Archive for October 2018
Monday, October 8, fish prices from Grimsby market
FISH PRICES MONDAY 8TH OCTOBER 2018 TOTAL BOXES FOR SALE: 2829 TODAY KILOS: 141450 WE DO NOT BUY OR SELL FISH THIS IS A ROUGH GUIDE ONLY – Prices are in £ per kilo Vessels Overland Norwegian Icelandic Other – 204 – 2347 278 SPECIES Size Low High Low High Low High COD 1 XL…
Read MoreMonday, October 8, fish prices from Peterhead market
PETERHEAD FISH PRICES. Mon 08.10.2018 Boats 13 Consignments 11 Boxes 8262 Cod Large £3.70 – £5.00 Cod Medium £3.20 – £3.60 Cod Selected £3.00 – £3.40 Cod Small £1.60 – £2.60 Haddock Large £3.00 – £3.25 Haddock Medium £2.90 – £3.15 Haddock Selected £2.20 – £3.00 Seed £1.75 – £2.80 Chippers 74p – £2.00 Metros…
Read MoreMacduff Shellfish nets £6.28m profits
MACDUFF, the UK’s largest shellfish processor made a pre-tax profit of £6.28 million last year, according to the company’s latest financial results. This is in spite of various challenges facing the fishing industry in general, not least the uncertainty around Brexit. The Peterhead based company, bought by Canada’s Clearwater Seafoods for £100 million three years…
Read MoreNorway catchers get more for less
NORWAY may be exporting less cod in volume terms this year, but its fishermen are netting more money for whatever they sell, new figures from the Norwegian Seafood Council show. And despite this, demand among UK buyers is on the rise. Depending on whether it is fresh or frozen, the price of cod has risen…
Read MoreTighter salmon regulation on the way says Sepa
SOME 81.4 per cent of Scotland’s salmon farms achieved ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ environmental ratings for last year from Sepa, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. The just published compliance figures for all regulated Scottish businesses and organisations showed salmon farms’ compliance levels dropped slightly, from a peak of 85.75 per cent in 2016. Non-compliant fish farms…
Read MoreFishUpdate Briefing Friday October 5th
WATCHING FISH MAY “CALM NERVES” CAN a cod keep you calm? Scientists at The Deep in Hull are trying to prove if watching fish, turtles and sharks is beneficial for our health. Experts from York and Exeter universities have been carrying out the experiment on visitors to the giant aquarium. Volunteers wear headsets, which track…
Read MoreEnvironment is aquaculture’s ‘marketing tool’
SCOTTISH environment minister Roseanna Cunningham highlighted the importance of a healthy environment to the aquaculture industry as she opened the ASSG conference in Oban today. The sector as a whole must ‘demonstrably’ take its environmental responsibilities seriously, she told delegates at the two-day event. ‘When we market and sell our produce, however and wherever it’s…
Read MoreNorwegian salmon exports stall
EXPORTS of Norwegian salmon stalled slightly last month, but for the year so far they are still well up in both volume and value. Sales during September totalled 88,200 tonnes and were worth NOK 5.7 billion, down eight per cent in volume terms but with the value at the same level as September 2017. The…
Read MoreShock as Iceland salmon licences revoked
TWO Icelandic coastal communities have expressed shock and dismay after licences to allow a major expansion of fish farming were suddenly revoked. Late last year, the Icelandic Food Administration gave the green light to the companies Fjarðarlax (owned by Arnarlax) and the Arctic Sea Farm to produce up to 17,500 tonnes of salmon in Patreksfjordur…
Read MoreMSPs ‘to demand tougher salmon farm rules’
THE Holyrood inquiry into the future of salmon farming in Scotland will demand extensive changes to how the industry is regulated, according to a report in the Sunday Post yesterday. Quoting \’a source close to the [Rural Economy and Connectivity] committee\’, which conducted the probe, the Post reported that MSPs are concerned about the industry’s…
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