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FEED & NUTRITION

FEED & NUTRITION

Three animal feed manufacturers have won a total of US$300,000 in a contest to develop and market aquaculture feeds that do not use ingredients from wild-caught fish.

6th October 2022

Feed challenge winners

6th October 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Secondary producer of nutraceutical, seafood products and marine ingredients New Zealand Coastal Seafoods Limited (NZCS) has announced the intended acquisition of Nine Ocean Group.

5th October 2022

Strategic purchase for NZCS

5th October 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Leading salmon farming companies across Norway are cancelling contracts aimed at increasing capacity after the government announced a tax rate hike on aquaculture from 22% to 62%.

5th October 2022

Norway’s growth threatened

5th October 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Oceana is selling its cold storage business to focus on its global fish protein sector.

5th October 2022

Oceana sells cold storage

5th October 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Big Idea Ventures, an early-stage investor in the alternative protein sector, has announced its latest accelerator cohort, which includes a number of new seafood-focused enterprises.

5th October 2022

‘Seafood’ start-ups funded

5th October 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Large cuts should be made to Northeast Atlantic herring and mackerel quotas for 2023, but next year’s blue whiting catch can increase, according to the latest advice from the International Council for…

5th October 2022

ICES issues pelagic advice

5th October 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Cermaq has announced it will freeze investments in Norway as a consequence of the country’s proposed resource rent tax.

4th October 2022

​Cermaq freezes investments

4th October 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Norwegian land-based salmon farming company Salmon Evolution ASA has confirmed the strong biological performance that it saw in the second-quarter of this year has continued for the remainder of Q3 and that it should…

4th October 2022

Salmon Evolution harvest

4th October 2022

LAND-BASED FARMING

LAND-BASED FARMING

Norwegian aquaculture services and equipment provider AKVA Group has secured a contract with Icelandic Land Farmed Salmon (ILFS) for the delivery of a new smolt facility to be built in Vestmannaeyjar, the most southern…

4th October 2022

Smolt contract win for AKVA

4th October 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Faroese government has presented a proposal that seeks to adjust its revenue tax on the salmon farming industry from next year. 

4th October 2022

Faroes to revise salmon tax

4th October 2022