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SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

With million tonnes of fisheries and aquaculture raw materials going to waste, IceFish 2022’s Fish Waste for Profit Conference heard there’s significant scope to optimise the use and value of seafood

19th July 2022

Total fish utilisation

19th July 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Six tuna stocks fished by the Association of Large Freezer Tuna Vessels (AGAC) have been certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).

18th July 2022

Spanish tuna certified

18th July 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Reduced catches across all of Iceland’s main fisheries categories led the country’s fishing fleet to land 29% less seafood last month, with the capture of 35,237 tonnes of fish and shellfish, according…

18th July 2022

29% fall in Icelandic fish

18th July 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Norway-headquartered aquaculture services and equipment provider AKVA Group ASA hereby has confirmed that its wholly-owned subsidiary AKVA Group Land Based A/S has been awarded a post-smolt RAS contract with Cooke Aquaculture (Kelly Cove Salmon…

18th July 2022

AKVA wins smolt contract

18th July 2022

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

Vista, California-based Aquasend has engineered an outdoor buoy for aqua-farming that senses water quality from dissolved oxygen levels and temperature (DOT) and records real-time data which streams to a smart phone or computer.

15th July 2022

Water quality management

15th July 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The Association of National Organizations of Fishing Enterprises in the EU (Europêche) insists that Europe’s control rule on margin of tolerance is incompatible with fishing operations in the tropical tuna purse seine fishery.

15th July 2022

EU tuna fleet threatened

15th July 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Current laws around visas and short-term contracts are leaving Filipino migrant fishermen in north-east Scotland vulnerable to abuse and coercive control.

15th July 2022

Migrant workers at risk from abuse

15th July 2022

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY

A partnership between aquaculture technology venture Pulcea and the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture has received the highest possible accolade from Innovate UK for collaboration between business and academia, after being…

14th July 2022

‘Outstanding’ partnership

14th July 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Upon finding that one of the lobsters received in a delivery was a distinctive bright orange colour, employees at a Red Lobster restaurant in Hollywood, Florida went on a mission to rescue…

14th July 2022

Rare lobster saved

14th July 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Norwegian land-based salmon farming company Salmon Evolution ASA has confirmed that on 13 July 2022 it successfully completed the second smolt release at its new facility at Indre Harøy on the country’s…

14th July 2022

Salmon Evolution release

14th July 2022

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

EU fishing fleets from Spain and Portugal are consistently fishing in baby shark nursery grounds in the North Atlantic, according to a Greenpeace report revealed today on Shark Awareness Day (14 July).

14th July 2022

EU fisheries targeting baby shark

14th July 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

International deep-tech food company MeaTech 3D Ltd has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore-based Umami Meats for the joint development of 3D-printed cultured structured seafood.

13th July 2022

3D printed seafood deal

13th July 2022

FEED & NUTRITION

FEED & NUTRITION

Norwegian land-based aquaculture company Andfjord Salmon has signed a letter of intent with aquafeed supplier Skretting Norway and Sortland-based Zooca (Calanus AS) that facilitates the provision of a specifically designed salmon feed…

13th July 2022

Salmon feed collab

13th July 2022

INSIGHT

INSIGHT

Thousands of visitors – spanning the entire fisheries sector – were warmly welcomed to 13th edition of the Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition in Kópavogur

13th July 2022

IceFish 2022 – back to business

13th July 2022

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

To support companies that have the ambition to increase circularity in the seafood space, the Iceland Ocean Cluster (IOC) and processing solutions provider Marel have announced a strengthening of their already longstanding…

13th July 2022

Blue economy partnership

13th July 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The opening morning of Australia’s Bass Strait Central Zone Scallop fishery (BSCZSF) 2022 season brought the confirmation that it had achieved certification for its sustainable fisheries practices and management.

12th July 2022

Aussie certified scallops

12th July 2022

NEWS

NEWS

Salmon Scotland has marked a new milestone signing up nine new aquaculture and support companies.

12th July 2022

Scottish salmon garners support

12th July 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

UK fishing vessel owners and skippers are being urged to take part in Seafish’s annual survey of the fleet which began in Peterhead, Scotland, on 11 July. 

12th July 2022

Fishing fleet survey

12th July 2022

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Scotland’s Macduff Shipyards Limited has signed over its latest newbuild fishing vessel, Celestial Dawn BF 109, to owner George Hepburn and partners.

11th July 2022

North Sea newbuild arrives

11th July 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Vietnam’s fisheries yield in the first half of 2022 increased by 2.5% year-on-year to almost 4.2 million tonnes, according to data released by the country’s Directorate of Fisheries.

11th July 2022

Vietnam production growth

11th July 2022