Please join us in welcoming three people to the NAMA team: Andrianna Natsoulas, James Mitchell, and Casey Willson. Together, they make the trio who is moving the Don’t Cage Our Oceans Coalition …
Canastras buy vessels, permits from Blue Harvest bankruptcy
The Canastra family, owners of New Bedford’s seafood auction, closed a deal to buy out groundfish giant Blue Harvest Fisheries from bankruptcy, a move finalized Wednesday with the approval of …
Unpacking the Blue Harvest bankruptcy and what it means on the waterfront
New Bedford Light reporters Will Sennott and Colin Hogan discuss the upcoming Blue Harvest bankruptcy auction, which could have major repercussions on the New Bedford fishing fleet, in our latest …
Blue Harvest bankruptcy leaves millions in unpaid debt to local businesses
Tor Bendiksen knew that Blue Harvest Fisheries was in financial trouble in early September, when the company bounced a $12,500 check. His company, Reidar’s Manufacturing, specializes in building trawl gear …
Blue Harvest files for Ch. 7 bankruptcy, company likely to liquidate assets
Blue Harvest Fisheries has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to records in U.S. federal court in Delaware, concluding an eight-year private equity roll-up of New Bedford’s fishing industry. Read …
Op-Ed Alaska’s Farm Bill promises to safeguard our oceans and fishing families
[. . .] It is with this connection to our state’s natural bounty and coastal families that I applaud Sen. Lisa Murkowski for introducing the Improving Agriculture, Research, Cultivation, Timber, …
Offshore fish farming hurts climate and economy
Read the full op-ed here.
Blue Harvest to shut down, ending reign over New England groundfish
Blue Harvest Fisheries is set to shut down all fishing operations on Friday, its fishermen were told this week. It marks the last in a cascade of sales and closures …
Ban irresponsible aquaculture in WA waters and beyond
By Carl Wassilie As a Yup’ik Salmon Person, I know that for coastal Tribes, including the Lummi, Samish and Swinomish, wild Pacific salmon are sacred and inextricably tied to cultural, …
NOAA Is Rolling Out a Plan to Radically Expand Offshore Aquaculture. Not Everyone Is Onboard.
The cardboard gravestones read “RIP Local fisherman,” “RIP Wild Fish,” and “RIP Humpback Whales.” Assembled in response to new aquaculture sites planned off the coast of California, the gravestones were …
Counter-APEC protest calls attention to corporate-controlled food systems, connecting land and sea
SEATTLE, Wa. — On Thursday, a group of community members representing Washington’s fishing, farming, and food worker communities staged a creative action against the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings …
Big News: Improving ARCTIC Act
NAMA and the Fish Locally Collaborative have been working hard to uplift community-based seafood for years. We’ve told our decision-makers what we need. We’ve written letters, gathered together, taken part …
Demand for cheap shrimp is driving U.S. shrimpers out of business
This “All Things Considered” story highlights the challenges that shrimpers in the Gulf of Mexico are facing in make a living. In addition to the struggles of domestic shrimpers, industrial-scale …
Bristol Bay fishermen protest processors’ low sockeye market price — 50 cents per pound
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Some Bristol Bay fishermen are furious over the 50 cents per pound market price for sockeye salmon that Bristol Bay processors are hitting them with. According …
MA delegation should protect local fishermen from private equity’s grip and ensure accountability in Blue Harvest acquisition
For immediate release: July 22, 2023 Contact: Feini Yin, feini@namanet.org MA delegation should protect local fishermen from private equity’s grip and ensure accountability in Blue Harvest acquisition On the one-year …
A Tiny Fish That Fuels an Atlantic Ecosystem Now Fuels Industry Debates
Hundreds of millions of the little, silvery fish play a crucial role in the ecology of coastal waters all along the Eastern Seaboard, feeding bigger fish like striped bass and …
Op-ed: Saving This Fish Means Saving Our Tribe’s Future
A group of Northern California Tribes are working hard to save the Clear Lake hitch, a small fish that has played a large role in our culture. But we can’t …
At sea as on land? Activists oppose industrial farming in U.S. waters
Perhaps the most notorious industrial farming institution is the concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, in which livestock are raised in crowded conditions that require the heavy use of antibiotics …