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Asmak Muscat International has doubled its sales since it was founded in 2018 and is planning to open a second processing facility in Dukm, Oman. The Muscat, Oman-based firm processes horse mackerel, chub mackerel, Indian mackerel, yellowtail scad, sardine, skipjack tuna, croaker, and grey mullet,… Read More

Levi Hanssen is the brand and marketing manager for Hiddenfjord, a salmon-farming firm based in Sørvágur, Faroe Islands.

SeafoodSource:  Hiddenfjord is known as a family-owned company, which is rare among salmon-farming firms. Can you talk about the company’s history, its size, and its family ties?

Hanssen: Hiddenfjord is a family-owned company founded in 1929. It started as a whitefish-processing company with the

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The vast oil reserves buried around the Falkland Islands may represent the future of its economy, but fishing remains its biggest economic driver, accounting for 65 percent of the islands’ gross domestic product in 2023.

“It remains a massive deal,” Falkland Islands Fishing Companies Association Executive Secretary James Bates told SeafoodSource at the 2024 Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, Spain on 23 April.

The islands,

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Processors are going out of business, fishermen are scrambling to upgrade their onboard freezing equipment to meet higher standards, and politicians are at loggerheads regarding a proposed aid package. 

This is the current situation of the salmon industry in the U.S. state of Alaska, on the cusp of the 2024 season.

Ekuk Fisheries, founded in 2005 as a processor of set gillnet-caught fish harvested by beach fisherman in Ekuk, Bristol Bay,

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Icelandic land-based flow-through salmon-farming startup Laxey has attracted a further EUR 40 million (USD 43 million) in funding and has signed a partnership with Skretting. The funding came from Blue Future Holding, which is a part of German family-owned conglomerate EW Group, as well as… Read More

Norwegian private equity fund Bluefront Equity has launched a second investment fund focused on seafood sustainability. Bluefront’s original fund, Bluefront Capital I, was opened in 2020 by former Broodstock Capital partners Kjetil Haga and Simen Landmark, with a focus on small- and… Read More

Phillips Foods plans to broaden its product range to include snow crab and lobster following the acquisition of two seafood companies in Eastern Canada.

The Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.-based crabmeat specialist recently acquired the Pêcheries Bas-Caraquet Fisheries facility in Bas-Caraquet, New Brunswick, as well as the assets of South Shore Seafoods in a restructuring deal encompassing multiple plants in the province of Price Edward

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Agen, France-based seafood firm Mericq has acquired Maison Blanc, the producer of Gillardeau oysters. Led by the Gillardeau family, Maison Blanc farms oysters in western France and southern Ireland, and has developed a premium niche for the brand in China. It has fought a prevalence of… Read More

Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based American Seafoods has released its 2023 sustainability report, in which it claims to have achieved a 99 percent target catch rate in the Alaska pollock fishery.

The statistic rebuts the argument made by representatives of other Alaska fisheries claiming Alaska pollock trawling bycatch is negatively impacting the U.S. state’s salmon and crab populations.

“I am absolutely thrilled with the progress

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Bergen, Norway-headquartered Pelagia has acquired 100 percent of Cornwall, U.K.-based seafood trading firm Ideal Foods Limited. Pelagia, a joint venture between Austevoll Seafoods and Kvefi, is a leading producer of pelagic fish products for human consumption, as well as animal feeds, protein… Read More