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Collaboration, “Buy American” efforts emerging from COVID-19 crisis

March 24, 2020 — Sea Pact, a collaborative association of 11 leading American and Canadian seafood companies, has issued an appeal to the industry, urging it to use the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to work together on supply chain issues.

Sea Pact, which counts Inland Seafood, Seattle Fish, Fortune Fish and Gourmet, and Santa Monica Seafood as members, is calling on the North American seafood industry to work together to “face the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 global crisis,” the organization said in a press release.

Read the full story at Seafood Source

Fortune Fish: Some East Coast US species still ‘dicey’ to find thanks to Florence

September 21, 2018 — “East Coast [US] product will be dicey this week, to say the least,” thanks to the aftereffects of Hurricane Florence, the Chicago, Illinois-based wholesaler and importer Fortune Fish & Gourmet warns its customers in a blog on its website.

It’s been almost a week since Florence hit the coast of North Carolina and flooding remains throughout the region. As many as 200,000 were still without power on Wednesday evening.

The damage continues to be felt at sea as well.

“From the Carolinas to Maine, many vessels remain in port and most will have trouble getting out to work this week due to the lingering high winds and rough seas from Florence’s aftermath,” Fortune Fish advised on Tuesday.

Read the full story at Undercurrent News

 

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