NASDA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Letter Dear Prime Minister: Our members represent a broad array of the agricultural supply chain that relies on freight rail transportation from the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and CPKC, and we write to express concerns regarding a potential significant disruption to the North American supply chains.

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Modern Farmer

JUNE 21, 2024

A new report from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, has found that more fish were farmed worldwide in 2022 than harvested from the wild, an apparent first. The organization found that global production from both aquaculture and fisheries reached a new high — 223.3 Of that, 185.4 metric tons.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 1, 2024

But the discrepancy is by design, says Joshua Stoll, associate professor at the University of Maine and founder of Local Catch Network , a hub of seafood harvesters, businesses, researchers, and organizers that supports the growth of community-based seafood. A healthier system more reflective of the diversity of U.S. Alaska drives the bus.

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Civil Eats

APRIL 17, 2024

Farinella’s whistleblower account coincides with a three-year investigation, “ Hidden Harvest ,” published in March by the Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL), exposing the human rights abuses rampant across India’s shrimp sector. wild shrimp harvesters have been calling to curb imported shrimp, which undermines their shrinking industry.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The small, invasive shore crabs are easy to find—they like to hang out in tidal marshes, alongside rocky shores, and on sand flats, but finding fishermen and seafood harvesters willing to catch the crabs for human consumption is a challenge. “The demand is huge; the problem is a consistent supply,” says Hale.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Seaweed naturally absorbs carbon as it grows, but unless it is harvested, it decomposes and releases carbon back. The company is also developing a harvesting machine that will reap the seaweed “using minimum cost and time.” She eventually began working directly with farmers in 2023, but it was too little, too late.

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Modern Farmer

JANUARY 3, 2024

Then, in 2015, they were mandated to put more traps on each buoy to reduce the number of end lines, or individual points of harvest, in the water. Making these changes was costly and time-consuming for lobster harvesters. By 2020, Maine lobsterers had to ensure their gear was labeled in case of a whale entanglement.

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