Magister Squid Past Events

  • Alaska’s Magister Squid Attracts People at Juneau Maritime Festival

    A beautiful day brought hundreds of people out to Juneau’s annual Maritime Festival, held on the city’s downtown Merchant’s Warf.

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  • Taste Tested In Japan

    Recently our Magister Squid was given to a Master Fugu chef in Yamagata, Japan, to prepare as sashimi.

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Squid in the News

New Yorker - "The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat". Last evening the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Juneau Douglas Advisory Committee, representing commercial, sport (charter and personal use), and non-consumptive fishery interests in the J

New Yorker - "The Crimes Behind the Seafood You Eat".

Last evening the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Juneau Douglas Advisory Committee, representing commercial, sport (charter and personal use), and non-consumptive fishery interests in the Juneau area unanimously passed a proposal

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Bombshell Outlaw Ocean report finds evidence of seafood processed by forced labor in US supply chain Seafood Source - Seafood processed by Uyghur forced labor in China has entered U.S. supply chains, according to an Outlaw Ocean report published

Bombshell Outlaw Ocean report finds evidence of seafood processed by forced labor in US supply chain

Seafood Source - Seafood processed by Uyghur forced labor in China has entered U.S. supply chains, according to an Outlaw Ocean report published in The New Yorker magazine.

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US Senator Tom Cotton introduces bill to ban Chinese seafood imports The bill is a response to an Ocean Outlaw Project report alleging that several Chinese seafood processors used Uyghur labor . Read more

US Senator Tom Cotton introduces bill to ban Chinese seafood imports

The bill is a response to an Ocean Outlaw Project report alleging that several Chinese seafood processors used Uyghur labor .

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Pod Cast - "CATCH" follow squid from sea to table The CATCH. Each episode offers behind-the-scenes look at the current state of global fishing by tracking squid - from the waters off the coast of Peru, to the processing plants, all the way to the

Pod Cast - "CATCH" follow squid from sea to table

The CATCH. Each episode offers behind-the-scenes look at the current state of global fishing by tracking squid - from the waters off the coast of Peru, to the processing plants, all the way to the restaurants, and finally - your plate.

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Squid games on the high seas as U.S. Coast Guard monitors Chinese fishing vessels According to Oceana, the U.S. has imported almost $700 billion worth of squid from China and Hong Kong in the past five years. Read more

Squid games on the high seas as U.S. Coast Guard monitors Chinese fishing vessels

According to Oceana, the U.S. has imported almost $700 billion worth of squid from China and Hong Kong in the past five years.

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Juneau Douglas Fish and Game Advisory Committee Considers New Squid Fishery for Southeast Alaska Last evening the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Juneau Douglas Advisory Committee, representing commercial, sport (charter and personal use), and

Juneau Douglas Fish and Game Advisory Committee Considers New Squid Fishery for Southeast Alaska

Last evening the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Juneau Douglas Advisory Committee, representing commercial, sport (charter and personal use), and non-consumptive fishery interests in the Juneau area unanimously passed a proposal

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Climate change heavily affecting fish stocks in Japan, resulting in historically low catch totals Japanese catch totals of important seafood species have fallen dramatically, and climate change is the suspected cause, according to new reports, wit

Climate change heavily affecting fish stocks in Japan, resulting in historically low catch totals

Japanese catch totals of important seafood species have fallen dramatically, and climate change is the suspected cause, according to new reports, with catches of Japanese flying squid and Pacific saury suffering in recent years compared to historical averages.

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