvement Project (FIP) in China. Given the continued progress of the FIP and its ongoing efforts to improve the sustainability of 40,000 mt of crab caught by trawls and pots in the Minnan-Taiwan Bank, the FIP was recently awarded an ‘A’ rating on FisheryProgress.org for producing tangible outcomes on-the-water. 

Washington Crab Recalls Blue Crab Dip 8oz, Cocktail Sauce 8oz, Cole Slaw 8oz and 16oz & Crabcake 2, 6, & 12 Count Packages

April 20, 2023 FDA

The products were distributed between Oct 13, 2022 to April 13, 2023. The Blue Crab Dip, Cocktail Sauce and Cole Slaw were packaged in clear plastic cups and Crabcakes on plastic trays and sold primarily to distributors, restaurants and company retail outlet located in the states of North Carolina & South Carolina.

Inside Kodiak’s Crab Standoff

After the heat wave-induced collapse of the Bering Sea snow crab fishery, some fishermen were looking, with hope, at the upcoming tanner crab harvest out of Kodiak.