Monday, October 20, 2025

National

Meet the 2025 NF Highliners

National Fisherman by Carli Stewart - October 17, 2025

Since 1975, National Fisherman has celebrated the men and women whose work at sea and ashore keeps America’s fisheries strong. Now marking its 50th year, the Highliner Ceremony and Dinner remains one of the most enduring honors in the U.S. commercial fishing industry, recognizing not just skill on the water, but leadership, advocacy, and an unwavering commitment to the future of fishing. Each year, the editors of National Fisherman select a small group of individuals whose influence extends…

https://www.nationalfisherman.com/meet-the-2025-nf-highliners

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International

Senate pushes forward FISH Act to combat illegal global fishing

National Fisherman by Nathan Strout - October 17, 2025

U.S. senators voted to attach legislation designed to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing to the Senate’s annual military spending legislation just before it passed. If passed, the Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvest (FISH) Act would require the U.S. government to establish a blacklist of vessels involved in IUU activities. Vessels on the list would be banned from U.S. waters. The legislation would also require the U.S. Coast Guard to increase at-sea inspections to…

https://www.nationalfisherman.com/senate-pushes-forward-fish-act-to-combat-illegal-global-fishing

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Environment/Science

Marine heat wave known as ‘the Blob’ returns to Pacific, but so far spares Oregon and Washington

OPB by John Ryan (KUOW) - October 16, 2025

A massive heat wave is hitting the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to California.Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles, though they have mostly stopped short of the Pacific Northwest coast. Cool water welling up from the depths is thought to be keeping surface temperatures near the Oregon and Washington coasts closer to normal.

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/16/blob-heat-wave-pacific-ocean/

FYI’s

Albertsons promotes new national director for meat and seafood operations

Albertsons is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States.

Intrafish by Rachel Sapin - October 15,  2025

Major US retailer Albertsons has hired a new national director of meat and seafood merchandising and execution.

https://www.intrafish.com/people/albertsons-promotes-new-national-director-for-meat-and-seafood-operations/2-1-1886688'

No longer just a rotisserie chicken story': where seafood is winning at US grocery stores

This category is redefining how Americans shop for, and consume, their seafood at retail.

Intrafish by Rachel Sapin - October 16, 2025 

Prepared seafood in the US deli sections of grocery stores is emerging as the next big frontier for seafood sales.

https://www.intrafish.com/markets/no-longer-just-a-rotisserie-chicken-story-where-seafood-is-winning-at-us-grocery-stores/2-1-1887439

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