Alaska Copper River fishery closes for the season Cordova Times by Margaret Bauman - October 13, 2023 Commercial fishing was all but over anyhow when the Copper River District commercial salmon fishery closed at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, with the preliminary season harvest for Prince William Sound at 63.3 million salmon. https://www.thecordovatimes.com/2023/10/13/copper-river-fishery-closes-for-the-season/ International Trident Seafood's Joe Bundrant: 'The entire industry needs to step up to a uniform standard of supply chain integrity' Executive says seafood companies have a duty to rid forced labor from their supply chains. IntraFish - October 13, 2023 (The following guest commentary was sent to IntraFish by Joe Bundrant, CEO of Seattle-based Trident Seafoods.) Earlier this week, The New Yorker magazine published an in-depth report highlighting human rights abuses in the Chinese seafood sector. The report reveals what is essentially an open secret in some parts of the world, exposing the heartbreaking and inhumane treatment suffered by Uyghur and other workers in seafood processing plants throughout China. https://www.intrafish.com/opinion/trident-seafoods-joe-bundrant-the-entire-industry-needs-to-step-up-to-a-uniform-standard-of-supply-chain-integrity/2-1-1534728 *Requires Subscription Environment/Science NOAA announces funding for algal bloom research Seafood Source by Nathan Strout - October 13, 2023 NOAA has announced USD 20 million (EUR 19 million) in awards for research on dangerous algal blooms and hypoxia. https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/noaa-announces-funding-for-algal-blooms-research 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.
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