Midweek Seafood News Roundup

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Grimsby seafood firm Five Star Fish in administration
BBC News
Other sections of its parent company British Seafood went into administration last month. Matt Smith, from Deloitte, said: "We believe that Five Star Fish ...
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Diversified Business Communications Selects Taptopia to Provide Its Official ...
CNNMoney.com (press release)
The show is North America's largest seafood event, featuring more than 800 exhibits, offering a vast array of seafood, seafood products, seafood services ...
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KVAL
Another company recalls Yaquina Bay oysters
KVAL
OM Seafood Company is issuing a product recall involving oyster meat and oysters in the shell harvested in Yaquina Bay, Newport, Oregon from February 1–24, ...
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NOAA and Gloucester Seafood Display Auction Settle Three Cases
NOAA
NOAA and Gloucester Fish Exchange, Inc. (owner of the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction) agreed late yesterday to settle three pending enforcement cases ...
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Some Wegmans seafood sauce is recalled
UPI.com
WASHINGTON, March 8 (UPI) -- The US Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of Wegmans-brand seafood sauce because of a labeling error. ...
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Tampabay.com
Festivals celebrate strawberries, seafood, swamp creatures and more
Tampabay.com
This weekend is ripe with festivals, particularly if you like strawberries, seafood and swamp creatures. Only in Florida. There should be a law stating you ...
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McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants Q4 net loss narrows
Trading Markets (press release)
McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants has reported a net loss of $16.1 million or $1.09 per share for the fourth quarter ended December 26, 2009, ...
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Chef of the Month: Jose Velez of Rod's Steak & Seafood Grille, Morris Twp.
Dailyrecord.com
... school in Salt Lake City, Utah, that Jose Velez, now the executive chef at Rod's Steak & Seafood Grille in Morris Township, was first inspired to cook. ...
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Fighting Postpartum Depression with Seafood
Food Product Design
BERGEN, Norway—Researchers at the National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) are kicking off a study to investigate whether a higher ...
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Seafood auction settles case with NOAA
Wicked Local Gloucester
By Terry Weber/Correspondent NOAA and the Gloucester Seafood Display Auction (GSDA) agreed on Tuesday to settle three pending enforcement cases. ...
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