London-based seafood writer and communications consultant Jason Holland has been a contributing editor to SeafoodSource.com since January 2010. Jason has more than 25 years of experience as a B2B journalist and editor – a career that has taken him all over the world. He believes he found his true professional calling in 2004 when he started documenting the many facets of the international seafood industry and he’s particularly proud of the strong, collaborative relationships he has formed at all stages of the supply chain.
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According to a recent YouGov poll, there is overwhelming public support in France for reforming the nation’s fisheries quota system, with 86 percent of French citizens calling for more fishing opportunities to go toward small-scale and low-impact fishers and 85 percent favoring fewer quotas being allocated to industrial-sized vessels.
NGO Oceana, which commissioned the poll, said the findings should put pressure on policymakers
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The Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) has named Bjørn-Erik Stabell its new U.K. director, who is planning on using his two decades of seafood experience to further strengthen seafood ties between the two countries.
Stabell served most recently at the industry trade body – which is owned by the Norwegian government and financed by the Norwegian seafood industry through an export levy – as its head of strategy and sustainability,
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At increasingly alarming rates, U.K. seafood consumers may be unknowingly buying seafood linked to illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and severe human rights abuses, according to a new report from the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) and Open Seas.
The NGOs’ report, titled “Criminal Catches: How to stop the supply of illegal seafood to the U.K.,” warns that the reason for this is that the U.K. has poorly
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According to new research from Dutch banking and financial services firm Rabobank, escalating trade disputes and geopolitical tensions are battering the global seafood industry, and the long-established supply chains for shrimp, salmon, tilapia, pangasius, and groundfish are facing unprecedented disruption.
The Rabobank report, “Caught in the Current: Geopolitics Threaten the Global Seafood Industry,” advises that some seafood
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Reykjavik, Iceland-headquartered Iceland Seafood International (ISI) has reported strong results for the first half of 2025, including a doubling of its year-over-year normalized profit before tax (PBT) to EUR 2.3 million (USD 2.7 million).
CEO Ægir Páll Friðbertsson attributed the solid six-month performance to strong demand and record-high prices for cod.
In a statement accompanying ISI’s H1 2025 results, Friðbertsson
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Faroe Islands-based salmon-farming firm Bakkafrost delivered “exceptionally strong” biological performance in its Faroese operations during the second quarter of this year, but low global salmon prices dragged on earnings and continued biological issues in Scotland forced the firm to put its U.K. operations under Faroese control moving forward.
Delivering the group’s Q2 2025 results, CEO Regin Jacobsen said he was dissatisfied
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Bergen, Norway-headquartered salmon-farming firm Grieg Seafood underwent big changes in the second quarter of 2025, a period in which the firm made the decision to sell its operations in Canada and Finnmark, Norway, to the Cermaq Group for NOK 10.2 billion (USD 1 billion, EUR 862 million).
Though the deal was not announced until mid-July, Grieg said in its Q2 2025 financial report that the firm’s board made the decision to sell off those
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Bíldudalur, Iceland-headquartered Icelandic Salmon, which owns fish-farming firm Arnarlax, was forced to conduct an accelerated harvest in the second quarter of 2025 in response to an outbreak of bacterial kidney disease (BKD) at two farming sites.
This resulted in a Q2 harvest of 4,000 gutted weight tons (GWT), compared to 700 GWT in the same period a year prior. Because the need to harvest quickly came at the end of the three-month
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Frøya, Norway-headquartered salmon-farming firm SalMar posted large decreases in operational EBIT in the second quarter of 2025, largely due to the downgraded quality of harvested fish in Central Norway and lower market prices that companies across the sector faced in the period, according to CEO Frode Arntsen.
SalMar Group posted operational Q2 2025 EBIT of NOK 524 million (USD 51.5 million, EUR 44.2 million), down compared to the NOK
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Klepp, Norway-based aquaculture technology firm AKVA group achieved record revenues and EBIT in the second quarter of 2025, along with an order pipeline that allows it to maintain its growth projections for the rest of the year and beyond.
AKVA recorded 15 percent higher revenues in Q2 compared to the same period last year – posting a record NOK 1.17 billion (USD 114.1 million, EUR 97.9 million). The firm also recorded an all-time high in
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