Seafood – Page 65
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Premium Brands expands seafood platform
Premium Brands Holdings Corporation, a leading Canadian producer, marketer and distributor of branded specialty food products, has acquired 60% of Hub City Fisheries. Hub is a value-added fresh seafood processor operating out of a facility located on Vancouver Island.
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Tonka Seafoods looks into shrimp processing
Tonka Seafoods Inc is interested in restarting shrimp processing in Petersburg, Alaska, and has approached the Petersburg Harbor Board seeking permission to build a two-story warehouse close to the Petersburg Community Cold Storage facility.
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EU bans Pakistani seafood exports again
The European Union has once again banned imports of Pakistani seafood because the exporter has neglected to lift its food safety regulations to global standards.
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Malaysia to resume seafood exports to Russia
Malaysia’s export of seafood products to Russia is expected to resume by the year-end following discussions between the Malaysia External Trade Development Corp (Matrade) and Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture and the Federal Service of Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor).
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BP to pay Florida $20m for seafood projects
BP has agreed to pay Florida $20 million (€14.4 million) over the next three years, half of which - $10 million (€7.2 million) - will go toward paying for seafood inspections and the other half will be used for a marketing campaign geared toward restoring public confidence in the safety ...
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Vietnam's seafood exports pass $3.5bn
Vietnam exported more than 969,200 tonnes of seafood products worth $3.5 billion (€2.5 billion) in the first nine months of this year, an increase of 10.9% in quantity and 15.4% in value compared to the same period of last year.
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Northseafood diversifies packaging and doubles line speed
Northseafood Holland BV, a leading supplier of flat fish, has responded to market demand for different pack presentations and doubled its packing speed while increasing accuracy, following the installation of a special 14-head weigher from Ishida Europe.
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Seafish offers advice on using seafood nutrition and health claims
Advice on making authorised nutrition and health claims in line with new European legislation is now available on the Seafish website www.seafish.org
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Tonka Seafoods looks into shrimp processing
Tonka Seafoods Inc is interested in restarting shrimp processing in Petersburg, Alaska, and last week approached the Petersburg Harbor Board seeking permission to build a two-story warehouse close to the Petersburg Community Cold Storage facility.
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West Coast Seafood Processors Association – looking to the future
The US west coast trawl groundfish industry – fishermen and processors – will experience a fundamental change in management in 2011. The change to catch shares or an individual quota system will likely create some temporary confusion but may lead to innovation and increased value-adding options for processors in subsequent ...
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India seafood exports grow 22%
Indian seafood exports increased by 22% in July to $170 million (€129.4 million), compared to $139 million (€105.8 million) in July 2009, due to greater US, Japanese and European demand.
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New seafood import rules anger Vietnamese
Vietnamese firms are unhappy that new food safety rules that took effect early this month have made it difficult for them to obtain seafood import licenses.
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Whole Foods unveils new seafood ratings
Whole Foods Market has announced it is partnering with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch programme and the Blue Ocean Institute to label all the wild-caught seafood in its North American stores according to the sustainability criteria of science-based organisations.
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NewsYoung’s continues seafood NPD drive
Continuing its autumn new product development (NPD) push, UK seafood giant Young’s has added three new products to its range. Young’s Breaded Cod and Haddock Fillets and Young’s Chip Shop Family Takeaway are aimed at extending the appeal of frozen fish to a wider audience of all ages and tastes.
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Beijing Culimer moves closer to seafood heartland
Seafood supplier Beijing Culimer Seafood Im-Exporting Co Ltd has moved to a new, larger location to facilitate the company’s growth in China.
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UK seafood training centre to shut
A centre that has helped train hundreds of people for the UK seafood industry is set to close because its funding has been withdrawn.
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NewsAmerican Seafoods, Murmansk contracts for Naust
This year has been another good year for orders of Naust Marine’s (NM) Automatic Trawl Winch System (ATW) and its AutoGen system for automatic power management of generators, said the company.
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Shetland seafood firm goes into administration
Shetland-based seafood company Isle of Shuna has gone into administration.
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NewsNorwegian seafood export growth continues
Except for October 2009, when figures were flat, Norway’s seafood exports have enjoyed uninterrupted growth for the last 22 months.
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Greenpeace calls for seafood industry to help save Ross Sea, Chilean seabass
Greenpeace has released a new report detailing what it describes as “the destructive fishing practices used to catch Antarctic toothfish”, also known as Chilean seabass, and exposes how the fishing industry is engaged in a “gold-rush” for toothfish in the remote waters of the Southern Ocean.
