Cliff White is the executive editor of SeafoodSource. He has 15 years of experience as a professional journalist, including serving 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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Pancreatic disease has been detected at farming sites operated by Mowi and its subsidiary Nova Sea in Norway.
Pancreatic disease (PD) can cause lower growth in farmed salmon as they lose hunger and become more susceptible to other diseases, often leading to death.
Mowi’s 10447 Mefaldskjæret and 31857 Blomsøråsa sites in Alstahaug municipality in Nordland county were confirmed to have incidences of pancreatic disease by
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A lawsuit alleging Inland Seafood’s financial situation was misrepresented during a sale of the company to its employees in 2016 was dismissed on 5 December 2023.
US. District Court Judge Leigh Martin May ruled in favor of a motion by Inland Trustee James R. Urbach to dismiss the case on the grounds the plaintiffs did not fully pursue remedy of their problems with the employee stock ownership plan before filing suit.
The suit, filed 18
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The Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers (GAPP) will receive more funding to continue its “Wild Alaska Pollock” campaign in 2024.
Since enlisting a new board of directors and expanding its annual budget to USD 4 million (EUR 3.4 million) in 2019, the organization has built awareness and demand for its marquee product through the use of the “Wild Alaska Pollock” tagline.
In its next fiscal year, which
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Pure Salmon Technology has acquired HyFlow, a waterborne feed technology, from Graintec, an aquafeed solutions company that filed for bankruptcy in August 2023.
Based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Pure Salmon Technology was created out of the merger of Pure Salmon and the Norwegian RAS division of Krüger Kaldnes, which 8F acquired from Veolia in June 2021.
Pure Salmon Technology CEO Kent Kongsdal Rasmussen said the HyFlow acquisition
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The National Fisheries Institute, a trade group representing the U.S. seafood industry, has agreed to house the Global Shrimp Council, which is leading an effort to initiate an international shrimp market campaign.
Formally launched at the Global Shrimp Forum in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on 6 September 2023, the Global Shrimp Council is a producer-led promotional body created to market and encourage shrimp consumption globally,
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SalMar Aker Ocean has acquired 100 percent of the shares in Arctic Offshore Farming from SalMar.
In 2018, Norway Royal Salmon (NRS) was granted eight development permits for the development of Arctic Offshore Farming, with its facilities designed for areas with harsh weather conditions where standard farming equipment cannot be used. Arctic Offshore Farming has installed sea cages at an exposed location outside Tromsø in Northern Norway,
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Aquapurna and Billund Aquaculture have begun work on the world’s largest high-intensity recirculating aquaculture system shrimp farm.
Design of the farm is advancing and construction will begin in January 2024 on the 18,000-square-meter facility at the Sigmundshall Industrial Site near Wunstorf, Germany. Aquapurna and Billund, which formalized their joint venture in 2022, said they hope to introduce the first shrimp larvae into the farm by
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Circle Seafoods and Northline Seafoods are hard at work building out floating processors they plan to debut in time for Alaska’s salmon runs in 2024.
Northline Seafoods is building the Hannah in Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A. to buy, process, ship, and store salmon caught in Bristol Bay on a single vertically integrated platform. The vessel, which is being constructed from an existing barge hull that was towed from the U.S. Gulf
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A federal judge in Canada has reserved judgment on a CAD 5.25 million (USD 3.8 million, EUR 3.6 million) settlement in a price-fixing lawsuit against Norway’s biggest salmon farmers.
Cermaq, Grieg, Lerøy, Mowi, Nova Sea, and SalMar were sued in March 2020, with plaintiffs Irene Breckon and Gregory Sills claiming the companies engaged in a conspiracy to fix the prices of farmed Norwegian salmon sold in Canada from April 2013 and
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Ensenada, Mexico-based Baja Aqua-Farms has received an investment from a group of entities that includes Continental Grain Company, Cultiba, Equity Group Investments, and Castle Harlan.
Founded in 2000, Baja Aqua-Farms conducts tuna ranching in Baja, Mexico. The vertically integrated company has 1,210 hectares of farming locations and conducts year-round ranching to produce fresh and frozen sashimi-grade Pacific bluefin tuna, which it exports to
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