In August, frozen Russian seafood mysteriously began moving through a New Brunswick facility that is at the heart of a legal dispute between American Seafoods and the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency -- something not seen in at least 10 years, according to the Customs agency.
US pollock suppliers and logistics firms ensnarled in a Jones Act dispute with US Customs stopped shipping Alaska seafood from the Kloosterboer Bayside facility in Canada on Aug. 20 after they began receiving fines for alleged violations of the Jones Act.
