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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Ian Vázquez-Rowe is the director of Red Peruana Ciclo de Vida y Ecología Industrial (PELCAN) and a researcher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He is also a speaker at this year's IFFO Members Meeting in Miami, Florida, U.S.A., on 16 and 17 April 2024.
SeafoodSource: You are an expert in life-cycle assessments (LCAs). Why should seafood companies care about them?
Vázquez-Rowe: Companies should
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Vigo, Spain-based tuna specialist Atunlo has entered bankruptcy proceedings after it was unable to restructure its debt following its pre-bankruptcy filing in November 2023.
While its deadline for raising funds via its pre-bankruptcy filing isn’t until 20 May, the company opted to file for bankruptcy amid tensions between its ownership groups – Internacional de Pesca y Derivados (Inpesca) and Comercial Pernas (Coper), which
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Susanne Arfelt Rajamand has been the CEO of Nuuk, Greenland-based Royal Greenland since November 2022. It recently announced it posted a DKK 255 million (USD 36.8 million, EUR 34.2 million) pre-tax loss in 2023.
SeafoodSource: How would you describe Royal Greenland’s positioning right now?
Rajamand: We've been very successful in continuously growing our four species: prawns, snow crab, Greenlandic halibut, and cod. But, there's absolutely
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Japanese seafood conglomerate Nissui recorded an 8.2 percent bump in sales and a 21.1 percent increase in operating profit in its 2023 fiscal year, which ended 31 March 2024.
Nissui’s net sales in FY 2023 reached JPY 831.3 billion (USD 5.3 billion, EUR 4.9 billion), and its operating profit hit JPY 29.7 billion (USD 189.9 million, EUR 175.5 million). Its ordinary profit rose 15.1 percent to JPY 32 billion (USD 204.6 million, EUR 189.1
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is pushing for a revision to a 15-year-old determination that child labor is prevalent in Thailand’s shrimp sector.
Thai shrimp were added to the DOL’s annual “List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor” since 2009, which requires importers to go through a series of additional checks to ensure forced or indentured child labor was not employed to produce any shrimp they buy
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Australia has said it will conduct fishing patrols near Taiwan.
In an 8 May letter to the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization, Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry Fisheries Branch Director Mat Kertesz said it planned to “carry out boarding and inspection activities in the SPRFMO Convention Area” pursuant to the RFMO’s high seas boarding and inspection procedures.
“Australia
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In 2023, 62.8 million salmon died at Norwegian salmon farms, representing a mortality rate of 16.7 percent.
Most died of injuries caused by sea lice treatments, winter sores, or illness caused by salmon pancreas disease (SPD), amoebic gill disease (AGD), or infectious salmon anemia (ISA), according to a report from the Norwegian Food Safety Authority. The deaths represented almost USD 2 billion (EUR 1.9 billion) in lost income for the
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Taiwan’s seafood exporters are expecting China to lift its ban on Taiwanese seafood products later this year or in 2025, according to Yen and Brothers CEO Chihchieh (Jay) Yen.
China began imposing restrictions on Taiwanese seafood products in 2022 as part of a carrot-and-stick diplomacy strategy designed to encourage its reunification with Taiwan, which it considers a breakaway province.
A ban on Taiwanese grouper was lifted in December
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