Seafood

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Santa Cruz, California-based non-profit sustainable seafood consultancy FishWise and the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST), the industry standard for digitally interoperable traceability in seafood, have established a new partnership to promote the…

12th June 2024

New partnership looks to advance electronic seafood traceability

12th June 2024

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Thai Union’s global clean-up programme for World Oceans Day 2024 saw teams collect more than 11 tonnes of rubbish from nine sites including mangroves, rivers, beaches and cities in Thailand, two sites…

12th June 2024

Thai Union volunteers remove ocean-bound rubbish for World Oceans Day

12th June 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Silver Bay Seafoods will take over Trident Seafoods’ False Pass processing facility and fuel business.

10th June 2024

Silver Bay takes over Trident’s False Pass facility

10th June 2024

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Recognising emissions associated with the distribution of seafood are high, Palletower, a leading UK manufacturer, stockist and supplier of storage and logistics equipment, has transitioned the production of its plastic box pallets…

9th June 2024

Logistics experts reveal hidden carbon costs in seafood distribution

9th June 2024

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Nearly half of shoppers who are changing what they eat are doing so because of concerns about the environment, according to a new global survey by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), released…

9th June 2024

Environmental concerns prompting almost half of consumers to switch diets

9th June 2024

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

World fisheries and aquaculture production has hit a new high, with aquaculture production of aquatic animals surpassing capture fisheries for the first time, according to a new report from the Food and…

9th June 2024

FAO: Global fisheries and aquaculture production reaches new record high

9th June 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Seafood giant John West has teamed up with Alzheimer’s Research UK to help people look after their brains.

7th June 2024

John West joins brain health campaign

7th June 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Norway has exported seafood worth NOK14 billion (€1.88 billion) in May, an increase of 8% over the same month in 2023.

6th June 2024

Norway seafood exports at all-time May high

6th June 2024

FEED & NUTRITION

FEED & NUTRITION

Consumers find the thought of using insects and microalgae in salmon feed hard to digest, and most people don’t even know that wild salmon eat insects in the rivers, according to new…

3rd June 2024

Nofima: Consumers need time to find new salmon feeds palatable

3rd June 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

UK seafood supplier Wright Brothers UK has endorsed the Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) programme, the Global Seafood Alliance has confirmed.

3rd June 2024

Wright Brothers UK endorses BAP certification

3rd June 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Commission’s “yellow card” warning to Senegalese authorities that the West African country risks being listed as a non-cooperating third country in the fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, has been welcomed…

29th May 2024

EJF: Senegal’s yellow card strengthens IUU fight

29th May 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Italian-based Newlat Food SpA has declared its intention to acquire the entire Princes Group from the Mitsubishi Corporation, encompassing all current operations and brands in an agreement valued at GBP 700 million.

28th May 2024

Mitsubishi to sell Princes to European food group

28th May 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

An extra GBP 2 million of funding has been made available to support the sustainability, productivity and resilience of England’s thriving seafood sector through the reopening of the Fisheries and Seafood Scheme…

28th May 2024

In demand UK seafood scheme reopens

28th May 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

North American seafood processor and marketer High Liner Foods Incorporated has committed to make a US$10 million investment in Andfjord Salmon Group AS.

23rd May 2024

High Liner Foods invests in land-based salmon farmer

23rd May 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

VeriFish Horizon Europe, a new project seeking to deliver an indicator framework to facilitate understanding of the complexity that lays behind the definition of sustainable seafood, and thereby enhance communication about the…

23rd May 2024

VeriFish – communicating responsible seafood consumption

23rd May 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Through a new collaboration, Australian tuna business JR Simplot Company’s John West brand and Pacific tuna supply chain traceability and verification company Pacifical have begun exchanging data using the GDST (Global Dialogue…

21st May 2024

Tuna leaders improve transparency, sustainability levels

21st May 2024

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Focusing exclusively on the multi-trillion-dollar blue economy, Ocean 14 Capital Fund I has announced it has closed on €201 million to support its mission of funding sustainable solutions to improve ocean health. 

20th May 2024

Ocean 14 Capital Fund I reaches €200m

20th May 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Seafish, the public body that supports the UK seafood industry, has begun formal consultation on proposals for a new levy model.

17th May 2024

Seafish begins levy change consultation

17th May 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Europe’s association of fish processers and traders is calling on the European Commission to back the industry as it continues negotiations on a free trade agreement with Thailand.

13th May 2024

Brussels urged to safeguard EU tuna

13th May 2024

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

With no clear, go-to definition, “sustainability” is a word that often rankles – particularly irking people connected to the seafood space. Yet it continues to be one of the widest-used terms the…

10th May 2024

Sustainable seafood – a chef perspective

10th May 2024