Daily recap: Steelhead salmon farm founder evicts Blue Star Foods; Week 28’s shrimp roundup

Here's?a recap of the top daily seafood stories from Thursday, July 9:

• Steelhead salmon farm founder-turned-landlord Atkinson serves Blue Star Foods with eviction notice

Steve Atkinson, the founder and former owner of steelhead salmon farmer Taste of BC Aquafarms, has ordered Blue Star Foods, the current owner, out of his recirculating aquaculture system facility in the Canadian province of British Columbia.?

• Week 28 farm-gate shrimp prices in China's Jiangsu fall below cost of imports from Ecuador

Shrimp farm-gate prices in India have risen in week 28 (July 8-14) but fell again in Jiangsu, China, reaching a new record low and below the cost of imports from Ecuador. Meanwhile, prices are flat in Ecuador and Vietnam, but rising in Indonesia, according to?price data tracked by?Undercurrent News.

• American Seafoods CEO joins US senators' call for Russia to be removed from MSC, hit with more sanctions

The CEO of the largest US at-sea pollock processor is backing a push from a handful of US senators to get more restrictions on the flow of Russian seafood globally, including an end to the latter's Marine Stewardship Council-approved status.

• Spanish cannery, now retailer-owned, leases rival's plant after food fraud, bankruptcy case

Spanish cannery Congelados y Pescados Plaza Chica, which entered bankruptcy proceedings earlier this year after it was implicated in a food fraud case, has ceased operations and rented out one of its two facilities, according to industry sources.

• US shrimp imports climbing again, though prices remain low

US shrimp imports began climbing again in May, even in spite of both countervailing and antidumping duties being levied against some of the biggest source nations.

• Norwegian auction values for large H&G cod, haddock jump to new records

Auction prices for Norwegian headed and gutted frozen cod, haddock and saithe have all climbed again in the first week of July, returning to and, in some cases, surpassing the record price peak seen in May.

• UN fisheries panel declares aquaculture key to food security

Aquaculture as a solution to food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty is a key focus at the 36th Committee on Fisheries session of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations meeting taking place in Rome, Italy, this week.?