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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

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Scotland’s salmon farming sector is helping save lives by installing defibrillators in local communities where companies operate.

9th March 2022

Defibrillator rollout

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

FEED & NUTRITION

FEED & NUTRITION

SHV and Nutreco, the respective owner and sister company of global aquaculture feed company Skretting, have advised that no new investments, no new projects and no new exports to Russia will be…

7th March 2022

Aquafeed conflict response

7th March 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Aquafeed giant BioMar Group has ceased all commercial trade activities within Russia in response to the Ukraine invasion.

7th March 2022

BioMar: No Russia trade

7th March 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Rural Affairs Secretary, Mairi Gougeon, has instructed Scottish Government officials to withdraw from any fisheries negotiations involving the Russian Federation until further notice.

7th March 2022

Postpone fisheries talks

7th March 2022

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

An advocacy group committed to sustainable deep fishing in the North Atlantic has urged coastal states to agree on the management of mackerel, herring and blue whiting, ending a 13 year dispute…

7th March 2022

North Atlantic quotas

7th March 2022