Cliff White has been the executive editor of SeafoodSource since 2016. Previously, he worked as the senior business reporter for the McClatchy-owned Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit and the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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The U.K.’s seafood-processing sector has struggled through some difficult times lately, but local advocates are pushing for a revival.
Troubling signs for the sector have included a plan introduced by Young’s Seafood to demolish its Marsden Road factory, following the company’s closure of the facility in June 2023. Iceland Seafood International also sold off its U.K. assets, including its Grimsby plant, for just GBP 1,000 (USD
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Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based Trident Seafoods is in the middle of sale negotiations for its Kodiak, Alaska, plant but will operate it through Alaska’s second pollock season.
In December 2023, Trident announced it was divesting from its plants in Kodiak, Ketchikan, Petersburg, and False Pass, as well as the South Naknek Diamond NN cannery facility and its support facilities in Chignik, as part of a comprehensive,
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Pure Salmon has recommenced construction on its land-based salmon farm in the U.S. state of Virginia, and Nordic Aquafarms has received critical permits needed to advance its project in California.
Nordic Aquafarms announced on 22 May it has received all three coastal development permits needed to move forward with its recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facility planned at the site of a former paper mill near the town of Eureka, in Humboldt
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Martin Rasmussen is the CEO of Andfjord Salmon, which is building a flow-through land-based salmon farm on the island of Andøya, in the Arctic archipelago of Vesterålen, Norway. It recently concluded a NOK 350 million (USD 32.9 million, EUR 30.3 million) private placement and has applied to conduct a subsequent offer of shares on the Euronext Oslo stock exchange, where it is listed. On 29 May, the company reported an operating loss
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Bakkafrost will be culling 180,000 salmon after discovering infectious salmon anemia (ISA) at one of its farms in the Faroe Islands.
Bakkafrost CEO Regin Jacobsen confirmed ISA had been detected in water tested after being used to host salmon being treated for sea lice.
“There are two units which are infected. They will be harvested within the next couple of days,” Jacobsen told SeafoodSource.
Around 180,000 Atlantic salmon, weighing
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Newlat Group, a publicly listed multi-channel player in the branded food segment, is acquiring Princes Group from Mitsubishi for GBP 700 million (USD 894 million, EUR 822.3 million).
Headquartered in Liverpool, U.K., and managed from the Netherlands, Princes is one of the U.K.’s largest food and beverage firms, and its range includes a variety of shelf-stable tuna, sardine, salmon, and mackerel products.
Reggio Emilia, Italy-based Newlat
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Andfjord Salmon CEO Martin Rasmussen confirmed High Liner Foods’ participation in a NOK 350 million (USD 32.9 million, EUR 30.3 million) private placement concluded 21 May.
“The net proceeds from the private placement will be used to expand our production capacity at Kvalnes, ramping up biomass, and for general corporate purposes,” Rasmussen told SeafoodSource.
Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, Canada-based High Liner Foods announced it
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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging Clackamas, Oregon, U.S.A.-based Pacific Seafood engaged in anticompetitive practices concerning the Dungeness crab fishery on the U.S. West Coast.
Filed in March 2023 in the U.S. District Court of Northern California by commercial fisherman Brand Little, the suit alleged Pacific Seafood artificially suppressed the price paid to fishermen for Dungeness crab through a “multipronged strategy of
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