Seafood Business articles from January 2001

Seafood Business archives from January 2001

PEOPLE.(hirings, promotions)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Darden Restaurants James Lawrence has been promoted to vice president of supply management for Darden Restaurants, owner and operator of the Red Lobster chain. Lawrence, who joined Darden in 1995, is responsible for all seafood-commodity,...

Kenny Bowers Executive chef, Rockfish Seafood Grill.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)(Interview)
January 1, 2001... New England native Kenny Bowers, 34, loves seafood and he loves the restaurant business. About 10 years ago, he settled in Dallas, where he saw a huge opportunity for a restaurant that served good seafood at a reasonable price. After starting...

See what's new on our Web site.(www.seafoodbusiness.com)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The next time you log onto the Internet, take a look at www.seafoodbusiness.com. We've updated our Web site and added two weekly highlights: the Person of the Week, featuring people who shape our industry, and Product of the Week, which alerts...

Trade lawyers should profit from new dumping law.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Hidden in this year's agriculture-spending measure is a new law requiring that all antidumping and countervailing duties collected after Oct. 1, 2000, be distributed to the companies that petitioned for them. In the past, these import duties,...

It's time to look beyond the commodity sell.(marketing seafood)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... For way too long, the seafood industry has depended on the "commodity sell" in the belief that volume will solve all its problems. Unfortunately, nearly everyone in the seafood industry has had the same idea. So we've been stuck competing in a...

Step by step.(co-branding A and W Restaurants Inc. and Long John Silver's Restaurants Inc.)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... The challenge Co-brand Long John Silver's and A&W so future co-brands could be launched with other concepts, giving parent company Yorkshire Global Restaurants a powerful growth vehicle. The obstacle Combining two established...

Meet the man who gave new meaning to `surf 'n turf'.(Mark Sievers)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... LJS veteran Mark Sievers heads A&W co-brand success Mark Sievers celebrates his 25th anniversary with quick-serve seafood chain Long John Silver's this year. Sievers joined the company when it was known as Jerrico, and he worked in the...

Heads up.(seafood industry news)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Foodservice slowdown? Restaurant sales are projected to increase again this year, but not as fast as in 2000. Technomic, a foodservice analyst in Chicago, predicts restaurant and bar sales will increase 3.2 percent in 2001, down slightly...

Farmers' markets sow seeds of growth.(farmers' markets sell seafood)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2001... Farmers' and public markets provide retail niche for seafood vendors Farmers' markets have been hailed as one of the best-kept secrets in America. They unite whole communities of shoppers who flock to both seasonal and year-round stands in...

Side dish.(seafood restaurants)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Yankee, go west Bradley Ogden, chef-owner of Lark Creek Inn and One Market in the San Francisco Bay area, just opened Yankee Pier in historic Larkspur, Calif., spotlighting fresh seafood from both coasts. A casual cafe "in the style of an...

Appetizers set the stage for the meal that follows.(restaurants discovering seafood options)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... And seafood is a main attraction in the popular "starters" category First, there are appetizers. And increasingly, those appetizers feature seafood. The reasons for this are legion. Today's sophisticated patrons want to share and sample...

Seen & heard.(Webvan Group, Albertson's Inc., Worldwide Retail Exchange)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Online buying The Worldwide Retail Exchange, an online business-to-business company serving retailers, last month added 11 new members to its site, including H.E. Butt Grocery and Giant Eagle. The exchange now has 53 retailers. The b-to-b...

The nose knows when your seafood isn't fresh.(sanitation guidelines)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Here's how to give your customers a positive sensory experience Good-looking fresh seafood may catch your customers' eye, but their noses are what make the final determination about whether to buy your fish. If they get a whiff of...

Eco-watch.(environmental effects on seafood industry)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Contaminated fishmeal Two scientific committees of the European Union have reported that fish oil and fishmeal are the most heavily contaminated feed materials. As a result of the report, the committees recommend reductions to dioxin...

EPA researches national standards for fish farms.(Environmental Protection Agency)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Aquaculturists fear costly new regulations could drive up product prices The Environmental Protection Agency is putting the aquaculture industry under a microscope. The scrutiny is welcomed by some aquaculturists, who feel the EPA's...

