Trident Opens East Coast Seafood Product R&D, Processing Facility in Carrollton, GA
Trident Seafoods has opened its $40 million seafood research and development and value-added seafood facility in Carrollton, Georgia. The plant includes an 88,000 sq/ft of manufacturing floor overlooked by 18,000 sq/ft of office space and another 20,000 sq/ft of support area. In addition to the production and R & D facilities, the plant includes a distribution center with 67,000 sq/ft of cold storage space. “Purchasing, modernizing and expanding the existing processing plant in Carrollton to accommodate our needs was a good fit for us, and we have faith that it will be a good fit for Carrollton,” said Trident’s CEO Joe Bundrant. “We want to grow our business in the Eastern U.S. and Carrollton is situated close to our customers.
Washington State Senator Maria Cantwell has proposed new legislation that would fund investments for adaptation and mitigation research to understand how to make coastal economies more resilient to the threat of ocean acidification. The bill would also a national ocean acidification monitoring strategy to prioritize investments in ocean acidification sensors to areas that need it most. “This bill ensures that NOAA is making the appropriate investments in research, and monitoring the ongoing impact of this threat to our coastal economies,” Cantwell said.
In other news Mexico’s shrimp farmers have asked the government to ban shrimp imports from Honduran shrimp farms in Choluteca and Valle out of EMS concerns. The ban would keep an estimated 15 million pounds from entering the Mexican market. Honduran officials said above-average shrimp mortalities in those farms were due to lack of rainfall, not EMS.
Finally, the Boston Fish Pier will host the fourth annual Boston Seafood Festival this Sunday August 2. The event is organized by the Boston Fisheries Foundation and is expected to draw between 10,000 and 15,000 attendees. The event features local seafood vendors and cooks-offs along other industry-related events. This year’s festival will also host three distinct fishery discussion panels with speakers from SMAST, NOAA, and local New England fishery managers and NGO groups. Discussions will focus on climate change and stock assessments in the Gulf of Maine along with at-sea monitoring regulations.
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