Archive for December 2021
Long live the kingfish
November saw another milestone for The Kingfish Company and its planned recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) project in the north-eastern United States, with an important real estate deal. The purchase of land near Jonesport, Maine, is an important step towards making the project a reality, following the earlier approval of key permits allowing it to move…
Read MoreGlobal Seafood Alliance CEO Wally Stevens set to retire
Seafood industry veteran Wally Stevens is stepping down from his post of Chief Executive Officer with the Global Seafood Alliance. He will be retiring at the end of December and Brian Perkins, who joined GSA as Chief Operating Officer on March 1, will assume the role of CEO, as from 1 January. Formerly known as…
Read MoreWant not, waste not for Seafood Village
The UK’s largest fish processing complex has just set a new recycling record. In the past year it has successfully disposed of 240,000 polystyrene boxes – enough to fill more than one hundred 40-foot long vehicle trailers plus 6.2 tonnes of cardboard and 3,500 wooden pallets. The Seafood Village is a large business park focused…
Read MoreGrowing confidence
The customer and the environment are at the heart of Mowi’s latest initiatives In a year where holding steady may have seemed the logical plan, Mowi continued to forge ahead in 2021 with several initiatives that have one goal in focus: to increase customer confidence and loyalty for its business and products. The valued chain…
Read MoreLumpfish with personality
Lumpfish are deployed into salmon farms to help control outbreaks of sea lice, but just how effective these cleaner fish are in preventing parasites from infecting salmon is a matter of ongoing debate. While research has found salmon from cages stocked with lumpfish have infection rates 60–100% times lower than salmon from cages without lumpfish,…
Read MoreSeasonal salmon price surge arrives – finally
The long awaited pre-Christmas surge in fresh salmon prices seems to have materialised at last. They hit their highest level since mid-summer last week, rising by 6.5%, according to Statistics Norway. The average export price for chilled and fresh salmon in week 49 was NOK 65.06 per kilo., but with the Statistics Norway data normally…
Read MoreGrieg formally seals Shetland assets sale
Grieg Seafood last night formally completed the sale of its Shetland business to Scottish Sea Farms. The deal, reported to be worth £164m (NOK 1.9 bn), was cleared by the UK competition authorities a week ago. The sale assets include 21 salmon farms across Shetland and Skye, a freshwater facility along with a salmon processing…
Read MoreA perfect start
State of the art genetics are the key to rearing successful salmon It starts with optimal genetics. Founded in 1991, Benchmark Genetics has been a long-established and trusted provider of genetic material to the salmon farming industry and, more recently, the expanding global land-based sector. As a result of the long-term breeding programs, the salmon…
Read MoreRestoration hopes
An initiative aimed at reversing the decline of native oysters in Wales is under way 25,000 juvenile native oysters have been returned to waters in Milford Haven as part of a pioneering restoration project. The native oyster (Ostrea edulis) is a species of Principal Importance in Wales, providing many benefits such as removing excess nutrients,…
Read MoreNorth Atlantic Seafood Forum postponed to June
One of the seafood industry’s biggest conferences, the North Atlantic Seafood Forum, is being postponed from March to June next year because of concern over the Omicron variant of Covid-19. The 17th NASF will now take place on 21-23 June 2022. The venue, the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bergen, Norway – remains the same. NASF…
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