Archive for January 2023
Korea ambition
South Korea’s first commercial RAS (recirculating aquaculture system) farm is due to start production later this year – and it won’t be producing salmon. While Norwegian-owned Salmon Evolution plans to start construction on its RAS salmon farm joint venture early this year, BluGen will be producing another high value species, olive flounder. Read about BluGen’s…
Read MoreMove to help fishery and aquaculture vessels cut carbon footprint
UK industry body Seafish has created a “Vessels of the Future Forum” to help aquaculture vessels and fishing boats transition to net zero. The newly formed forum brings together representatives from the fishing and the fish farming industry, boat builders and surveyors, ports and harbours, engine manufacturers, research community and governments. It is being chaired…
Read MoreCod overtakes salmon in Norway fish escapes
Norway’s Fisheries Directorate says the pattern of farmed fish escapes is changing, with salmon no longer the main culprit. The highest number of escapes in the country’s fish farms last year was from cod farming facilities, it reports. The Directorate says the change is a signal that other types of aquaculture now need to be…
Read MoreHolmes Seafood is sold to Portugal’s Brasmar
Holmes Seafood, a long-established UK-based business, has been acquired by Portuguese group Brasmar. Holmes Seafood operates out of London’s Billingsgate Fish Market. Privately owned since its incorporation over 70 years ago, it employs around 40 staff and supplies independent frozen seafood wholesalers throughout the UK. Holmes specialises in supplying frozen seafood, including finfish, shellfish, prawns,…
Read MoreThe Blue Food Innovation Summit is back!
In May this year, the Blue Food Innovation Summit returns to London for another look at the future of aquaculture and ocean health. With our food system increasingly under stress from conflict and climate change, the Summit aims to put blue food, sustainable aquaculture, and restorative ocean practices at the heart of the global conversation.…
Read MoreCommunity Internet firm nets salmon farmers’ support
Salmon farmers Mowi and Scottish Sea Farms are supporting a community enterprise that aims to bring high-speed broadband to some of Scotland’s most isolated communities. The farmers are helping to fund community interest company HebNet which provides broadband coverage to parts of the Highlands and Islands that large providers do not cover. HebNet operates in…
Read MoreAquaculture trainees shortlisted for ALBAS awards
Two aquaculture trainees, from Bakkafrost and Scottish Sea Farms, have been shortlisted for Lantra Scotland’s Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills (the ALBAS). The awards, which take place on Thursday 9 March in Dunblane, recognise training and education excellence in land- and marine-based farming. Craig Johnstone, from Tarbert in Argyll & Bute, has been doing…
Read MoreUK’s Seafish makes its debut at Boston expo
Seafish is to host its first ever seafood pavilion at Seafood Expo North America (SENA). As the public body supporting the UK seafood sector, Seafish has said its presence in Boston will provide a showcase for the industry. The Seafish stand will be located across the aisle from the Seafood from Scotland pavilion. SENA (previously…
Read MoreAnother Grimsby seafood processor in trouble
Another Grimsby seafood processor has hit the buffers following a steep rise in fish prices over the past year. Cook & Lucas has closed its doors and gone into administration with the loss of around 80 jobs. Last month Iceland Seafood International, which employs almost 200 people, announced it is to close its Grimsby operation.…
Read MoreBig changes to salmon tax on way, says senior politician
There will be important changes to Norway’s controversial salmon tax proposal, a senior member of the Labour-Centre coalition has said. Geir Pollestad from the Centre Party and a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs said, in an interview with the newspaper Dagbladet, that the government would approach the issue with…
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