Cliff White

Several of the biggest Norwegian salmon-farming firms, which have been embroiled in price-fixing allegations since 2019, are facing a fresh lawsuit filed on behalf of consumers in the United Kingdom.

The collective action filed with the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal on 20 June demands GBP 382 million (USD 483.2 million, EUR 451.8 million) from Mowi, SalMar, Lerøy, Scottish Sea Farms, and Grieg for alleged collusion and unlawful

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- A project funded by the European Union will soon begin work on an effort to minimize bycatch of endangered, threatened, and protected (ETP) marine species. The Coordinated Development and Implementation of Best Practice in Bycatch Reduction in the North-East Atlantic, Baltic, and Mediterranean… Read More

OBI Seafoods and its CEO, John Hanrahan, have filed documents backing a request from Peter Pan Seafoods Co-Owner Rodger May to amend the receivership it entered by court order in April 2024.

Peter Pan entered receivership on 25 April by Wells Fargo, its largest creditor. May, who is also Peter Pan’s president and chief growth officer, has been fighting with the Stapleton Group, a financial consultancy firm appointed as controller

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Worldwide Fishing Company (WOFCO) has acquired Domaio, Pontevedra, Spain-based seafood firm Fandicosta out of bankruptcy.

The transaction, rumored since 2023, was finalized 17 June, according to Faro de Vigo. It will make WOFCO, which amassed EUR 412 million (USD 441 million) in sales in 2023, the third-largest seafood company in Spain behind Nueva Pescanova and Grupo Profand. Fandiscosta had EUR 136 million (USD 145.6 million) in sales in

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Having attracted significant new funding, Enifer and Kuehnle AgroSystems are aiming to play larger roles in the aquafeed alternatives sector.

Espoo, Finland-based Enifer, a biotech firm concentrating on producing its PEKILO fungi-based protein product for aquafeed and other uses, recently received EUR 36 million (USD 33.5 million) in investments, including a EUR 15 million (USD 14 million) Series B equity funding round with participation from

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As summer begins in Norway, most of the country’s largest salmon farmers are coping with outbreaks of infectious salmon anemia. Norway has struggled with a higher-than-normal number of infectious salmon anemia (ISA) and bacterial kidney disease (BKD) cases over the past year. On 17 June,… Read More

Seafood Exchange of Florida President and CEO Travis Larkin is 100 percent committed to Ecuadorian shrimp.

Larkin, who took over the Wake Forest, North Carolina, U.S.A.-based value-added shrimp purveyor in 2008, works nearly exclusively with a single shrimp-farming and -processing firm in Ecuador, and he doesn’t foresee making any changes to that setup.

“We've worked in other parts of the world through the years, but we've just

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An Alaska fisherman has pleaded guilty to illegally killing a sperm whale in 2020. Dugan Paul Daniels, 54, of Coffman Cove, Alaska, U.S.A., violated the U.S. Endangered Species Act by having one of his crew shoot a sperm whale and then attempt to ram it with their vessel, the F/V Pacific… Read More

Recent assessments of Atlantic cod stocks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Gulf of Maine present a dire portrait of their commercial future. In the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, which touches the Canadian provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and… Read More

Hope in the Water, a three-part documentary series profiling innovators in blue food technology, premieres 19 June on PBS. In advance of the release, PBS and Fed by Blue, an international campaign to promote responsibly produced blue food, hosted dual “blue carpet” events in Los… Read More