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SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

New Brunswick, Canada, headquartered seafood company Cooke Inc has made Johan Brouwer its new Managing Director of Morubel and Executive Frozen Sales Leader for Cooke Europe.

19th September 2023

Cooke appoints new chief for Morubel and European frozen seafood

19th September 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

The US Department of Commerce and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced the next steps to conserve and recover endangered North Atlantic right whales with US$82 million in funding…

19th September 2023

Biden administration gives $82m for right whale conservation

19th September 2023

BUSINESS & FINANCE

BUSINESS & FINANCE

Deepwater fishing company Sealord has entered into an agreement to acquire privately-owned Independent Fisheries, with the deal hailed as the largest financial transaction in New Zealand’s seafood sector since the Sealord deal in 1992…

18th September 2023

Sealord buys Independent Fisheries, becomes NZ’s largest seafood company

18th September 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Two specialists in the sustainably-sourced frozen seafood sector are combing to create a single company.

18th September 2023

Mark Foods and Arista Industries join forces

18th September 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Movements of Pacific oysters in Devon, UK have been restricted after a herpes virus outbreak

18th September 2023

Disease outbreak limits oyster movements

18th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The volume of fish and shellfish landed by the Iceland’s fishing fleet increased by 10% or 10,464 tonnes year-on-year in August 2023 to a total 114,483 tonnes, according to preliminary figures for…

18th September 2023

Larger whitefish, mackerel landings lift Iceland’s August catch

18th September 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Statt Torsk ASA has entered into a merger agreement with whitefish company Vesterålen Havbruk.

18th September 2023

Cod farmer enters into merger agreement

18th September 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The European Union is ready to exchange fisheries control data using a new common global standard recognised by the United Nations, the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) has confirmed.

18th September 2023

EU approves standard to share fisheries data

18th September 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Acme Smoked Fish Foundation is running its Seafood Industry Climate Awards for a second year in a row.

15th September 2023

Seafood climate awards return for second year

15th September 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Azerbaijan Fish Farm has achieved Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification, becoming the first sturgeon breeding farm to do so.

14th September 2023

First sturgeon farm achieves BAP certification

14th September 2023