By-product solutions

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Seafood is critical to global nutrition and food security, and its consumption is rising each year. However, increasing amounts also end up uneaten. A new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF)…

29th January 2025

Revolutionising fishing – the valorisation of waste and by-products

29th January 2025

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Around 24 million tonnes of edible products generated by fisheries and aquaculture are being lost across supply chains every year, according to estimates made by the World Economic Forum (WEF), with the…

29th January 2025

Healthy returns from by-product pathways

29th January 2025

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

There’s growing global acceptance that many of the traditional and still current uses of commercially-produced fish only capture a small fraction of the full potential value and that continuing on this wasteful…

23rd January 2024

Waste not, want not

23rd January 2024

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

By-products have been drawing attention for their potential to increase sustainability in various sectors, such as the food, diet supplement, animal feed and cosmetics industries. Over the years, these industries have been…

23rd January 2024

An innovative new use for shrimp waste

23rd January 2024

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

In late 2023, the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) announced a new chemical-free approach to treating aquaculture waste. With funding support from the Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC), Scottish Sea Farms,…

23rd January 2024

Sludge – the next fish feed ingredient?

23rd January 2024

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

There are around 10 million tonnes of targeted wild capture fisheries that are wasted every year. This waste consists of cut-offs from processing, heads, frames, guts, skin and scales – which are…

23rd January 2024

The 100% Fish initiative

23rd January 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Running for four years through to September 2025, a key research project is looking to develop healthy and nutritious foods through novel upcycling and extrusion technology. Called “HybridFoods”, the project is being…

23rd January 2024

Upcycling to expand the food mix

23rd January 2024

BY-PRODUCT SOLUTIONS

BY-PRODUCT SOLUTIONS

Established in 2007 as a public limited company in a move that united three of Iceland’s government agencies specialising in research and development in the food industry, Matís has helped the country’s…

2nd December 2022

Potential aplenty

2nd December 2022

OPINION

OPINION

The significant cuts in the allowable catch in the Icelandic economic zone in the 1980s led to a stronger movement in Iceland towards the attitude “more for less”; less catch but make…

2nd December 2022

Viewpoint: What’s landfill material in other countries is creating $110m in Iceland

2nd December 2022

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Billed as the first plant of its kind to open in North America in at least 25 years, the new fishmeal processing facility in Warrenton, Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest, that’s jointly-owned…

2nd December 2022

‘The world needs protein’

2nd December 2022