These Critters Just Landed Man in Jail With $1.5M Fine
The owner of a Washington-state seafood company will spend two years in prison for overharvesting sea cucumbers and pay $1.5 million in restitution—the second such big bust in the West in just over a...
View ArticleWorld's Most Famous Fish Market Closes This Week
After years of delays, Tokyo's 80-year-old Tsukiji fish market is closing on Saturday to move to a more modern facility on reclaimed industrial land in Tokyo Bay. The new $5 billion facility at Toyosu...
View ArticleBuffet Erupts in Brawl Over Crab Legs
Two people were arrested after diners at a buffet restaurant in Alabama got extremely crabby. Huntsville police officer Gerald Johnson says he had just gotten his food at the Meteor Buffet when a brawl...
View ArticleLobster Exports to China Have Fallen Off a Cliff
US lobster exports to China have fallen off a cliff this year as new retaliatory tariffs shift the seafood business farther north. China, a huge and growing customer for lobster, placed heavy tariffs...
View ArticleWhat's Going On With Subway's Tuna Sandwiches?
We already know that Subway’s bread isn’t bread—it’s cake. Now DNA testing can’t confirm the tuna is tuna. What’s going on? Is it time to freak out? Well, actually, probably not. It’s true that two...
View ArticleGuy's Dinner Find: Pricey Pearl in a Clamshell
Michael Spressler thought he'd cracked a molar after biting into a raw clam at his favorite South Jersey restaurant. "But then when I poked it out into the palm of my hand, it was a perfectly round...
View ArticleFinding Puts 'Extra Nail in the Coffin' on Neanderthal Theory
Prehistoric humans may not have had Red Lobster or Long John Silver's, but that doesn't mean they didn't enjoy a good seafood sit-down as much as their modern-day relatives. In fact, scientists have...
View ArticleMaine's Lobster Industry Is Up in Claws
A coalition representing the Maine lobster industry is suing an aquarium on the other side of the country for recommending that seafood customers avoid buying a variety of lobster mostly harvested in...
View ArticleIt Is Possibly the Biggest Maritime Operation in History
It might very well be "the largest maritime operation the world has ever known," writes Ian Urbina in the New Yorker . Urbina is referring to China's massive fleet of fishing vessels that ply the...
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