Madelyn Kearns

Madelyn Kearns

Editor

Madelyn Kearns is the Portland, Maine-based editor of SeafoodSource. Before diving into seafood writing, editing, and infographic-designing, she was the associate editor for an online publication geared toward small to mid-sized practice physicians, Medical Practice Insider. Maddie is a graduate of the University of Maine, where she served as a columnist and the opinion editor for the university's paper, The Maine Campus, and won a Grady Award in Creative Writing for her poetry.

Published on
September 24, 2020

Stavis Seafoods is featured in The Top 25: Sustainability & Conservation list, published by SeafoodSource on 24 September, 2020.

SeafoodSource: What kind of trends have informed Stavis Seafoods’ latest sustainability/conservation efforts?

Stavis Seafoods: We are seeing three specific trends that have informed some of our recent efforts regarding sustainability. The first is a move by the industry towards better and

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September 24, 2020

Cooke Inc. is featured in The Top 25: Sustainability & Conservation list, published by SeafoodSource on 24 September, 2020. Cooke Vice President of Public Relations Joel Richardson speaks here on behalf of the company.

SeafoodSource: What kind of trends have informed Cooke’s latest sustainability/conservation efforts?

Richardson: ESG REPORTING: We recognize that a rapidly growing proportion of consumers are driving

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September 24, 2020

Seattle Fish Co. is featured in The Top 25: Sustainability & Conservation list, published by SeafoodSource on 24 September, 2020.

SeafoodSource: What kind of trends have informed ​Seattle Fish Co.’s ​latest sustainability/conservation efforts?

​Seattle Fish: Sustainability and “going green” has certainly become more popular in recent years, and while we’re glad to see more companies doing business

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September 24, 2020

Organic Ocean is featured in The Top 25: Sustainability & Conservation list, published by SeafoodSource on 24 September, 2020.

SeafoodSource: What kind of trends have informed Organic Ocean’s latest sustainability/conservation efforts?

Organic Ocean: Since it was established (in 2008), Organic Ocean has focused on all three areas of sustainability – environmental, social, and economic – on the basis that it

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Published on
September 24, 2020

There’s no way around it – 2020 so far has been a year wrought with difficult news and stark changes. A global pandemic has kept most of us apart. It’s made the future harder to imagine. Nevertheless, much of the seafood industry persists in its efforts to stay the course, feeding communities in a time of great need. We hope this year’s Top 25 list similarly nourishes your news feed with something good.

From 1999 to 2018,

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Published on
September 24, 2020

Santa Monica Seafood is featured in The Top 25: Sustainability & Conservation list, published by SeafoodSource on 24 September, 2020.

SeafoodSource: What kind of trends have informed Santa Monica Seafood’s latest sustainability/conservation efforts?

Santa Monica: Santa Monica Seafood sustainability/conservation efforts are constantly evolving to address changing consumer concerns. IUU and unacceptable labor practices are

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September 23, 2020

Certain Manila clam products are being recalled by Evergreen International Foodstuffs Ltd. after Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) test results revealed the presence of a marine biotoxin known to cause paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) …

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Published on
September 22, 2020

Clean Seas Seafood Limited, a Royal Park, South Australia, Australia-based producer of yellowtail kingfish, is bidding David Head, its CEO of almost five years, farewell as it continues to struggle amid through the global COVID-19

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Published on
September 18, 2020

A new study presents “compelling evidence” for consuming more of omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA – nutrients that seafood possesses rich quantities of – for cardiovascular prevention.

The meta-analysis, considered to be the “most comprehensive analysis of the role of omega-3 dosage on cardiovascular prevention to date,” was published in the most recent issue of in Mayo Clinic Proceedings and involves an

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Published on
September 16, 2020

Norway’s Lerøy Seafood Group has contracted with U.K.-based IQF equipment developer Starfrost to incorporate a new freezing system into its operations: the Helix spiral freezer.

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