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The seafood industry is firing back against recently published articles and books that are taking shots at the farmed salmon industry. A recently published book, Salmon Wars, the Dark Underbelly of our Favorite Fish, has been gaining attention from some media outlets, including Bloomberg, which listed it among the 10 best summer books shedding light on “today’s most-pressing issues.” Written by Pulitzer Price-winning journalist Douglas Frantz and his wife – accomplished investigative journalist Catherine Collins – the book purports to expose the “dark underbelly of our favorite fish.” A recently published counterpoint in Saving Seafood, however, rebutted a number of…

The National Marine Fisheries Service and NOAA Fisheries announced proposed changes to vessel speed regulations on Friday, 29 July, with the goal of protecting the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale. The new restrictions will expand current mandatory seasonal speed restrictions, which limits vessels to 10 knots in designated areas of the ocean, and would extend the speed limits to vessels measuring 35 to 65 feet in length. “These two efforts are part of our North Atlantic Right Whale Road to Recovery, a strategy that encapsulates all of our ongoing work across the agency and in collaboration with our partners…