Industry News

Young’s Seafood is encouraging more families to try swimming at their local pools and is offering a free swim with promotional packs of Young’s Omega 3 Fish Fingers.

Europêche, the trade body representing the fishing industry in Europe, has hit back at claims in an article published in the Guardian on 10 March stating that a leaked European Commission plan…

An international steering committee, under the banner of GlobalHAB, is looking to help fellow researchers understand how harmful algal blooms (HABs) affect human health and their impacts on industries, such as aquaculture,…

Commercial fishing company, Austral Fisheries has attained carbon neutral certification, the first seafood business in the world to do so.

Fish behaviour can change and their genes are altered because of hormones in the contraceptive pill, according to a new doctoral thesis from Lund University in Sweden.

Members of Europêche have expressed their concerns over the current negotiations regarding possible restrictions on bottom trawling in the deep sea.

Probably the biggest change to happen in the seafood processing industry is that many more tasks in the future will be automated.

Thai Union Group PLC (TU) held a special event for suppliers last week in Bangkok to inform them about the company’s strict Code of Conduct to ensure understanding and compliance.

The Global Aquaculture Alliance has announced that Paraiso Springs Aquaculture Guatemala has become qualified to offer four-star Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) tilapia.

Fishing fleets that supply major consumer brands are contributing to Arctic destruction and threatening vulnerable species, according to a new Greenpeace investigation.

Norway’s Hitramat AS and Denmark’s Jeka Fish A/S have signed a joint venture agreement to establish a brown crab processing plant in Denmark.

A WWF event being held in Auckland, New Zealand, this week is focusing on fostering technological innovation across monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS) of marine fisheries.

Young’s Seafood’s Gastro sub-brand has grown by over 50% in the past year, and is now worth over £44m.

Yellowfin tuna stocks in the Indian Ocean are in decline and over one third of tuna is overfished, according to the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF).