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International Boston Seafood Show

The International Boston Seafood Show, co-located with Seafood Processing America, is North America’s largest seafood exhibition, attracting close to 18,000 seafood professionals.

• Seafood shines during holiday weekendU.S. retailers look forward to a big sales boost due to the three-day Labor Day weekend, the country’s unofficial end to summer. Alaska coho salmon, king crab and Gulf shrimp are among the seafood items they’re advertising.
• U.S. seafood consumption drops in 2009U.S. per-capita seafood consumption totaled 15.8 pounds last year, according to figures the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released on Friday. That’s down from 16 pounds in 2008 and the lowest amount since 2002’s 15.6 pounds.
• FAO: Fish feed costs to remain highCosts for the key ingredients in fish feed, which are closely linked to global commodity and energy prices, have increased as much as 50 percent in recent years, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, which on Friday called a special meeting of policymakers on 24 September to discuss escalating food prices.
• Austevoll unloads Epax to new joint ventureAker BioMarine ASA on Thursday announced that through a partnership with Lindsey Goldberg LLC it acquired a 100 percent interest in fish-oil supplement manufacturer Epax Holding AS from Austevoll Seafood ASA for NOK 561 million (USD 91.9 million, EUR 71.4 million). The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year.
• Nutritionists set sights on omega-3 benefitsAs kids we are taught that eating carrots leads to better vision. But in future years we could be telling our children the same thing about seafood. Among the many health benefits of seafood consumption, one presently being researched is age-related macular degeneration (AMD). A leading cause of blindness in the elderly — particularly among women — AMD is associated with a decrease in the optical density of the macular pigment of the eye.
• Editor’s picks: Suit, sushi and supplyTopping this week’s SeafoodSource coverage are the class-action lawsuit involving Pacific Seafood, sushi’s growing popularity at U.S. supermarket delis and the push to modernize France’s seafood supply chain.
• MSC: ‘Certified fisheries are sustainable’The Marine Stewardship Council on Thursday immediately responded to a report the 2 September issue of the journal Nature criticizing the sustainable seafood program.
• In Gulf of Thailand, artificial reefs take lifeThe much-publicized dumping of decommissioned military tanks into the Gulf of Thailand is only part of a long-term project to increase local fish stocks and prevent overfishing by creating artificial reefs in the Gulf of Thailand.
• Hit the booksTime-strapped journalists and agenda-driven NGOs are increasingly feeding consumers incomplete or inaccurate nuggets of information regarding the safety of seafood, whether it’s about the oil spill, methylmercury or PCBs. And it’s up to retailers to do something about it.
• AquaBounty fires back at coalitionAquaBounty Technologies, the company developing genetically modified salmon, this week fired back at a coalition that blasted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s potential approval of the salmon for human consumption.
• Scientists call for reform to MSCA collection of six scientists led by Daniel Pauly of the University of British Columbia’s Fisheries Centre are calling for major reform of the Marine Stewardship Council in a report published in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.
• UK offshore mussel farm granted leaseOffshore Shellfish Ltd. (OSL) on Thursday announced that it has been granted a lease by the Crown Estate to develop a offshore rope-grown mussel farm in Lyme Bay, Devon, on Great Britain’s southern coast.
• Asian Seafood Exposition is hereNext week’s inaugural Asian Seafood Exposition in Hong Kong features 101 exhibiting companies and organizations from 21 countries, including six country and regional pavilions.
• Young’s ‘shakes up’ category with premium lineYoung’s Seafood on Wednesday launched a range of premium frozen whitefish fillets that is says will “shake up” the category and transform consumer perception of frozen fish.
• Anchovy management plan questionedMembers of the Alliance of Liberal Democrats for Europe (ALDE) attended a meeting of the European Parliament Fisheries Committee (PECH) this week to further examine the draft report establishing a long-term plan for managing the Bay of Biscay anchovy stock.