Like most business sectors across the globe, the fishing industry is embracing low-impact and sustainable practices. As a result, shellfish farming of oysters, scallops and mussels has emerged as a significant aquaculture business on the coasts of many countries. This trend has encompassed Scotland and is being fueled in part by Aquamesh®, the most trusted wire mesh invented in New England.
Fishing News
Aquamesh® Withstands the Test of Time and Promotes Sustainable Shellfish Catching and Farming
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
Riverdale Mills CEO James Knott Receives Leadership Award
NORTHBRIDGE — Riverdale Mills Corp. CEO James M. Knott Jr. has received a Manufacturing Leadership Award in the Visionary Leadership category from the National Association of Manufacturers.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
One on One: Debra A. Krikorian, Chief Financial Officer of Riverdale Mills
NORTHBRIDGE — Riverdale Mills Corp. sits on a placid stretch of the Blackstone River and turns out products that can end up in significantly more rough-and-tumble environments.
The Christian Science Monitor
Trapped in Tariffs, Firms Tied to Lobster Industry Look for Way Out
Northbridge, Mass – A gritty gray mist rises from the ground floor of Riverdale Mills interrupted by explosions of color: yellow, reds, and blues – as if someone had tried to merge this Northbridge, Massachusetts, steel-mesh maker with pieces of a Crayola factory.
Misconceptions about the state of the steel industry in general and the status of the Riverdale Mills Corp. in particular were much on James Knott Jr.’s mind when he agreed to discuss where things stand the afternoon of January 29.
The Wall Street Journal
Trump’s Broken Nafta Promise
When President Trump signed his new Nafta accord last month with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau almost didn’t show up. The reason: Mr. Trump still hasn’t lifted the steel and aluminum tariffs as he promised he’d do if America’s two neighbors signed a revised trade deal.
Portland Monthly Magazine
From Wire to Wine
Before Mr. Knott developed the idea of a wire lobster trap in 1957, lobstermen were using wooden traps—ones they often spent time repairing. In a 2014 interview with the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, Knott says he invented a model “made out of welded wire mesh which is galvanized to protect it from the coating getting scraped off, and it’s plastic coated to prevent the Atlantic Ocean from attacking the steel.” But not everyone believed in this Harvard-educated economist’s vision. “A lot of people laughed. They said, ‘You’re never going to catch a lobster in a wire trap,’ because they’d been using wood for hundreds of years.”
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
After 38 Years, Northbridge’s Riverdale Mills Lives On
A local entrepreneur who passed away recently, James M. Knott Sr. transformed the lobstering industry. And the company he founded in 1980, Northbridge-based Riverdale Mills, continues to do well under the leadership of his son, James Jr.
The Wall Street Journal
James Knott Pioneered Modern Lobster Traps and Fended Off the EPA
James Knott helped build a better lobster trap.
In June, President Donald Trump enacted a 25 percent tariff on imported steel and a 10 percent tariff on imported aluminum from all countries except South Korea, Argentina, Brazil, and Australia. Next came a tariff on $50 billion worth of goods from China, accompanied by the threat of a tariff on another $200 billion in the future. In response, China, Mexico, the European Union, Canada, and India slapped their own tariffs on billions of dollars’ worth of U.S. exports, from whiskey to machine parts to dried fruit.