Urner Barry and Seafood News editor Michael Ramsingh talks about the implications of a higher than expected snow crab quota in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Meanwhile, whole salmon from Europe is flooding the US market and cutting into Canada’s once dominate share of the volume. Plus, the Seafood Expo Global trade show in Brussels, Belgium is underway and we talk about how this show could feel like “A Tale of Two Cities” depending on if you are Canadian or American. Presented by Urner Barry’s Seafood Import Workshop in Miami.

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The Seafood News Podcast returns from a brief hiatus. In this episode Urner Barry and Seafood News Editor Michael Ramsingh talks about record shrimp import volumes and India’s significance to the market. Meanwhile, we discuss how snow crab prices are smashing all sorts of records before the Boston Seafood Show in March. Also, learn about some of the new products and events Urner Barry’s seafood department has coming down the pipeline for 2017.

In our first show on the New Year, Urner Barry and Seafoodnews.com Editor Michael Ramsingh is back in as host of the Seafood News Podcast and reports on the decision by West Coast crab fishermen to go on strike. Plus, Russia posts its highest salmon harvest in two decades; Canadian lobster exports continue to flow to China ahead of the Chinese New Year; and Red Lobster features Wild Caught Red Shrimp in its Big Shrimp Festival Promotion.

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In this week's episode the Seafood News Roundup Show, Production Editor Michael Ramsingh stops in to talk about how this year's spike in FDA refusals and a poor fishing season are setting up mahi to disappear from the market in 2017. Plus, Oregon finally gets Dungeness fishing underway; the lobster industry continues to puzzle participants; Iceland's fishermen go back on strike and Thailand issues its shrimp production forecast for 2017.

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Michael is on the show once more to recap the markets for shrimp and dungeness crab, as well as other fishing seasons that are just getting underway. With an endless maze of catch quotas, regulations and market trends to navigate, he's got the story.

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