Posts by Dave Edler
Scottish Sea Farms pay back furlough funds
Scottish Sea Farms has announced that it will repay all money received from the UK Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme as markets re-open and business performance begins to show signs of bouncing back. The company will pay back in full the furlough scheme funding, which provided vital support at the start of the COVID-19 restrictions,…
Read MoreBeijing gives salmon covid all clear
SALMON is not the source of a new Covid-19 outbreak in Beijing, Chinese authorities have declared. The announcement will come as a huge relief to fish farming companies in Scotland, Norway and the Faroe Islands who all export to China, because once a particular food or product becomes the subject of a scare the impact…
Read MoreNorwegian Gannet owner claims court victory
THE owners of the salmon slaughter ship Norwegian Gannet have won a major part of their long running processing dispute with the Norwegian fishery authorities. Bergen District Court yesterday delivered its judgement largely in favour of the Danish based Hav Line following a hearing last month, conducted in part by video link. Hav Line is…
Read MoreChinese salmon case sends industry shockwaves
SEAFOOD shares on the Norwegian Stock Market fell last night following reports that a number of supermarkets in the Chinese capital Beijing have removed salmon from their counters after a chopping board at a wholesale market used to portion the fish was found to be infected with coronavirus. Mowi stocks were down by 5.2 per…
Read MoreOslo backs down on salmon tax shareout
THE Norwegian government appears to have relented to pressure and agreed to pay the country’s fish farming communities millions of kroner extra under its new salmon tax plans. Last week in an unprecedented revolt up to 70 regional mayors protested to Oslo that its new proposals would leave them at least a billion kroner worse…
Read MoreOffshore giant arrives on schedule
HAVFARM 1, the giant offshore salmon farming platform, has finally arrived at its new home in Norway after a voyage of almost 15,000 nautical miles. Strapped to the equally large cargo carrier BOKA Vanguard the 33,000 tonne vessel sailed into her new base near the port of Hadsel in northern Norway at 7 am on…
Read MoreBREAKING: Potential USD $130 Million Maryland project for AKVA Group
The AKVA group ASA has today announced that it has signed a non-binding Term Sheet with the Norwegian company AquaCon AS for a potential supply of equipment, engineering and design to a new land based grow-out facility of 15,000 metric ton HOG salmon on Eastern Shore, Maryland, USA. The final contract, if awarded, is expected…
Read MoreHaafell to farm cod in Norway
AN Icelandic company has been given the go-ahead to expand cod farming on a limited scale in the north-west region of the country. The development is interesting because Iceland is better known around the world for its conventional trawler catching of wild cod, arguably its most important fishing activity and seafood export. Few appreciate it…
Read MoreHavExpo audience doubles online
A KEY aquaculture conference called off three months ago because of Coronavirus is attracting more than double its normal audience through a digital version of the event. HavExpo 2020 was due to have been held in the Norwegian city of Bergen at the end of March before it fell victim to the pandemic. The bi-annual…
Read MoreMowi heritage site plans stalled again
A MOWI plan to start fish farming on a world heritage site in the north of Norway has been put on hold – yet again Less than a month after it thought it had been given the all clear, the company has been told in a shock move by the Directorate of Fisheries to postpone…
Read More