Throughout the year, WorldCatch will present our members with exclusive white papers on a range of seafood-related issues. Feel free to copy and distribute these white papers. Today, environmental NGOs have hundreds of millions of dollars and growing governmental and media clout. The seafood industry can no longer ignore the power of these groups to influence national and international policy development. The time has come for a new retail seafood paradigm.
Industry needs it and consumers want it.
While full-service seafood departments will always be a part of some supermarket chains, the numbers are declining and will continue to do so. WorldCatch The 2001 American red snapper fishery in Gulf of Mexico federal waters will open for a fifth time this spring at noon, local time, on June 1.