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SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

UK seafood restaurants and takeaways have an exciting opportunity to attract and engage customers by highlighting the numerous health benefits of their dishes. That’s the message from three multi-award-winning businesses, recognised for…

10th January 2025

Brits urged to get onboard with seafood

10th January 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Glyvrar-based aquaculture company Bakkafrost has signed a new agreement with the Faroese Football Association (FSF) ensuring that the company will continue as the main sponsor of the Faroese men’s national football team…

10th January 2025

Landsliðið – four more years with Bakkafrost

10th January 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

The taxation of the Faroes’ salmon industry has been restructured, effective from 1 January 2025, following a broad political agreement stretching to 2032, producer Bakkafrost has confirmed.

9th January 2025

Faroe Islands onboards new salmon farming tax

9th January 2025

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

Overfishing, illegal fishing and the increased marketing of shark meat pose significant threats to the more than 80 species of sharks and rays that inhabit the Mediterranean Sea, according to a new…

9th January 2025

Mediterranean sharks continue decline despite conservation progress

9th January 2025

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Aquaculture volumes can be expected to grow this year, including increases in fish and shrimp harvests, projects Rabobank’s latest RaboResearch report.

9th January 2025

Aquaculture production forecast to grow in 2025

9th January 2025

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

The largest new vessel to join the Falklands fleet fishing for squid in the South Atlantic has been delivered by the Nodosa Shipyard in Galicia to the Petrel Fishing Company, a joint-venture…

9th January 2025

Nodosa delivers new Falklands factory trawler

9th January 2025

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Environmental NGOs are filing a legal challenge against the Dutch government over the ongoing practice of bottom trawling in the Dogger Bank, a vital marine protected area (MPA) in the North Sea.

9th January 2025

Netherlands sued over Dogger Bank trawling

9th January 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Kafr El Sheikh University has strengthened its partnership with aquaculture welfare organisation FAI by incorporating its free tilapia welfare e-learning courses and mobile-based Tilapia Welfare App into its academic curriculum. 

8th January 2025

Egyptian university adds FAI fish welfare tools, training to curriculum

8th January 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Mowi Scotland has been granted a Royal Warrant of Appointment for the supply of fresh salmon to King Charles.

8th January 2025

Mowi Scotland granted royal warrant

8th January 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

PTG Frionordica has secured a record-breaking contract with Artec Aqua to supply six advanced heat pumps and seawater exchangers with a combined heating capacity of over 100,000 kW.

8th January 2025

PTG Frionordica wins second Indre Harøy deal

8th January 2025

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

A 276 kg bluefin tuna sold for JPY 207 million (US$1.3 million) at this year’s first tuna auction on Tokyo’s Toyosu Fish Market, the second highest price paid for the prized fish on record.

8th January 2025

Tokyo tuna sells for $1.3 million

8th January 2025

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

A new study reveals that Scottish seafood like salmon, herring and mackerel, rich in Omega-3 and Vitamin B12, is predominantly exported, despite its health and climate benefits. 

7th January 2025

Warning over lost health benefits to seafood exports

7th January 2025

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

Norway exported a total 2.8 million tonnes of seafood in 2024, worth a record NOK 175.4 billion, with the volume corresponding to 38 million meals every single day. This was achieved despite the year…

7th January 2025

Best year ever for Norwegian seafood exports

7th January 2025

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Salmon has firmly established itself as the UK’s most popular fish, with sales increasing by 9.1% over the past year.

6th January 2025

Salmon remains UK’s favourite fish

6th January 2025

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Nationally-recognised trade body Scottish Seafood Association (SSA) has voiced support for the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) and its recent statement regarding the urgent need to safeguard the future of fishing and processing…

6th January 2025

Concerns escalate over Scottish industry’s future

6th January 2025

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Vietnam is intensifying its efforts to address illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, aiming to have the European Commission’s (EC) ‘yellow card’ lifted in the coming months.

6th January 2025

Vietnam pushes to overturn EC yellow card

6th January 2025

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

With its new vessel, Gjögur has followed the trend away from processing at sea – new Hákon is a pelagic trawler/purse seiner with purely RSW capacity. The newbuild is one of a…

6th January 2025

New pelagic catcher joins Icelandic fleet

6th January 2025

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

PROCESSING & REFRIGERATION

Employees at UK food and drinks brand Princes Food, which has plants in Long Sutton in Lincolnshire, Bradford, Wisbech, Glasgow and Cardiff, will strike over pay in January. Union Unite said its…

6th January 2025

Princes Food striking over reneged pay increase

6th January 2025

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

The European Commission has followed up on the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) “Stop finning – Stop the trade”, which asked it for action to end international trade of loose shark fins. From January…

19th December 2024

Brussels steps up shark trade monitoring

19th December 2024

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Scottish smoked salmon producer John Ross has been granted the Royal Warrant of Appointment as Fish Merchant and Curer to The King.

19th December 2024

John Ross granted royal warrant

19th December 2024