Red Lobster, Chicken of the Sea Will No Longer Buy Spiny Lobsters from Honduras' Dive Fishery  Red Lobster, Chicken of the Sea, Harbor Seafood, Netuno USA and Interamerican Trading Product will no longer buy Honduran spiny lobsters harvested by scuba divers. The companies sent a letter to Honduran Agricultural authorities late last week notifying them that they would no longer buy spiny lobster from the dive fishery because of the well-reported dangers surrounding the practice. As of March 1 Honduran authorities enacted a four-month ban on spiny lobster fishing in the Caribbean Sea that they say will give fishery regulators time to bring the spiny lobster fishery under a regionally accepted plan. The New England Fisheries Summit was held yesterday at the University of Massachusetts and called for collaboration among fishermen and scientists to address sharply lower catches coming out of the Gulf of Maine. One suggestion proposed during the Summit was having fishermen share their fishing trip data with scientists to use in their research. In other news the defendants in a lawsuit filed by Quinlan Brothers claim they did not steal secrets from the company. Quinlan’s lawsuit accuses former employees Brian and Shelley Collier and Cold North Seafoods of stealing trade secrets about Quinlan’s automatic crab butchering machine. Meanwhile, the stronger US Dollar helped mitigate last year’s decline in shrimp prices for some US suppliers. The analysis looks at the US Shrimp market converted into the Indian Rupee and Indonesian Rupiah. The trend shows that as the Dollar strengthened the decline in shrimp prices was less dramatic in foreign dollars. Finally, the 2015 Seafood Expo North America has booked over 200,000 square feet of floor space for over 1,100 exhibitors. These are record figures for the show, which kicks off March 15th. Reports have hinted that many companies will have bigger booths this year. If you have upgraded your booth for the expo, drop us a line and we will write about it.