Seafood

Seafood certification organisation, Friend of the Sea, is asking people to vote on whether sustainable seafood can come from overexploited or depleted stocks.

M&J Seafood announced last week that it will no longer be supplying shark to the catering trade as of the end of March 2008. The decision to remove all shark from its…

The Ben Tre clam fishery of Vietnam is the first fishery in South East Asia to seek assessment against the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) environmental standard for well-managed and sustainable fisheries.

The US National Fisheries Institute (NFI) has released its ‘Top 10’ list of the most consumed seafood in the United States for 2006.

Aker Seafoods has entered into an agreement to purchase 50 per cent of the shares in Norwegian Fish Company Export AS (NFC). The transaction gives Aker Seafoods ownership of several processing plants…

In a joint letter to the Norwegian government, Royal Greenland and seven other seafood companies and purchasers have stated their commitment to sourcing Barents Sea cod from well-managed fisheries and urged the…

Eight of Europe’s largest and most influential seafood companies have signed and addressed a joint letter to the Norwegian government, committing to do their best to avoid illegal Barents Sea cod and…

The Scottish seafood industry has a fantastic future with huge potential for market growth, guests at the official opening of Macrae’s new £10m seafood processing facility at Livingston heard yesterday.

Aker Seafoods has entered into an agreement with Domstein Enghav Sweden to take over the activities connected to the wholly-owned subsidiary Fiskmästar’n. As a result, Aker Seafoods will play a considerable larger…

The Seafood Training Academy is a brand new initiative to enhance training in the seafood sector. This partnership between leading seafood schools in the UK and industry body Seafish will be part…

Organisations and people with innovative ideas that could benefit the seafood industry have been invited to apply for the second round of funding from the Seafish Industry and Partnership Project Fund.

A record number of entries for the Seafood Awards 2007 has underlined the innovation and dynamism that lies at the heart of the UK seafood industry.

An Taoiseach Bertie Ahern T.D., along with Minister Noel Dempsey T.D. and Minister of State John Browne T.D., launched the Irish Government’s new National Seafood Strategy at a press conference on 28…