Jason Holland

The E.U.’s dependency on imported fisheries and aquaculture products – now accounting for between 65 percent and 70 percent of its overall seafood supply – continues to rise.

Ahead of the European Commission’s proposal for autonomous tariff quota (ATQ) volumes for select fishery products in 2024 and 2025, including key whitefish species like cod, pollock, and hake, as well as shrimp and cephalopods, E.U. Fish Processors

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There are high hopes the long-term strategy recently unveiled for Scottish aquaculture will allow the industry to scale up its adoption of innovative technology, production methods, and sustainability measures. Recognizing the crucial role aquaculture plays in the country’s plans for a blue economy and ensuring food security, the “Vision for Sustainable Aquaculture,” published by the Scottish government 21 July, sets out overarching… Read More

Falling prices and demand coupled with rising feed and production costs have left global shrimp producers in dire straits, according to new analysis published by the global animal protein sector of Utrecht, Netherlands-based Rabobank.

Written by Rabobank Senior Global Specialist of Seafood Gorjan Nikolik, the report, “Global Aquaculture Update 2H 2023: Between a Rock and a Hard Place,” found the shrimp industry faced an extremely

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The European Commission (E.C.) is currently preparing an autonomous tariff quota (ATQ) proposal for volumes of select fishery products in 2024 and 2025. In response, companies like fishing industry body Europêche have highlighted that growing volumes of third-country-caught seafood have continued to enter the E.U. market with zero duties, while significantly increased controls placed on European fishers are infringing on fishers’

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The United Kingdom’s seafood market has endured numerous difficulties in recent years. A recent whitepaper titled “Building Seafood Consumer Confidence to Boost Consumption,” compiled by the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC), addresses some of the problems by proposing a public educational campaign to improve public confidence in buying seafood products. In an interview with SeafoodSource, NSC U.K. Director Victoria Braathen

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On 9 July, New Zealand signed a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union, a move that should provide a boost to New Zealand’s seafood industry when it goes into effect next year.

The FTA, which the two governing bodies signed a year after negotiations concluded in June 2022, will eliminate most export tariffs, ensure nondiscriminatory treatment for investors, improve market access for companies, and significantly reduce

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The European Union recently approved a contentious law that would entail member-states implementing restoration measures on at least 20 percent of Europe’s land and sea by 2030.

A revised draft of the E.U. Nature Protection Law (NRL) that included several amendments passed in a crunch vote – 336 votes in favor, 300 against, and 13 abstentions – in Strasbourg, France, on 12 July, 2023, moving on to trialogue negotiations under

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Businesses that serve Britain’s favorite takeaway food – fish and chips – are experiencing a crisis due to soaring prices, leaving these mostly independent, modest-sized ventures fearing for their future.

The U.K.’s National Federation of Fish Friers (NFFF) President Andrew Crook, who is also the owner of Skippers of Euxton, a fish and chips restaurant in Chorley, Lancashire, told SeafoodSource that he doesn’t worry

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The U.K. government has announced a new package of measures aimed at alleviating the struggles the country’s fishing industry has faced post-Brexit.

According to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra), the latest reforms – unveiled on 17 July, 2023 – will enable the industry to seize on opportunities from existing outside of the European Union. It said measures will involve the introduction of a

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Both the volume and value of farmed Atlantic salmon trade globally have soared over the past two decades, but the industry must onboard innovative technology if it wants to keep up with continued demand, according to Bergen, Norway-headquartered Mowi, the world’s largest salmon farming firm.

The 2023 edition of Mowi’s annual Salmon Farming Industry Handbook suggests the industry continues to be a “good fit” with

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