Daily recap: Live from Vietnam, Tokyo; Pink salmon drag down Alaska harvest

Here's?a recap of the top daily seafood stories from Wednesday, Aug. 21:?

• Vietfish 2024: Retailer welfare policies shaping Vietnam suppliers' investments

Undercurrent News?is reporting live from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for the Vietfish trade show, held Aug. 21-23, 2024.

• Tokyo 2024: Tokyo Seafoods secures 350t of wild Andalusian bluefin tuna

Undercurrent is live at the 26th edition of the Japan International Seafood and Technology Expo (JISTE), taking place at Tokyo Big Sight in Koto Ward, Tokyo, from Aug. 21 to 23.

• Weak pink numbers drag down Alaska salmon harvest

Even by even-year standards, it's been a pretty poor year for harvests of pink salmon in the US state of Alaska.

• Winter wounds dampen strong growth, cost outlook in Mowi's Q2

Winter wound issues in Norway cast a cloud over an otherwise successful quarter for biomass growth and cost reduction at Mowi, the world's largest salmon producer by volume, as it aims to harvest a milestone 500,000 metric tons this year.

• Lund's among US harvesters relieved by handling of New Jersey bridge closure

The Middle Thorofare Bridge that connects the cities of Cape May to Wildwood Crest and Diamond Beach in the US state of New Jersey is expected to be closed for several weeks due to the failure of a motor used to open the drawbridge, which is bad news for motorists.?

• Alaska crabber group's leader named to North Pacific regulatory panel

Crabbers in the US state of Alaska haven't been too thrilled about the appointments recently made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, but they like this one.