Cliff White

Brazilian seafood firms Frescatto Company and Prime Seafood have merged, creating a company with more than BRL 1.6 billion (USD 320 million, EUR 294 million) in annual revenue and selling 32,000 metric tons (MT) of seafood. The combined entity is aiming for a 25 percent boost in volume to 40,000… Read More

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has decided not to approve a request to close the Bristol Bay red king crab saving area to commercial fishing.

The council considered a request from the Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers to close the 4,600-square-mile section of the eastern Bering Sea to commercial trawl, pot, and longline fishing at its February meeting, but ultimately decided not to tighten fishing regulations in this area.

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Trident Seafoods has offloaded its processing facility in Petersburg, Alaska, U.S.A. to E.C. Phillips & Son, a seafood company based in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Trident announced the deal 15 March, saying it had reached an agreement to sell its processing plant, bunkhouse, galley, and two housing units in Petersburg, Alaska, to E.C. Phillips & Son, with the transaction expected to close in April.

“E.C. Phillips & Son is a

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Cooke Aquaculture Pacific is dropping its appeal of the Washington State Department of Natural Resources’ decision to terminate two steelhead trout farming licenses it had in Puget Sound in 2022. Cook said it filed a motion with the Washington Superior Court to dismiss its appeal seeking to… Read More

A fishery representing 60 percent of the Argentine red shrimp catch has officially entered the assessment process for Marine Stewardship Council certification after more than a decade of work.

“This has been a very, very challenging project, to be honest,” Federico Angeleri, the commercial director at Mar del Plata, Argentina-based Grupo Veraz, a major participant in the fishery, said at an announcement at the 2024 Seafood Expo North

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Panama City, Panama-based cobia farmer Open Blue went through a difficult period during the Covid-19 pandemic but, after a retooling, is set to improve its fortunes, according to Open Blue CEO Dario Marchetti.

“We've rebuilt the team,” Marchetti told SeafoodSource at the 2024 Seafood Expo North America in Boston, Massachusetts. “We are taking a fresh approach, so we needed a fresh team; plus, some of our previous leadership

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Thistle Seafoods CEO Ryan Scatterty is looking for his company to be a disruptor in the U.S. retail space.

The Peterhead, Scotland-based, fifth-generation family-owned business has weathered Brexit, the Covid-19 pandemic, labor shortages, and global supply chain disruptions. Now, it’s ready to push further into U.S. retail channels, Scatterty told SeafoodSource on 10 March at the 2024 Seafood Expo North America in Boston, Massachusetts,

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Kuehnle AgroSystems (KAS) has received an investment from S2G Ventures as part of its USD 3 million (EUR 2.7 million) Series A2 funding round.

With the funding, the Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.-based microalgal innovation and production company hopes to reach commercialization of its microalgae-derived astaxanthin for use in aquafeed this year.

“KAS's fermentation breakthrough, natural strain development process, and sustainable production

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In his mid-40s, Irfan Thassim had a comfortable position as the CEO of a subsidiary of one of the largest and most admired companies in Sri Lanka. Thassim had been with his company – a major player in the country’s textile and apparel industry – for 20 years. While he worked hard, overall, life for Thassim was relatively easy.

That made Thassim uncomfortable.

“I was thinking, I've got a 15- to 20-year professional horizon

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Trident Seafoods is selling its processing facility in Ketchikan, Alaska, U.S.A. to Silver Bay Seafoods. Trident and Silver Bay are two of Alaska’s largest seafood processors. Trident announced in December 2023 it was aiming to sell its Ketchikan plant, along with its facilities in Kodiak,… Read More