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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Plans to bring a transformative salmon farm to Loch Long in Scotland are being opposed by officials representing the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, despite the park authority identifying the project as being “of national significance to Scotland.”
Officers representing the park recommended the park's board refuse Loch Long Salmon’s plans for Scotland's first semi-closed containment
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Bergen, Norway-headquartered Grieg Seafood is to cull approximately 1 million salmon at farms in its Finnmark production region following the discovery of an infection-causing parasite.
In a filing with the Oslo Børs, Grieg said it had been notified by the Norwegian Food Safety Authority that it is required to cull the fish in eight single pens on two farms in the Finnmark region, due to detection of Spironucleus
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The North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group (NAPA) has joined forces with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to urge "tangible action" on the sustainable management of Northeast Atlantic pelagic stocks.
The collaboration comes after a previous effort from NAPA to urge alignment with catch-limit advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). Ahead of the mid-October 2022 Coastal States meetings,
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Aquaculture trade body Salmon Scotland has increased its membership to 41, with six new supply chain businesses joining in the last three months.
Having expanded its reach to cover more of the farmed salmon supply chain, Salmon Scotland’s membership has more than tripled since the start of 2022.
With a geographical spread from Dumfriesshire to Shetland, and across the central belt from Broxburn to Cumbernauld, the six new members are
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The European Union’s Fisheries Council has reached an agreement on next year’s fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea.
Confirming the package decided at the Council’s latest meeting in Luxemburg, the European Commission said the Baltic Sea continues to struggle with severe environmental pressures and challenges to its ecosystems, with its fish stocks in mostly poor condition.
Under the new agreement, existing fishing
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The latest catch-limit advice for Northeast Atlantic pelagic stocks issued by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) show that fishing pressure is above sustainable levels and that further reductions are required, according to the North Atlantic Pelagic Advocacy Group (NAPA).
ICES advised the 2023 catch for Northeast Atlantic mackerel should be no more than 782,066 metric tons (MT); a 1.6 percent reduction from its 2022
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Bergen, Norway-headquartered Mowi saw larger harvests and higher earnings in Q3 2022 compared to Q3 2021, in part thanks to big harvests at its Norwegian operations.
Mowi achieved a company-wide salmon harvest of 134,000 metric tons (MT) in the third-quarter of this year, representing a volume increase of 17,000 MT compared with the corresponding period of 2021 and 2,000 MT more than its previous guidance for the period. According to
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Despite having just one complete production period under its belt, Trondheim, Norway-based aquaculture venture Norcod said it has seen its fish already amass admirers in a number of important seafood markets.
The GlobalG.A.P.-certified producer, which was established in 2018, only started the second harvest period for its farmed cod in October, and it's scheduled to run through June 2023. But its parent company, Copenhagen,
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The company announced that a proposed expansion of a smolt plant in Lebesby, Finnmark, Norway – which the company estimated represents a NOK 1 billion (USD 93 million,
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Already firmly established as the world’s most-traded animal protein, with commerce valued at 3.6 times the size of beef, five time that of pork, and eight times greater than poultry, the global seafood trade flow added a further USD 13 billion (EUR 13.4 billion) to its value in 2021, climbing to a new high of USD 164 billion (EUR 169 billion), according to the latest industry report compiled by Rabobank.
According to the Dutch
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