Tilapia.(popularity on rise)
January 1, 2001... Thanks to a surge in supplies of fresh fillets, the adaptable tofu of fish is popping up everywhere It's white, mild-tasting and available 52 weeks a year -- at an increasingly reasonable price. It's also incredibly versatile. You can...

Striped bass.(availability, demand, and cookery)
January 1, 2001... Whether wild or hybrid, striped bass occupies a special spot on menus across the country If you're looking for a fish worthy of top billing at an upscale restaurant but still want the comfort of consistent availability and quality and...

Deboners/peelers.(equipment sources)
January 1, 2001... Ever-growing demand for value-added seafood keeps equipment suppliers busy with fine tuning and upgrades When Brad Jenkins, manager of the Surprise Valley Trout Farm in Morganton, Ga., added a pinbone remover to the company's processing...

The skinner dilemma.(skinning equipment sources)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Basic skinning technology hasn't changed much over the years, but the range of sizes, prices and safety considerations can make purchasing a new skinning machine tricky. And the big question continues to be: handset or automatic? While...

Plenty of farmed salmon, little demand.(seafood supply and demand)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... A stagnant market during the holidays should give buyers the edge in January The farmed Atlantic salmon market typically levels off this month. Though it started to pick up by mid-December, demand wasn't fulfilling pre-holiday...

A resolution worth keeping.(participation in Kraft Foods Seafood Initiative)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... 'Tis the season to drag out the laundry list of New Year's resolutions that never get accomplished: lose 10 pounds, clean the basement and set the cruise control below 75 mph while commuting. This year, instead of setting unrealistic...

Alaska pollock buyers face uncertain market in coming year.(lawsuit means restrictions still in place)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Sen. Ted Stevens holds up federal budget to fight for reprieve Buyers face an upredictable Alaska pollock market due to a shifting set of rules triggered by a Greenpeace lawsuit claiming pollock fishing takes food from endangered Steller...

Ocean Trust debunks eco-guides.(seafood buying guides critiqued)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Seafood-buying recommendations called misleading and unscientific Ocean Trust this month will release a comprehensive review of three seafood-buying guides currently in circulation from eco-groups. Ocean Trust says these guides mislead...

N.C. crab processors merge.(Washington Crab, H.L. Stephenson)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Washington Crab teams with H.L. Stephenson Growing competition from overseas, declining domestic harvests and increasing production costs have forced two family-owned North Carolina blue-crab processors -- Washington Crab Co. and H.L....

@.com.(fish buying online)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... @agribuys.com has launched version 7.0 of its Web site. The upgrade includes new requisition capabilities to allow food buyers to consolidate orders across several stores and warehouses and to use a single request for quotes on multiple items...

Red Lobster spruces up its image, market by market.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The king of casual seafood restaurants overhauls Texas units Red Lobster is updating its image, one market at a time, and further expansion of its fresh fish program is a big part of the overhaul, "We will be the best in the...

Seafood data in a single source.(2000 Annual Report on the United States Seafood Industry)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... H. M. Johnson & Associates, an Oregon-based seafood research and consulting company, recently issued the latest edition of its big-picture look at the industry, the "2000 Annual Report on the United States Seafood Industry." In compiling this...

Preserve impacts fisheries.(lobster, bottomfishing restricted due to reef preserve)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Industry opposes Clinton's reef plan Hawaii's bottomfish and lobster industries fear their fisheries could be devastated by President Clinton's plan to protect the coral reefs and wildlife off north-chain's western Hawaii. On Dec. 4,...

Biz briefs ...(News Briefs)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Capt. Anderson's Restaurant, Palm City Beach, Fla., received the annual Southern Living Reader's Choice award for the fourth time... SYSCO is constructing a 266,000 square-foot facility outside of Columbia, S.C., which is expected to open in...

Holiday campaign attempts to put brakes on caviar imports.(environmentalist discourage caviar buying)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Consumers urged to buy less caviar and avoid beluga sturgeon Environmental groups launched a campaign during the holiday season urging consumers to buy less caviar and specifically to avoid beluga caviar. Despite the campaign, vendors and...

