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AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Leading salmon farming companies across Norway are cancelling contracts aimed at increasing capacity after the government announced a tax rate hike on aquaculture from 22% to 62%.

5th October 2022

Norway’s growth threatened

5th October 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Oceana is selling its cold storage business to focus on its global fish protein sector.

5th October 2022

Oceana sells cold storage

5th October 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Big Idea Ventures, an early-stage investor in the alternative protein sector, has announced its latest accelerator cohort, which includes a number of new seafood-focused enterprises.

5th October 2022

‘Seafood’ start-ups funded

5th October 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Large cuts should be made to Northeast Atlantic herring and mackerel quotas for 2023, but next year’s blue whiting catch can increase, according to the latest advice from the International Council for…

5th October 2022

ICES issues pelagic advice

5th October 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Cermaq has announced it will freeze investments in Norway as a consequence of the country’s proposed resource rent tax.

4th October 2022

​Cermaq freezes investments

4th October 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Norwegian land-based salmon farming company Salmon Evolution ASA has confirmed the strong biological performance that it saw in the second-quarter of this year has continued for the remainder of Q3 and that it should…

4th October 2022

Salmon Evolution harvest

4th October 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Norwegian aquaculture services and equipment provider AKVA Group has secured a contract with Icelandic Land Farmed Salmon (ILFS) for the delivery of a new smolt facility to be built in Vestmannaeyjar, the most southern…

4th October 2022

Smolt contract win for AKVA

4th October 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Faroese government has presented a proposal that seeks to adjust its revenue tax on the salmon farming industry from next year. 

4th October 2022

Faroes to revise salmon tax

4th October 2022

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Turkey’s Tersan Shipyard has confirmed the launch of Arctic factory freezer trawler NB1107, which has been built for Denmark-based Ocean Prawns A/S.

4th October 2022

Atlantic Enterprise launched

4th October 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST) has announced its reorganisation into a permanent new entity with full legal independence and a participatory, industry-based structure.

3rd October 2022

Permanent status for GDST

3rd October 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The Marine Stewardship Council has been accused of ‘greenwashing’ after more than half of seafood industry stakeholders said that it was no longer an effective indicator of sustainable fishing.

3rd October 2022

MSC accused of ‘greenwashing’

3rd October 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Compensation is yet to reach fish farmers across Europe seven months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

3rd October 2022

Aid yet to reach fish farmers

3rd October 2022

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

Cyprus has been given €38.3 million in EU funding to help promote the sustainable growth of the country’s aquaculture and fishing sectors.

30th September 2022

EU funding for Cyprus

30th September 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

SalMar’s Chief Financial Officer, Gunnar Nielsen, has resigned from his position, the salmon farming group has confirmed. Nielsen only joined SalMar in April this year.

30th September 2022

SalMar CFO resigns

30th September 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

UK government has announced an expansion to the autonomous tariff quota (ATQ) on imports of coldwater prawn products into the country.

30th September 2022

UK expands prawn tariff

30th September 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Alaska’s Bristol Bay’s 2022 inshore sockeye salmon run totalled 79 million fish – the largest run on record and some 81% above the 43.6 million average for the latest 20-year period (2022-2021). Additionally,…

30th September 2022

Bristol Bay salmon record

30th September 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The creation of a national seafood marketing council for the United States has moved a step closer with Republican Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi introducing the Seafood Marketing Act of 2022, co-sponsored…

30th September 2022

US seafood council return

30th September 2022

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

The 17.4-metre length Euroclydon is the second crabbing fishing vessel built by the Macduff yard in the space of three years, following on from Levanter GY7. Both vessels belong to the same…

30th September 2022

New crabber for Scotland

30th September 2022

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Norway’s Brunvoll AS has signed a contract with Sefine Shipyard in Turkey for the supply of propulsion, manoeuvring and control systems for two large live fish carriers for Intership AS. The vessels…

30th September 2022

Brunvoll fish carrier contract

30th September 2022

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Researchers from a university on the UK’s south coast have released juvenile lobsters on 3D printed artificial reefs to find out more about their preferred habitats.

29th September 2022

3D printed reef study

29th September 2022