Chris Chase

Japanese seafood company Nissui is rebranding its salmon subsidiary Yumigahama Suisan to Nissui Salmon Co. effective 1 April 2026.  In a release, Nissui said the name change is aimed at strengthening its brand and expanding its domestic salmon-farming business. “By adopting a company name that includes the Nissui brand, the role of the group's salmon-farming business will be clarified, and the company will further promote the establishment… Read More

The Fish, Food, and Allied Workers Union (FFAW) has returned to negotiations on the minimum snow crab price for the upcoming fishing season in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, after the first day of talks was delayed.  FFAW first halted snow crab price talks on 24 March as it pushed for a delay until Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) announced the total allowable catch (TAC) for 2026. After the DFO set the TAC, FFAW again… Read More

Pontevedra, Spain-based integrated seafood company Nueva Pescanova posted a net profit in FY 2025 for the first time in multiple years. Nueva Pescanova posted a profit of EUR 1.1 million (USD 1.27 million) in FY 2025, up from the EUR 37.9 million (USD 43.7 million) loss it posted in FY 2024. However, the company’s FY 2024 only covered nine months as it changed reporting periods to align with the calendar year. For the full 12-month period, it… Read More

Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has announced the total allowable catch (TAC) for the 2026 snow crab season in Newfoundland and Labrador as the province’s harvester union continues to push back against the price-setting process. Canada Minister of Fisheries Joanne Thompson announced the 2026 TAC for snow crab in Newfoundland and Labrador will be 61,004 metric tons (MT), a decrease of 3 percent compared to 2025. Canada’s… Read More

A new report conducted by IFFO – the Marine Ingredients Organization indicates global fishmeal and fish oil production slowed in January and February 2026. The analysis – which IFFO performs monthly using data from its member companies – found most countries it analyzed produced less fishmeal and fish oil compared to the prior year, with only a few exceptions – mainly the “Norway/Denmark” region and the United States.  “Despite… Read More

The Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST) has launched a consultation for a major update that will expand its model beyond seafood into other types of commodities. GDST launched its technical standards in 2020, with the mission of creating interoperable traceability across multiple different parts of the seafood supply chain. The culmination of multiple years of effort, that standard has been adopted by a number of major seafood… Read More

During the 2026 Seafood Expo North America (SENA), Aquamar put on a show to highlight how it’s willing to take competition between the seafood industry and terrestrial proteins seriously.  The Rancho Cucamonga, California, U.S.A-based company hosted a “Protein Smackdown” at SENA’s Wave Makers’ zone, where the “Featherweight” took on the “Aquatic Assassin” in a wrestling match the company called “the ultimate showdown for… Read More

The inaugural North Atlantic Blue BioTech Summit offered several startups a chance to pitch their ideas and also gave investors who could make those ideas become a reality a chance to offer advice on what it takes to secure funds. “Investors who can make decisions and commit capital on behalf of their firm, which is at the partner level, have probably in the first two minutes made their decision,” Brady Bohrmann of Avalon Ventures – a San… Read More

Unibio has entered a joint venture with the Saudi Industrial Investment Group (SIIG) to build what it is calling the world’s largest single-cell protein plant in Saudi Arabia. The new plan, which will see an investment split of 80 percent SIIG and 20 percent Unibio, will use Unibio’s fermentation technology to produce its single-cell protein. Unibio has developed a method to convert methane from natural gas into high-quality protein… Read More

Premium Brands Holdings Corporation continued its string of record EBITDA in Q4 2025, but its seafood subsidiary Clearwater’s losses continued to widen. Premium Brands posted record revenue in Q4 2025, reaching CAD 1.9 billion (USD 1.38 billion, EUR 1.19 billion), which was up 15.7 percent over the same period of 2024. For the year, the company reached revenue of CAD 7.5 billion (USD 5.47 billion, EUR 4.71 billion) in 2025, a 15.5 percent, or… Read More