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President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is crippling an entire industry that hand-harvests geoducks, the world’s largest burrowing clam.
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Market forces combined with fishery collapses occurring in a rapidly changing environment caused Alaska’s seafood industry to lose $1.8 billion from 2022 to 2023, a new federal report said.
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Both aquaculture and fisheries have environmental and climate impacts — and they overlap more than you'd think.
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Size is a strength, and the economic value of the industry rose in 2021 and 2022, but employment is declining and recent price collapses are worrisome, the report says.
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Pike Place Market offers a huge selection of seafood. But local chef Taichi Kitamura’s favorite seasonal offering only very rarely shows up at the market: local spot shrimp.
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Washington state is receiving $50 million in CARES Act assistance to bail out its commercial seafood industry. This is the highest allocation among all…
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While lots of people are feeling frightened or inconvenienced by the novel coronavirus, at least one group is also financially devastated: geoduck divers.…
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The owner of a seafood processing company in Pierce County, Washington, has pleaded guilty in a case involving the illegal sale of sea cucumbers,...
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Salmon returns in the Northwest are on many people’s minds this week as fisheries managers meet in Vancouver. They’re considering what might be the first…
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Making sure seafood is both healthy and sustainable can be complicated.A new label called Smart Catch is trying to change that. Launched in Seattle, Smart…