About Seafood

WASHINGTON, DC September 21, 2020 — Reports from China say coronavirus was found on the packaging of squid imported to that country from Russia. With this in mind, it is important to understand that...

WASHINGTON, DC September 9, 2020 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s announcement that it will provide $530 million to support the men and women who harvest seafood, whose livelihoods have been...

Global health organizations continue to find there is no evidence of food or food packaging being associated with the transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19. Virus Surviving on Surfaces Is...

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Aquaculture More than half of the seafood Americans eat each year is farmed, and with fish farming (aquaculture) recognized as the fastest growing form of food production in the world, that percen...

Coronavirus is a deadly pandemic that should be taken seriously. There is no question about that. However, how the media reports on it and the studies that purport to offer insight into it need to ta...

WASHINGTON, DC August 21, 2020 — Today’s announcement from the Trump Administration that tariffs on live and frozen U.S. lobster exports to the European Union (EU) have been immediately eliminated...

A recent Australian study about microplastics has been making headlines the past few weeks. The researchers tested a small handful of seafood products – 5 wild blue crabs, 10 oysters, 10 farmed ...

WASHINGTON, DC July 30 2020 — The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) has decided to reschedule the 2021 Global Seafood Market Conference (GSMC) from January to May as part of an effort to ensure att...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today Representatives LaHood (IL) and Panetta (CA) introduced the Providing Liquidity for Uncollectible Sales (PLUS) Act. This legislation provides a tax credit to offset uncollec...

July 17, 2020 Washington, DC – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer today announced the appointment of Robert DeHaan to the Agricultural Technic...

WASHINGTON, DC July 15, 2020 — The National Fisheries Institute commends the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee for its work in submitting its Scientific Report to the Secretaries of Agriculture ...

WASHINGTON, DC July 14, 2020 — Yesterday’s announcement of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) New Era of Smarter Food Safety blueprint demonstrates how the agency plans to rapidly evolve i...

July 13, 2020 Washington, DC – Bloomberg, the giant media company with reporters in more than 100 countries, has corrected its piece originally titled, “China Signals Shrimp Virus Risk After Salmo...

WASHINGTON, DC July 10, 2020 — Today the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China suspended imports and ordered recalls of frozen shrimp from three Ecuadorian companies ...