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Cliff White

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Cliff White is the executive editor of SeafoodSource.com.

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Blue Harvest Fisheries purchased the Blue Water in 2015 as part of its effort to build a fleet of 15 scallop vessels. Thy were all sold off for $100 million months before the company's Sept. 8 bankruptcy filing. Blue Harvest Fisheries photo.

Blue Harvest creditors likely to get wiped out by company’s bankruptcy

Dungeness crab pots stack on the boat. Doug Stewart photo

Pacific Seafood faces anticompetitive lawsuit over Dungeness crab market

A marine sanctuary proposed by the Aleut Community of St. Paul tribal government would encompass 53,000 square miles around the Pribilof Islands.

As tanner crab season ends, Bering Sea sanctuary proposal incites opposition

A fire broke out early April 8 on the catcher-processor Kodiak Enterprise docked in Tacoma, Wash. South King Fire and Rescue photo.

Shelter order lifted after Kodiak Enterprise fire in Tacoma

Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America 2022. Diversified Communications photo.

Seafood Expo North America has increased 25 percent for 2023

Fishermen's Finest has lost an appeal of fishing limits imposed as a condition for a Jones Act waiver on its vessel America's Finest. Jeff Pond@JPImages

Fishermen’s Finest loses court appeal on fishing limits

Wrangell, Alaska. Brian Arundel photo.

Trident reopening processing plant in Wrangell Alaska

Fresh catch from the Maine lobster boat Ivy Jean in Portland, Maine. Doug Stewart photo.

More changes, challenges for Maine lobster fleet

W.E. Acres Crabmeal suffered a catastrophic fire on Friday, 3 February 2023. Photo Johnny Hanlan.

New Brunswick seafood processing plant total loss after fire

A Bering Sea crew hauls opilio pots. ASMI/Chris Miller photo

Disaster aid for Alaska crab, salmon fisheries in spending bill