Joe Biden

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

US industry body, the Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) has formally requested the Bureau of International Labor Affairs of the US Department of Labor (ILAB) add Indian shrimp to the 2024 List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor and, separately,…

28th March 2024

SSA calls for Indian shrimp to be added to forced/child labour lists

28th March 2024

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

The US Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced the next steps to conserve and recover endangered North Atlantic right whales with US$82 million in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act – regarded as…

19th September 2023

Biden administration gives $82m for right whale conservation

19th September 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

US President Joe Biden’s decision not to embargo products from Mexico despite the country’s failure to halt illegal wildlife trade threatening the critically endangered vaquita porpoise has drawn fire from the environmental NGO…

21st July 2023

Environmental groups slam Biden’s vaquita response

21st July 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

US President Joe Biden has elected not to issue an embargo on Mexican wildlife products despite the country being found in breach of a US law requiring federal action against countries found…

20th July 2023

United States holds off issuing Mexico trade ban

20th July 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A Final Determination has been issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Water Act to help protect Bristol Bay, regarded as the world’s most productive wild salmon ecosystem.

1st February 2023

President protects salmon

1st February 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

A new National Seafood Council for the United States has moved a step closer with Congress passing a $1.65 trillion bill funding the federal government for Fiscal Year 2023.

2nd January 2023

US seafood progress

2nd January 2023

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Alaska seafood processing company Northline Seafoods has confirmed the successful funding and launch of a new project to build a mobile commercial salmon processing platform.

5th December 2022

Northline processing first

5th December 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The new National Security Memorandum (NSM) issued by US President Joe Biden to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and related harmful fishing practices is a step in the right direction…

30th June 2022

Biden IUU plan ‘not enough’

30th June 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

US President Joe Biden has signed a National Security Memorandum (NSM) to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and related harmful fishing practices.

29th June 2022

Biden moves on IUU fishing

29th June 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

US President Joe Biden has announced that in response to the invasion of Ukraine, the United States’ trade status with Russia has been significantly downgraded and that imports of Russian seafood and…

14th March 2022

Biden bans Russian seafood

14th March 2022