Seafood

NEWS

NEWS

Avramar has teamed up with the Seafood Nutrition Partnership (SNP), becoming the newest member of the National Seafood Council Task Force and supporting the Eat Seafood America! Initiative.

10th March 2022

Avramar joins SNP

10th March 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

To help restore ocean health, companies selling wild-caught seafood need to demonstrate a lot more accountability in their product procurement and ensure that they are sourcing from fishing operations that are behaving…

9th March 2022

John Kerry: Industry must step up

9th March 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Singapore-based food tech start-up Umami Meats has secured pre-seed funding of US$2.4 million that the company will use to advance its cultivated seafood programme.

9th March 2022

Cell-based seafood backing

9th March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Danish land-based salmon farmer Atlantic Sapphire has appointed Jon-Birger Løvik as its Chief Operating Officer (COO).

9th March 2022

Atlantic Sapphire new COO

9th March 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

US cell-cultured seafood company Finless Foods has closed its Series B funding, achieving a total $34 million – led by Hanwha Solutions, bringing the total raised by the business to nearly $48…

8th March 2022

Plant-based bluefin funding

8th March 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

The Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers (GAPP) Board of Directors has approved a new strategic plan and associated budget to undertake the association’s first-ever national marketing programme.

8th March 2022

Alaska pollock campaign

8th March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Bergen, Norway-based Proximar Seafood AS, which plans to build a recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility producing Atlantic salmon in Oyama town at the foot of Mt Fuji in Japan, has signed a…

8th March 2022

Proximar installation deal

8th March 2022

NEWS

NEWS

Norway exported seafood worth €114.8 million in February, an increase of nearly a third compared with the same period last year.

4th March 2022

Norwegian seafood exports

4th March 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Transitioning to aquatic food-based diets offers a huge opportunity for putting food systems on a low emissions pathway, non-profit research organisation Worldfish has stressed following the publication of a new Intergovernmental Panel…

4th March 2022

Fish versus climate crisis

4th March 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Best practice guidance for animal welfare across the UK shellfish supply chain is under development. The work is being driven by the Shellfish Association of Great Britain (SAGB) and the industry-led Crab and…

3rd March 2022

Shellfish best-practice

3rd March 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

UK-headquartered international food and drink group Princes has fulfilled its 100% responsibly sourced tuna commitment, whereby all of the tuna that it purchased for its brands in the UK, the Netherlands and…

3rd March 2022

Princes meets 100% goal

3rd March 2022

NEWS

NEWS

Scottish smoked salmon producer Associated Seafoods Ltd (ASL) has acquired the assets and goodwill of the Arbroath seafood processing business, R. R. Spink & Sons (Arbroath) Ltd, which was previously part of…

2nd March 2022

ASL acquires Arbroath

2nd March 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Shellfish companies are particularly at risk from the certification processes that followed the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, but all seafood supply chains are being affected to some degree by…

1st March 2022

Red tape crisis

1st March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A new national organisation that has been formed to promote the small and medium enterprises that stock and equip Canada’s growing aquaculture sector is calling on federal government to support the industry…

28th February 2022

Canadian aquaculture lift

28th February 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

After six years as chief executive of the Norwegian Seafood Council, Renate Larsen has decided to step down.

28th February 2022

NSCs CEO steps down

28th February 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Trade body Seafood Industry Australia (SIA) has received an AUD 1.275 million grant to develop and expand new, emerging and high-growth potential markets, building on the country’s Seafood Industry Export Market Strategic Plan. 

28th February 2022

Aussie seafood export boost

28th February 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Cell-based salmon start-up Wildtype has confirmed that it has raised US$100 million in its latest funding round, with investments coming from actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio, Bezos Expeditions, S2G Ventures Oceans and…

24th February 2022

DiCaprio, Bezos invest

24th February 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Aquaculture feed company BioMar has significantly scaled-up the inclusion of microalgae in the raw material portfolio of its production facility in Brande, Denmark, to the point that it no longer regards it…

22nd February 2022

Championing microalgae

22nd February 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Thanks to a bumper capelin catch, Iceland’s fishing fleet landed 220,032 tonnes of wild-capture fish and shellfish last month, up from 73,643 tonnes in January 2021.

21st February 2022

Icelandic catch trebles

21st February 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

American Seafoods Group has appointed Einar Gustafsson as new chief executive, succeeding Mikel Durham who has decided to step down from the role.

21st February 2022

New American Seafoods CEO

21st February 2022