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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada-based Tradex Seafoods has achieved a longtime goal of sourcing 100 percent of its seafood products from sustainable sources.
The company s goal, set four years ago, was to purchase only products certified by the Marine Stewardship Council, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch, Ocean Wise, or FishChoice for its SINBAD retail line and custom-packed products sold through the company’s private-label line.
Tradex President and CEO Rob Reierson told SeafoodSource that reaching a perfect score was a massive, labor-intensive undertaking. It meant tracking every pound of seafood – a herculean task for a company that moves around 40 million pounds of frozen products annually.
Edited By MARY KAUFFMAN - Today, Senator Bill Wielechowski (D-Anchorage) introduced Senate Joint Resolution 12, joining others in urging the United States Congress to remove the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset clauses from the United States Social Security Act.
Both provisions affect the calculation of the Social Security benefits for individuals who also receive a state pension or one from a political subdivision. The Windfall Elimination Provision applies to direct public employees while the Government Pension Offset reduces benefits of spouses and survivors who are public employees – both of which cut benefits up to hundreds of dollars per month.
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It s back to the future for Alaska canned salmon as more Americans choose it for its health benefits and as an easy-to-use ingredient for sandwiches, salads and more.
Salmon canning in Alaska started in the 1870s and by the early 20th century, it was the state s largest industry, generating 80% of the territorial tax revenues. Its position then in the state economy is one that oil enjoys today.
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed record sales for the pantry shelf product and canned salmon sales soared by 30.3% in 2020 to $286 million. Suddenly, there was double the demand for an item that s normally very predictable, said John Daly, manager of domestic canned sales for OBI Seafoods, Alaska s largest producer of canned pink and sockeye salmon at nine plants across the state. It s not like the seafood counter at grocery stores. The canned fish business is the grocery business. It s a center store aisle
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