Cannon Fish Company Opens New Kent, WA Processing Plant to Employ up to 200
Canon Fish Company is opening a new processing facility in Kent, Washington, which will employ up to 200 people. “We are pleased to be opening this new energy efficient, state of the art facility in Kent to process premium Alaska seafood that positively impacts commerce in two states and feeds the world,” said Cannon’s President Pat Rogan. In 2013 Cannon was acquired by the Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association (APICDA)--one of six western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) corporations. The CDQs allocate a percentage of all Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands quotas for groundfish, halibut and crab.
Louisiana’s inshore shrimpers reported good catches and lower prices yesterday after the first day of fishing. Fishermen said the catch was mostly made up smaller-sized brown shrimp.
Vietnam’s shrimp exporters are worried about their global market share as major importers are refusing more Vietnamese shrimp due to antibiotic residues. The US, EU and Japanese markets have all refused more shrimp shipments from Vietnam in 2015 versus last year because of antibiotics. Vietnam's trade officials say the increased refusals are giving their shrimp products a bad reputation in the markets.
In other news, it appears Vietnam is ready to reconsider its position on certain agriculture agreements with the US in the Trans Pacific Trade Partnership if the USDA’s Catfish Inspection program is not repealed. “Vietnam will have no choice but to balance out our agriculture offer to the US,” reports from the latest round of TPP negotiations said.
Finally, a comprehensive group of US fishing associations, seafood companies, commercial fishing vessels and individual industry participants have sent a letter to the chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources in support of Alaska Congressman Don Young's draft proposal to reauthorize the Magnuson Stevens Act. However, the letter says support for the bill would be pulled if the amendment to take Gulf snapper management away from federal authorities and move it to the state level is included.
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