Business & Finance

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The UK’s seafood landscape has changed dramatically and became a lot more challenging in the four years that followed 2019, but 2024 has brought some green shoots of recovery, according to Seafish…

29th October 2024

UK seafood loses £1bn in four years

29th October 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Salmon producer Mowi ASA has announced Ole-Eirik Lerøy has decided to step down as Chairman of the Board following a 15-year tenure with the company. Ørjan Svanevik has been proposed as successor…

28th October 2024

Ole-Eirik Lerøy to step down as Mowi Chairman

28th October 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The UK’s National Fish & Chip Awards has announced the 10 finalists that will compete for 2025’s Restaurant of the Year prize.

28th October 2024

10 restaurants eye fish and chips prize

28th October 2024

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

Artificial intelligence – or AI – is perfectly aligned with the seafood industry’s ambition to help sustainably feed a global population hurtling towards 10 billion people by 2050, and only those ventures…

25th October 2024

‘AI will transform seafood’

25th October 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Bluefront Equity has announced its biggest ever investment with the majority acquisition of aquaculture technology specialist, Cryogenetics.

21st October 2024

Bluefront acquires 80% stake in Cryogenetics

21st October 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The UK Seafood School at Grimsby Institute, UK has officially opened, helping to safeguard the town’s historic seafood industry.

21st October 2024

UK seafood school launches in Grimsby

21st October 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The UK’s new All Party Parliamentary Group on Fisheries (APPG) has held its inaugural meeting to elect officers and map out a cross-party work programme to promote and support a sustainable and…

18th October 2024

New APPG charts a strategic course for UK fisheries

18th October 2024

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

A new economic snapshot focused on the Alaska seafood industry has been released by NOAA Fisheries, with the estimate from economists that it suffered a US$ 1.8 billion loss in 2022-2023, and…

16th October 2024

Alaska’s seafood industry suffers $1.8bn losses

16th October 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Forty of the UK’s best fish and chip shops are in the running for the acclaimed Takeaway of the Year title, with the announcement of the category shortlist for the National Fish &…

16th October 2024

40 chippies in the running for top UK takeaway prize

16th October 2024

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Land-based aquaculture company Stolt Sea Farm (SSF) has broken ground on the construction of RAS II, its new recirculation facility in Tocha, Portugal, for the production of sole.

15th October 2024

Stolt Sea Farm starts construction of new Portuguese facility

15th October 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Trade body Seafood Industry Australia (SIA) has welcomed the agreement of a timetable to resume trade of live Australian lobster back into the mainland China market and has extended its gratitude to ministers and officials…

11th October 2024

Australia to resume live lobster trade with China

11th October 2024

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

A new draft South East Marine Parks Management Plan has been unveiled by Tanya Plibersek MP, Minister for the Environment and Water. But while it has been designed to bolster marine biodiversity…

10th October 2024

Triumph for Australian tuna

10th October 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The Irish seafood economy has faced a turbulent year in 2023, with GDP declining by 2.9% to €1.2 billion, according to the latest Business of Seafood report released by Bord Iascaigh Mhara…

9th October 2024

Irish seafood navigates challenges

9th October 2024

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has announced GBP 1.6 million in funding for three major research projects aimed at improving the health and welfare of Scottish salmon, a key focus for the…

8th October 2024

Scottish aquaculture receives GBP 1.6m boost

8th October 2024

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

A project is underway in Argyll to create Scotland’s first commercial laboratory for the detailed analysis of marine environmental DNA (eDNA).

8th October 2024

First eDNA lab for Scottish aquaculture

8th October 2024

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

Having secured a budget allocation of EUR 177 million for 2025 to support the seafood sector, Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue TD said he is confident it…

8th October 2024

€177m allocated to support Irish seafood in 2025

8th October 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

A ruling confirming the invalidity of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFPA) between the EU and Morocco has been issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union. 

7th October 2024

EU Court annuls fisheries agreement with Morocco

7th October 2024

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney has confirmed 67 projects will share a total of GBP 14 million in support from the latest round of Marine Fund Scotland.

7th October 2024

Marine fund awards Scottish seafood businesses

7th October 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Norway exported seafood valued at NOK 44.1 billion (€3.77 billion) in the third quarter of 2024, an increase of 5% over the same period last year.

4th October 2024

Norway’s seafood exports set new Q3 record

4th October 2024

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Turkey’s Tersan Shipyard has confirmed delivery of vessel NB1117, soon to be named “Inuksuk II”, a factory freezer stern trawler constructed for Niqitaq Fisheries of Canada. 

3rd October 2024

Canada’s largest trawler delivered

3rd October 2024