Monday, December 5, 2022

National US holiday retail seafood sales outlook bright Seafood Source by Christine Blank - December 2, 2022 Analysts and retailers are maintaining a positive outlook for U.S. retail seafood sales this holiday season, despite inflation pushing down fresh and frozen sales in 2022. https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/foodservice-retail/holiday-retail-seafood-sales-outlook-bright International Russia's new investments in pollock surimi spark significant upsurge in volumes Starting for the first time last year with a volume of 8,400 metric tons, this year’s Russian surimi output is expected to quadruple. Intrafish by Evgeny Vovchenko and Rachel Mutter - December 5, 2022 Russia’s pollock surimi production exceeded 24,000 metric tons by mid-November, according to the Russia’s Pollock Catchers Association (PCA), a notable increase made on the back of purposeful investments in the industry last year. https://www.intrafish.com/processing/russias-new-investments-in-pollock-surimi-spark-significant-upsurge-in-volumes/2-1-1363702 *Requires Subscription Labeling and Marketing 3MMI - Dungeness Crab: How Much will there be for the Holiday Season? TradexFoods - December 5, 2022 British Columbia Canada is the only major Commercial Dungeness Crab fishery open right now. Alaska just wrapped up its fall fishery on November 30th harvesting about 1.9 million pounds of Dungeness for the global markets. Washington, Oregon, and California fisheries are all delayed but will open "Before" or "After" the holiday season. Watch Find Out More. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQp8DdFOrAo Federal Register Fisheries Off West Coast States; Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Permitting and Management Regulations for Area 2A Pacific Halibut Fisheries A Rule by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on 12/05/2022 Under the authority of the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982, this final rule implements a permitting system for the Pacific halibut commercial and recreational charter halibut fisheries in International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) regulatory Area 2A (Washington, Oregon, and California). This action also establishes a regulatory framework for the Area 2A Pacific halibut directed commercial fishery that, consistent with the allocations and coastwide season dates set by the IPHC, allows NMFS to annually determine dates and times the fishery will be open and set harvest limits for those periods of time. These permitting and management activities for Area 2A were previously performed by the IPHC; through this final rule, NMFS will now implement these Area 2A-specific permitting and management activities. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/12/05/2022-26325/fisheries-off-west-coast-states-pacific-halibut-fisheries-permitting-and-management-regulations-for Pacific Seafood Processors Association 1900 W Emerson Place Suite 205, Seattle, WA 98119 Phone: 206.281.1667 E-mail: admin@pspafish.net; Website: www.pspafish.net Our office days/hours are Monday-Friday 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. *Inclusion of a news article, report, or other document in this email does not imply PSPA support or endorsement of the information or opinion expressed in the document.