New seafood promo takes health angle.(National Seafood Educators)(American Heart Association)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... "Seafood Twice a Week" promotes omega-3 content Next month the AHA and National Seafood Educators will launch "Seafood Twice a Week," a national seafood and health campaign modeled after the produce industry's "Five a Day" program, says...

Miami icon opens second Joe's.(Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Famous Joe's Stone Crab seafood restaurant opens in Chicago A little bit of the Sunshine State has been uprooted and taken up residence in Chicago. Seafood restaurant icon Joe's Stone Crab opened its first restaurant outside of Miami in...

IN MY KITCHEN.(Sel de la Terre )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Restaurant concept: Contemporary French bistro Seafood sales: 25 to 75 percent of total mix, depending on menu selection (menu changes several times a week) Finfish on the menu: Dayboat monkfish, cod, salmon, tuna, swordfish, dayboat...

Blount is charting a new course.(Blount Seafood Corp.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Clam products will remain a big part of the family business Blount Seafoods has a new president who plans to guide the family-owned business into new territory. E Nelson "Todd" Blount II, who replaces George R. Richardson, is the fifth...

Marketers scramble for holiday shrimp.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The best buys of the season are Gulf peeled, tail-on cooked and Canadian pinks While shrimp prices generally have come down, the market has by no means collapsed. Domestic shrimp prices have climbed but the cost of imports has fallen. ...

Pollock, Pacific cod fisheries in limbo.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... However, frozen Atlantic cod supplies are keeping up with demand Skepticism surrounding Alaska's pollock and Pacific cod fisheries could prompt buyers, anticipating a supply shortage, to be more active in the post-holiday market. Prices...

Alaska's opilio harvest set for Jan. 15.(king crab fisheries)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Reports of possible closures in Russia's king-crab fishery threaten prices The Bering Sea snow-crab fishery is set to open Jan. 15, unless poor weather delays the start, as it did in 2000. The 27.3-million-pound quota, down slightly from...

Snapper market is hot.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Domestic Gulf fishery will open Feb. 1 Look for prices of imported snapper to drop when the domestic Gulf of Mexico fishery resumes on Feb. 1 -- unless it resembles last month's opening. In that opening, strong demand kept prices firm...

WorldCatch, Gofish cut staff.
January 1, 2001... Online seafood business-to-business exchanges WorldCatch and Gofish.com laid off employees last month in an attempt to meet profitability deadlines. Gofish cut 20 workers in mid-December. The majority of the cuts were made to the sales and...

ContiSea, Fjord Seafood merge.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... ContiSea, parent company of Atlantic Salmon of Maine and Ducktrap River Fish Farm, has agreed to merge with Fjord Seafood. Fjord, based in Oslo, Norway, is one of the world's largest producers and suppliers of salmon and salmon products. ...

Facts & figures.(nutritional aspects of seafood)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
January 1, 2001... 85 Average number of calories in a 3-ounce cooked portion of fish. 50-60 Percentage of daily adult protein in a single serving of seafood. 2.5 Total percentage of fat in many finfish and almost all shellfish. 100 ...

Seafood supply in jeopardy?(analysis)
January 1, 2001... NMFS's wrangling impacts West Coast groundish and other species This is an era of fisheries management unlike any seen before: conducted in part by judges and overseen by an overwhelmed federal agency struggling to cope with a changing...

Produce b-to-b buys Seafood.com.(TradingProduce.com)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Purchase allows Silicon Valley company to extend its seafood content TradingProduce.com, an online business-to-business perishables exchange, last month acquired Seafood.com to increase the number of seafood suppliers for its network of...

Pacific Seafood and Trident buy Depoe Bay Fish.(Pacific Seafood Group, Trident Seafood Corp., Depoe Bay Fish Co.)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Consolidation trend continues in West Coast processing Depoe Bay Fish Co., a family-owned West Coast processor and wholesaler, sold its assets to Pacific Seafood Group and Trident Seafoods Corp. in December. Jerry Bates, Depoe Bay...

Thai Union buys Chicken of the Sea.(Thai Union International INc., Chicken of the Sea International)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Thai Union International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thai Union Frozen Products of Bangkok, Thailand, acquired 100 percent control of Chicken of the Sea in December. TUF paid $38.5 million for the remaining 50 percent share held by...