Industry News

As founder of action group, Scotland Against Modern Slavery, and director of recruitment agency, Brightline, Shan Saba is urging businesses to do more to help combat human rights abuses.

Irelands seafood development agency, Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), has launched the countrys first accredited fishmonger qualification.

Pelagic longline fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico are being invited to help restore oceanic fish species that are yet to recover following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

Demonstrating its commitment to sustainability and transparency, Aldi UK & Ireland has become the latest retailer to join the Ocean Disclosure Project (ODP).

Danish suppliers are highly proactive in their approach to new industry demands, are very attentive to customer needs, innovative and focused on developing the right products in close collaboration with customers and…

A seminar examining the UK’s exit from the European Union will be one of the key events at this year’s DanFish exhibition. The seminar will be held in Danish and will take…

Mexico and Ecuador have been identified in a NOAA Fisheries publication for reported IUU fishing activities, despite taking corrective action after being named in a 2017 NOAA report.

In May and June this year around forty fishing boats from San Benedetto del Tronto, on Italys Adriatic coast, collected and brought ashore all the plastic recovered during fishing. A month after the…

Fishing industry leaders in EU North Sea member states and Norway are working together to try to find ways to ensure that the final TAC agreed after the autumn and December Fisheries…

The US has put South Korea on a preliminary list of countries engaged in illegal fishing in a move which could result in trade sanctions on Korean seafood exports if immediate reforms…

The complexity of the negotiations facing Britain following its expected departure from the European Union has been highlighted by solicitor Charley Hattersley, an expert in commercial marine law.

Kongsberg Maritime has expanded its Canadian operation by establishing a presence at COVE, the Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

An agreement on the financing of the Russian Pollock processing plant has been signed Russian Fishery Company (RFC) CEO Fedor Kirsanov and Marina Perebeynus, Deputy Chairman of the Far Eastern Bank of…

In May and June this year around forty fishing boats from San Benedetto del Tronto, on Italys Adriatic coast, collected and brought ashore all the plastic recovered during fishing. A month after the…

Organisers of the annual Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global events have announced that next year’s exhibition in Brussels will be the last one before the event moves to a new home in…

Australian kingfish producer, Clean Seas Seafood, has announced plans to expand sales volumes by 50% to 4000 tonnes a year by 2022 and 6000 tonnes by 2025.

Europêche has given full support to an ambitious World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement which aims to abolish fishery subsidies which the trade body says are contributing to overcapacity and overfishing.

The Seafood Alliance for Legality and Traceability (SALT) has launched an online learning hub to showcase seafood traceability efforts around the globe and encourage collaboration across industry, governments and NGOs.

Thai Union Groups global director of corporate affairs and sustainability has been recognised as one of Asia’s Top Sustainability Superwomen for encouraging positive change across the global seafood industry.

The EU and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania have agreed to extend for up to one year the protocol governing the sustainable fisheries partnership agreement which was due to expire in November…