August -- a month of beaches and ice-cream on one side of the world and log fires and gloves on the other -- and the seafood news was as varied, with commentary, salmon worms, shrimp disease, tariffs and alternative feed ingredients sharing the lion's share of the reads on IntraFish last month.

Correspondent John Evans gave a fascinating insight into US restaurant giant Red Lobster's shifting focus on the back of news the company was overseeing a shake up to its top procurement team and Reporter Nina Unlay asked if Thai Union's $575 million investment in the company might finally pay off.

Editorial Director Drew Cherry's column " Salmon Farming is too big to fail" brought controversy to the IntraFish social media pages as did his column on the removal of his wedding ring (I wonder if his wife knows) and Executive Editor John Fiorillo's on the failings of the US aquaculture industry.

Politically speaking, the IntraFish pages were on fire last month, with Correspondent John Evans's revealing guide to Brexit as well as his brilliant insight into the investigation of Brazil's soy farmers by the world's biggest feed and aquaculture companies, for their possible role in the horrific Amazonian fires.

Feed was a focal point of the month, with Reporter Demi Korban asking if feed suppliers can meet land-based demand and several of the IntraFish team talking to ingredient suppliers including the corn and insect sectors.

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It was quarterly financials across many parts of the sector, with a mixed bag of rises and falls across the industry. To help give context, Reporter Demi Korban rounded up the world's most valuable salmon farmers, with some interesting graphics.

Another round-up, John Evans gave you the industry's biggest executives moves to date, reflecting busy times in the careers of seafood's A-listers.

In Chile, the Nova Austral case rumbles on, with the news the company has not complied with authorities' investigations, and more bad news in the form of a new law that could eliminate 50 percent of Magallanes's salmon farming licences. As the Cermaq Chile managing director told Senior Reporter Lola Navarro: "There is a lot of rethinking to do."

In shrimp, disease -- as is often the case -- gripped the headlines with Senior Reporter Lola Navarro's story that Indian shrimp farmers were clueless as a new disease spread, but we also had interesting insight from Reporter Rachel Sapin over in Seattle on the persistent issue of nematodes in the wild salmon industry as well as how seafood giant Mowi is dealing with sea lice in its Canadian operations.

Along with more tariff to-ing and fro-ing, an oncoming hurricane bound for the US salmon market, several new offshore and land-based developments and much much more, this was the month in seafood news.