• Trade & Commerce Video Blog

    Seafood Industry Veteran in Portland, ME Talks Trade

    George Parr is the co-founder of Upstream Trucking in Portland, ME. He’s been in the seafood industry since 1976. His business sources and sells seafood to many major restaurants in the Portland...

  • Trade & Commerce Video Blog

    Matt Burke of Quincy, MA Talks Tariffs

    Matt is an owner of Burke’s Seafood; a 3rd generation, family-owned seafood market and restaurant in North Quincy, MA. Since 1979, the Burke family has served local seafood from the Boston area,...

  • Trade & Commerce Video Blog

    Jack Lombard of Portland, ME talks Seafood Sourcing

    Jack is the CEO of Browne Trading Company, a supplier of fine caviar, fresh fish, shellfish, and smoked seafood to elite restaurants and home kitchens across the United States. Browne Trading sources ...

  • Trade & Commerce Video Blog

    Food Safety Expert Talks Global Seafood Supply

    Bob LaFreniere has worked in product development and quality assurance in the seafood industry for 25 years. At Slade Gorton & Co., Inc., he manages a team that monitors the quality of fish receiv...

  • Trade & Commerce Video Blog

    The District FishWife Finds Fish from All Over

    Fiona Lewis is co-owner of The District Fishwife, a seafood market and fast casual restaurant at Union Market in Washington, DC. The District Fishwife celebrates local seafood and loves to offer it to...

  • Trade & Commerce Video Blog

    30 Year NH Fish Plant Employee Talks Seafood Sourcing

    Jeff McKinney has worked at High Liner Foods, in Portsmouth, NH for almost 30 years. Though U.S. fisheries ebb and flow depending on seasons and quotas, the manufacturing plant that employs him has re...

  • Trade & Commerce Video Blog

    Chef Says Importing Variety of Seafood Essential

    Graham Schave is a chef at High Liner Foods in NH. He loves working with seafood because of the variety – seafood offers a rainbow of colors and species, and variety can be the spice of life. Ha...

  • Trade & Commerce Press Release

    Statement on Announcement of Tariffs on Chinese Seafood

    WASHINGTON, DC July 11, 2018– The United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) have established their positions on seafood in the current trade dispute. The misguided strategy, that see...

  • Nutrition Blog

    Reader’s Digest’s Shameless Click-Bait Harms Consumers

    It’s popular to use catchy, click-bait titles on the internet. Writers know it lures readers in and drives traffic. But it is irresponsible to use scary headlines that provide false information and ...

  • Sustainability Press Release

    New NOAA Report Highlights Success of Science-based Fisheries Management

    Washington, DC May 17, 2018 – In a new report to Congress, The Status of U.S Fisheries for 2017, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admiration (NOAA) finds the number of stocks on the overfishing ...

  • Nutrition Blog

    Eagerly Awaiting Laura Reiley’s Next Salmon Story

    When Laura Reiley, the Food Critic for the Tampa Bay Times, wrote a report titled, “The facts about farmed salmon you wish you didn’t know.” We thought it prudent to reach out to her and note so...

  • Health Blog

    Tilapia Called “Evolutionary Rock Star”

    The Public Library of Science’s DNA Science Blog features a prolife of Tilapia from a PhD whose dad was a seafood wholesaler at the Fulton Fish market when she was a kid. Amid the torrent of hyperbo...

  • Trade & Commerce Blog

    Report Highlights Problems for American Farmers Caused by USDA Catfish Program

    In an extensive report on the latest issues facing the USDA catfish regulation program, the Washington Times finds, “farmers from Texas to Oregon and California to Georgia,” are poised to become ...

  • Nutrition Blog

    Dr. Oz Continues to Sell Snake Oil

    Every day, ordinary Americans trust qualified doctors and nutritionists to give them good health and diet advice. Unfortunately, one of America’s most infamous TV doctors abuses that trust. For year...

  • Health Blog

    Dish On Fish Rated #1 On Top 100 Seafood Sites List

    Seafood lovers searching the web for the latest and greatest in relevant recipes and readable content have long sought out the DishOnFish.com and now FeedSpot.com has crowned it the #1 seafood site on...