Jason Holland

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

More than eight months have passed since Susanne Arfelt Rajamand was named CEO of Nuuk, Greenland-headquartered Royal Greenland.

New to the seafood industry but familiar with the wider food sector – her background includes time spent with such giants as consumer goods company Unilever and dairying co-op Fonterra – the transition has been smooth, mainly because she inherited leadership of a company with tried and tested strategies

On 27 June, five years after the European Commission’s initial proposal to modernize the European Union fisheries control system, a preliminary agreement on new regulation received approval from the European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee.

The 20-8 vote advances a planned overhaul of E.U. fisheries control rules with the goal of strengthening measures to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, with compulsory

Large sections of the United Kingdom’s seafood economy continue to struggle in their efforts to build up and maintain the workforces necessary to optimize their operations, despite efforts from the government to ease labor burdens.

According to a March survey of 1,330 companies involved in the U.K. seafood industry by U.K. public body Seafish, recruitment challenges exist in both the fisheries and processing sectors, and on the catching

The epicenter of England’s seafood industry is enjoying a rare luxury – a wealth of skilled and ambitious new recruits available to meet the sector’s growth plans.

While the U.K. processing sector has historically struggled to optimize staffing levels amid negative perceptions about the tasks involved with the industry, recruitment challenges that increased further in the wake of Brexit and significant contraction of the E.U.

Norway’s continued increase in export value being almost entirely attributable to a weak krone is causing concern in the seafood industry, according to the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC).

The Scandinavian country exported NOK 13.1 billion (USD 1.2 billion, EUR 1.1 billion) worth of seafood in May 2023, an increase of NOK 816 million (USD 75.7 million, EUR 70.2 million) year-over-year. NSC CEO Christian Chramer advised in a press release

Norwegian land-based Atlantic salmon farmer Andfjord Salmon announced it will progress with build-out plans that will enable an increase in total production volume at its Kvalnes site, on the island of Andøya, to 40,000 metric tons (MT) head-on gutted (HOG) over the next seven years. 

The company, which has developed a farming system based on flow-through technology that it said capitalizes on the natural advantage of its access to

The U.K. government’s decision to add fishing jobs to the country’s official Shortage Occupation List (SOL) signified that many commercial operations in the seafood industry have struggled to plug gaps in the workforce and attract new talent.

Inclusion on the SOL, which came after a recommendation from the U.K. Migration Advisory Committee, means U.K. fishing companies will pay lower fees and face lower salary requirements in

Political leaders, fishing industry professionals, and environmental groups have all broadly welcomed the new provisional agreement reached between the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on the revised E.U. fisheries control system.

Confirmed on 31 May, 2023 – exactly five years after the proposal by the European Commission to improve the implementation of the common fisheries policy (CFP) – the revised rules

High inflation and input costs combined to negatively affect the Q1 2023 results of Reykjavik-headquartered Iceland Seafood International (ISI).

In particular, the high price of salmon in the period impacted ISI’s operations in Ireland and Spain, while the up-for-sale business in the United Kingdom, Iceland Seafood U.K., continues to dent the company’s income, according to ISI CEO Bjarni Ármannsson.

ISI saw its total group