Canada

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

With shrimp stocks in the estuary and Gulf of St Lawrence in eastern Canada are on the brink of complete collapse, the Listuguj Mi’gmaq Government is calling for a moratorium to protect what few shrimp…

7th December 2023

New call for halting Gulf of St Lawrence shrimp fishery

7th December 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Government department Fisheries and Oceans Canada has been unable to collect the dependable and timely information about fish catches that it needs to sustainably manage commercial marine fisheries and protect Canada’s fish…

9th November 2023

Report: Canadian authorities doing a poor job of managing fisheries

9th November 2023

SHIPYARD NEWS

SHIPYARD NEWS

Turkey’s Tersan Shipyard has launched NB1117, soon to be named Inuksuk II, a factory freezer stern trawler built for Niqitaq Fisheries in Canada.

1st November 2023

Tersan Shipyard launches Canada’s largest trawler

1st November 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Bergen, Norway-headquartered Mowi achieved a company-wide salmon harvest of 135,000 tonnes in the third-quarter of this year, representing a volume increase of 1,000 tonnes compared with the corresponding period of 2022.

18th October 2023

Mowi’s Q3 harvest edges up, earnings drop

18th October 2023

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The wreck of Spanish fishing trawler Villa de Pitanxo that sunk off the Canadian coast in February last year claiming 21 lives has been found, officials have confirmed.

6th June 2023

Sunken Spanish trawler found

6th June 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Atlantic salmon producer Mowi ASA harvested 102,500 tonnes of gutted weight equivalent (GWE) fish in the first-quarter of this year, some 5,500 tonnes more than in the corresponding period of 2022, and…

18th April 2023

Higher first-quarter harvest for Mowi, earnings rise

18th April 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Canadian seafood group Cooke Inc has completed the acquisition of Slade Gorton, one of the United States’ largest distributors, importers and manufacturers of fresh and frozen seafood.

17th April 2023

Cooke completes Slade Gorton purchase

17th April 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

New Brunswick’s first land-based atlantic salmon aquaculture facility has been given a green light to proceed by local government.

11th April 2023

Green light for Canadian land-based facility

11th April 2023

SPECIAL REPORTS

SPECIAL REPORTS

In Canada, work is underway to help seafood processors digitise their data in real time. Hopes are high that this will improve the profitability and sustainability of a critical player in the global seafood supply chain.

23rd March 2023

Traceability tech targets seafood processing

23rd March 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Canadian seafood group Cooke Inc has entered into a binding purchase agreement to acquire Slade Gorton, one of the United States largest distributors, importers, and manufacturers of fresh and frozen seafood.

15th March 2023

Cooke buys US seafood giant

15th March 2023

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Recent federal government licensing decisions to shut down salmon farming operations in parts of British Columbia (BC) mean that Canadian salmon is costing more for families, is harder to find in grocery…

2nd February 2023

Canadian pockets hit

2nd February 2023

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

Bilbao, Spain’s Zamakona Yards has delivered the live fish carrier Inter Atlantic to Norwegian owner Intership. The vessel is the first of the two newbuilds from Zamakona for the same owner. 

10th January 2023

Inter Atlantic delivered

10th January 2023

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Salmon farmers in Canada have signed up to new national commitments aimed at providing safe, reliable, healthy and low carbon footprint protein for Canadians and other markets.

14th December 2022

Canadian salmon promise

14th December 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Cooke Inc, parent company of Cooke Aquaculture Inc of New Brunswick, Canada, has completed its acquisition of Australian Atlantic salmon and black tiger shrimp producer Tassal Group Limited.

21st November 2022

Cooke acquires Tassal

21st November 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

In response to the 14 November announcement that the State of Washington’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will not renew the leases for Cooke Aquaculture Pacific’s steelhead farms in Washington waters, three…

17th November 2022

Call for Cooke-DNR review

17th November 2022

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Fishery officers in Canada have uncovered 25 serious violations of fisheries management measures as part of their work to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the North Pacific.

16th November 2022

IUU detection success

16th November 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

Scout has raised US$4 million in a seed funding round, with the money raised to be used to accelerate the Canadian seafood company’s omni-channel brand strategy and operational expansion.

20th October 2022

Scout raises millions

20th October 2022

SEAFOOD

SEAFOOD

American lobsters (Homus americanus) caught in the United States and Canada have been added to the list of species for consumers to avoid by Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch programme, with the…

12th September 2022

American lobsters red listed

12th September 2022

NEW VESSELS

NEW VESSELS

The name on the side of the new fishing vessel delivered by Chantier Naval Forillon isn’t an easy one, but this reflects the Listuguj Mi’gmaq Government’s optimism for commercial fisheries

12th September 2022

Gaspé’s new crabber-trawler

12th September 2022

AQUACULTURE

AQUACULTURE

Salmon producer Cermaq Canada has become the first company to utilise new forecasting tools in the proprietary SaaS platform SeaState developed by California ocean analytics firm Scoot Science. Cermaq is also the…

5th July 2022

Cermaqs new forecast tech

5th July 2022