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Study: Fishermen would make more money if they fished less

A new study by researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the University of Washington demonstrates that adopting “rights-based fishery management” (RBFM) would not only help fish populations recover, but would mean more money for fishermen, reports The Christian Science Monitor.

In Granite State and beyond, hard choices on Vermont GMO-label law

Mary McDonald, co-owner of a three-employee sauce-making company in New Hampshire, says she'll put hundreds of hours into researching ingredients in order to comply with the GMO food-labeling law that takes effect in neighboring Vermont on July 1.

Seafood, vegetables and fruit lead list of rejected food imports

A USDA analysis of FDA food inspections over a 15-year period found that seafood, vegetables and fruits are rejected more than anything else.

Snowpack survey to find California short of water despite storms

California Gov. Jerry Brown stood on dry ground at the Phillips Station snow-measuring outpost in the Sierra Nevada mountains last April 1 and ordered a 25-percent reduction in urban water use. When the state Department of Water Resources conducts a snow survey on Wednesday at Phillips Station, 90 miles east of Sacramento, the snowpack will be several feet deep.

A checkup on EPA efforts to control super weeds

The EPA inspector general says it will assess the agency's "management and oversight of [weed] resistance issues related to herbicide-tolerant genetically engineered crops."

USDA pledges $41 million to clean up Lake Erie

The USDA will invest $41 million over three years to clean up the Western Lake Erie Basin, which supplies water to farmers in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced this week.

For the U.S. palate, bacon-flavored seaweed

The next kale could be an edible seaweed called dulse "that is highly nutritious and, when cooked, has a savory flavor that some describe as tasting like bacon," says the Salem Statesman Journal.

Vilsack: mandatory disclosure is ‘the only way’ to resolve GMO labeling

With the Senate at an impasse over GMO-food labeling, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack encouraged senators to "figure out a way to reach common ground."

Dairy farmers rely less on federal program

The 2014 farm law created a new, insurance-style support program for dairy farmers, based on the difference between milk prices and the cost of feed for milk cows, a so-called margin protection program.

Climate change may spread marine diseases northward

Rising water temperatures in the world's oceans can expand the range of marine diseases into new regions, says researcher Charlotte Eve Davies at The Conservation website.

A little less corn, a bit more soybeans — it still means mammoth crops

The government releases two important reports this week for forecasting U.S. crop production and supplies for the growing season that is just beginning.

Forecast: Minimal rise in grocery prices this year

Lower beef, pork and poultry prices will bring the fifth year in a row of lower-than-average increases in grocery prices, says the monthly Food Price Outlook.

Mad cow case confirmed in France, first in five years

The French agriculture ministry confirmed mad cow disease in a cow in the Ardennes region, the first case in the country since 2011 and the third in Europe since 2015, reports Deutsche Welle.

Food industry coalition ‘fracturing,’ says GMO labeling leader

With five major U.S. food companies saying they will label their products for GMO ingredients, Gary Ruskin, the co-director of U.S. Right to Know, says the food-industry coalition against labeling "is fracturing."

Senate appropriator Moran may see challenge in Kansas

A Tea Party group in Kansas said it may encourage Milton Wolf to run in the Republican primary on Aug. 2 against first-term Sen. Jerry Moran, the chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees USDA and FDA funding.

Alaska salmon numbers forecast to fall 40 percent

The 2016 Alaska salmon harvest is expected to drop 40 percent from last year’s count, says Alaska Dispatch News, primarily due to a routine decline in pink salmon numbers that hits every two years.

Senate Judiciary chair asks for U.S. review of Syngenta-ChemChina deal

The Obama administration should examine the food-security implications of the proposed $43 billion purchase by state-owned ChemChina of Swiss-based Syngenta, one of the world's largest seed and agro-chemical companies, said the Senate Judiciary chairman and the Democratic leader of the Senate Agriculture Committee.

U.S. Northwest opens the door for Big Marijuana

Out-of-state investors have the green light from regulators in Oregon and Washington state to invest in the legal marijuana industry in the Pacific Northwest, making possible the emergence of Big Marijuana, says the Los Angeles Times.

Seed banks should do more for wild plants, says study

Seed banks aren’t doing enough to protect the wild relatives of our key food crops, says a new study out in the journal Nature Plants.

Netherlands says eat less meat – a lot less

The government-funded Netherlands Nutrition Center "is recommending people eat just two servings of meat a week, setting an explicit limit on meat consumption for the first time," says National Geographic.