Cliff White

The Marine Stewardship Council and Alaska fishing industry representatives are pushing back against a decision by Ocean Wise to drop its recommendation of MSC-certified salmon fisheries in Southeast Alaska.

Ocean Wise, a Vancouver, British Columbia, U.S.A.-based nonprofit organization, operates what it describes as a certification program providing recommendations of fisheries and aquaculture operations that meet certain criteria, including

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Pakistan’s seafood exports dropped to USD 410 million (EUR 378.2 million) in value in 2023.

That total was down 17.4 percent from the 2022 fiscal year, in which Pakistani seafood exports reached USD 496.6 million (EUR 488.1 million), its record high, and far short of its USD 1 billion (EUR 922 million) goal.

Pakistan exported 200,709 metric tons of seafood in its 2023 fiscal year, down 6.4 percent from the 214,542 MT it exported in 2022,

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Bengaluru, India-headquartered seafood e-platform Captain Fresh has acquired Koral, a processor and distributor of branded, value-added salmon products based in Gdynia, Poland. Captain Fresh, a technology platform specializing in the seafood supply chain, has expanded rapidly across India and… Read More

The Falkland Islands Maritime Authority has confirmed 14 crew have been rescued, while four remain missing and nine perished following the sinking of the F/V Argos Georgia toothfish-fishing vessel on 22 July.

Thirteen of the rescued crew were rescued by the British patrol vessel Lilibet, which pulled them from a life raft, and another crewmember was saved by Falklands-flagged toothfish vessel F/V Robin M. Lee, which also found one

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The F/V Argos Georgia has sunk in the South Atlantic Ocean near the Falkland Islands, and the fate of its 27 crew members remains unknown. The vessel, which was fishing for toothfish, sprang a leak in heavy seas around 200 miles east of the Falklands on Monday, 22 July, and the crew was eventually… Read More

Peter Pan Seafoods Co-Owner Rodger May and Silver Bay Seafoods, one of the company’s biggest business partners and fierce rivals, are dueling for control of the company’s assets after Peter Pan entered receivership in April 2024.

On 19 July, the Stapleton Group, Peter Pan’s court-appointed receiver, backed Sitka, Alaska, U.S.A.-based Silver Bay’s bid to acquire all of Peter Pan’s canned salmon inventory –

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Authorities in Tamil Nadu, India, are presuming a gas leak is responsible the hospitalization of as many as 30 workers at a seafood-processing facility in Thoothukudi. The incident occurred at the Pudur Pandiapuram facility around midnight on Friday, 19 July, with employees complaining of… Read More

Seven missing Canadian fishermen have been rescued after their fishing vessel, the F/V Elite Navigator, caught fire and sank. Elite Navigator Captain Eugene Carter, as well as crewmen Jordan King, Toby Peddle, David Tiller, Andy Hunt, Robbie Firmage, and Harold Howell, abandoned ship on the… Read More

Kolding, Denmark-based salmon-processing firm Vega Salmon has posted its first profit in four years.

The company posted DKK 2.2 billion (USD 321 million, EUR 294.8 million) in revenue and DKK 67.7 million (USD 9.9 million, EUR 9.1 million) in gross profit between the 18 months stretching from July 2022 to the end of 2023. Its EBITDA during the period was DKK 19.5 million (USD 2.8 million, EUR 2.6 million).

Vega Salmon operates a

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Indonesia has signed a regulatory framework agreement related to quality assurance of seafood products exported to the U.S. The agreement, announced by Indonesia’s Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) on 12 July, will introduce a quality and safety assurance system for marine and… Read More