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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Bergen, Norway-headquartered salmon-farming firm Mowi harvested a record amount of salmon in the third quarter of 2024.
Mowi harvested 161,000 metric tons (MT) of gutted weight (GWT) salmon in the third quarter of this year, which it confirmed was an all-time high for the period. The total was 500 MT ahead of its previous forecast, and up from Q3 2023’s harvest volume of 135,000 MT.
According to the group’s latest trading
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Anti-salmon farming groups and media outlets in the U.K. have recently decried the number of fish mortalities recorded on fish farms in Scotland, but the country's aquaculture industry is defending its practices.
The Scottish Parliament's Rural Affairs and Islands Committee has been conducting an inquiry into how Scotland’s salmon farming has changed since a 2018 report raised a number of environmental concerns.
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Salmon firms Grieg, Bakkafrost, and Lerøy have released trading updates for the third quarter of 2024, a month before they all release full results for the period.
According to Bergen, Norway-headquartered Grieg Seafood’s latest trading update, the firm harvested approximately 17,700 gutted weight tonnage (GWT) of Atlantic salmon in the third quarter of this year, representing an increase of 5,500 GWT on the corresponding quarter of
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Nearly three-fourths of seafood consumers say origin labeling influences their purchases of seafood, according to recent research from the Norwegian Seafood Council.
Recognizing this trend, a number of governments around the world are legislating for greater transparency across supply chains.
According to the NSC, this pressure from both consumers and governments is causing the seafood industry to find ways it can provide consumers with
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Scotland’s salmon-farming industry is facing a “deliberate, orchestrated, and coordinated campaign by anti-salmon farming extreme activists,” according to Salmon Scotland Chief Executive Tavish Scott.
Addressing the Rural Affairs and Islands Committee of the Scottish Parliament, which is conducting an inquiry into the industry’s practices, Scott said Scotland’s salmon-farming companies and supply chain businesses
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Ecuador's shrimp exports broke another volume record in 2023, and 2024 started much in the same vein, but the world’s leading shrimp supplier has seen trade slow as the year is hitting its final quarter, according to data compiled by Global Shrimp Forum Foundation Managing Director Willem van der Pijl.
Sharing key trade trends that are shaping the global shrimp industry at the 2024 Global Shrimp Forum (GSF), held in Utrecht, the
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At its 2024 Capital Markets Day on 26 September, Mowi announced it is looking to gradually raise its annual farmed Atlantic salmon harvest by an additional 100,000 metric tons (MT) over the next five years.
The Bergen, Norway-headquartered firm's plan for the next half-decade also include increasing its revenues by EUR 3 billion (USD 3.3 billion) and reducing costs by up to EUR 400 million (USD 445.5 million), according to CEO Ivan
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As aquaculture operations around the world continue to grow their output, the availability of protein for use in feed is becoming tight.
As a result, sectors of the industry like shrimp farming are increasingly considering insect meal for use in feed.
U.S. Grains Council Regional Aquaculture Consultant Ronnie Tan, during the 2024 Global Shrimp Forum (GSF), held in early September in Utrecht, Netherlands, said that since 2000, the volume of
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