Seafood processors watching worker program closely
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A potential tweak to a federal guestworker program has thrown a big
scare at Middle Peninsula seafood processors who count on hiring workers
from outside the United States to deliver oysters, clams, crabs and
other Chesapeake Bay products to tables and grocery shelves across the
country.
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FDA Seafood Import Refusals increase 50% in 2011
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Dick Gutting, in his Foreign Trade Alerts, reports today that for 2011, seafood import refusals by the FDA increased 50% over 2010. By his preliminary calculation, seafood refusals in 2011 totaled 2,776, up 50% from 2010.
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Scallop prices are at 10-year high as demand spikes
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Lobster prices may be low, but scallop fishermen are smiling with prices near a 10-year high.
Keith Amero has been a scallop fisherman in Digby for 33 years, and since last winter he's seen the price per pound gradually rise.
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No easy answers to New England cod crisis
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In an industry where agreement comes slowly, the sudden prospect of huge fishing cuts to protect New England’s codfish inspired a quick consensus: Scores of fishermen will be ruined if those cuts are passed.
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Maine fishermen expect record prices for scallops
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Maine scallop fishermen expect to get record prices for their catch this season with strong global demand and a diminished supply from Japan and other competing, scallop-producing nations.
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