Business & Finance

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Water treatment specialist BIO-UV Group is to supply one of its latest Triogen ozone generators to new salmon farm being developed in Chile by Cermaq.

21st November 2023

BIO-UV wins new salmon farm contract

21st November 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Redundancies have been made at Bakkafrost which the company says is directly due to a decrease in harvest volumes and the new Faroese revenue tax.

14th November 2023

Faroese revenue tax blamed for Bakkafrost job losses

14th November 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Propulsion and manoeuvring systems supplier Brunvoll has been selected to deliver a range of equipment for a new compact service vessel designed by Moen Marin for the aquaculture industry.

10th November 2023

Brunvoll contracted for new aquaculture service vessel

10th November 2023

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Seafood company Brim hf and processing equipment supplier Vélfag have signed an agreement for the purchase the first UNO machine in Iceland. It will be installed at Brim’s Kambur processing facility in…

10th November 2023

Brim invests in Iceland’s first UNO

10th November 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Mowi has reported another record-breaking quarter in Q3 2023 with revenues of €1.36 billion, thanks to the high demand and prices for salmon.

8th November 2023

Mowi enjoys record-breaking quarter

8th November 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

If non-EU countries want to fish in Irish waters, they must face the same control and conservation regime as the Irish fleet. Otherwise all of the fish species they catch may not…

8th November 2023

Call for ban on factory vessels fishing in Irish waters

8th November 2023

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Aquaculture and biotech firm Colors Farm Ltd and computational biology company Evogene Ltd have entered into a collaboration with Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU) to develop gene editing technology for crustaceans.

7th November 2023

Trio establish shrimp gene editing tech

7th November 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Norway achieved its best ever month for seafood exports in October worth a value of NOK 18.4 billion, largely thanks to salmon.

6th November 2023

Norway breaks its record for seafood exports again

6th November 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Alaska has harvested a total 230.2 million salmon in 2023, a 43% increase from the 2022 total harvest of 160.7 million fish, according to preliminary figures published by the Alaska Department of…

6th November 2023

Alaska’s salmon harvest loses significant value

6th November 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The delivery of a new fund to compensate Irish pelagic fishermen for the impacts Brexit has had on their businesses has been welcomed by the industry.

1st November 2023

Pelagic fishers welcome new funding to mitigate Brexit

1st November 2023

FEED & NUTRITION

FEED & NUTRITION

US agricultural bioscience company Yield10 Bioscience and aquafeed giant BioMar Group have entered a long-term partnership to commercialise a Camelina crop containing enriched levels of EPA and DHA equal to fish oil.

1st November 2023

New partnership looks to grow fish oil on land

1st November 2023

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Bluefront Equity-owned Seacloud, a provider of software and sensor technologies to the fish farming industry, has entered into an agreement to acquire Meox’s environmental monitoring products and software. 

31st October 2023

Seacloud acquires Meox’s environmental monitoring portfolio

31st October 2023

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Water treatment systems specialist BIO-UV Group has announced a new partnership with Boston-based aquaculture technology company Innovasea that will see its products made available to the aquaculture market and adapted to meet…

26th October 2023

BIO-UV, Innovasea ink aquaculture deal

26th October 2023

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

German-based frozen food manufacturer FRoSTA AG has invested €10 million in new freezing technology from Starfrost that has led to a 20% increase in production capacity.

25th October 2023

Frozen food giant boosts production with Starfrost solutions

25th October 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

After around two and a half years in the role, Andreas Thorud has resigned from his position as the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) representative to China and has announced a move to…

25th October 2023

Norwegian Seafood Council’s China representative to depart

25th October 2023

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Denmark-headquartered seafood processing solutions company Carsoe has appointed Johan Schwerin as its new After Sales Director.

24th October 2023

Carsoe names new after-sales director

24th October 2023

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Precision Measurement Engineering (PME) brand Aquasend has joined the HATCH Blue Accelerator 6.0 programme, a 14-week international masterclass designed to scale sustainable solutions in the blue economy for US-based companies. 

23rd October 2023

Aquasend selected for HATCH Blue Accelerator 6.0 programme

23rd October 2023

NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS

As a key source of high-quality protein and other nutrients, seafood is an essential part of the human diet, and with the global population continuing to rise, demand is likely to increase…

23rd October 2023

Tuna side-streams – for a circular fish farming industry

23rd October 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Bergen, Norway-headquartered Mowi achieved a company-wide salmon harvest of 135,000 tonnes in the third-quarter of this year, representing a volume increase of 1,000 tonnes compared with the corresponding period of 2022.

18th October 2023

Mowi’s Q3 harvest edges up, earnings drop

18th October 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation (FPA2) and Una Terra Venture Capital Fund (UT), a €200 million impact fund, have entered a transformative partnership dedicated to catalysing sustainable progress in climate…

18th October 2023

Prince Albert foundation, investment fund form transformative partnership

18th October 2023