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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May 8, 2026
Scotland’s salmon-farming industry has recorded its highest survival rates for the opening quarter of the year ever, with industry figures pointing to sustained improvements in fish health, farm management, and production practices.
New data released by industry body Salmon Scotland shows survival rates reached 99.1 percent in March – the strongest performance for that month since farm-level reporting began in 2018. The figure edges above… Read More
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May 6, 2026
Norwegian land-based aquaculture company Salmon Evolution is steadily progressing through an important new chapter for the firm and is eyeing a significant ramp-up in production, according to CEO Trond Håkon Schaug-Pettersen.
Delivering Salmon Evolution’s Q1 2026 results in Oslo, Norway, Schaug-Pettersen said that “everything is progressing according to plan,” and with Phase 2 of its Indre Harøy hybrid flow-through salmon farm now in… Read More
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May 1, 2026
A new study has found that bottom trawling in European waters not only carries environmental concerns but heavy economic ones, as the practice costs Europe up to EUR 16 billion (USD 18.7 billion) annually once climate and ecological impacts are fully accounted for.
Published in the international journal Ocean & Coastal Management, the National Geographic-backed analysis claims to be the first to quantify the economic value of bottom trawling… Read More
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April 29, 2026
Scotland’s salmon-farming sector has intensified its lobbying efforts ahead of the 7 May Scottish parliamentary election, calling on candidates to commit to cutting regulatory delays and backing industry growth.
In a joint letter coordinated by industry representative group Salmon Scotland and signed by 60 producers and other businesses along the supply chain, the sector warned that current bureaucratic red tape is undermining competitiveness… Read More
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April 21, 2026
Bergen, Norway-headquartered salmon-farming firm Mowi harvested approximately 136,000 metric tons (MT) of gutted weight (GWT) farmed salmon in the first quarter of this year, which was 26 percent, or 28,000 GWT, more than in the corresponding period of 2025 and surpassed its previous guidance for the period by 8,000 GWT.
According to the group’s latest trading update, in Q1 2026, its Farming Norway operations harvested 75,500 GWT, which was up… Read More
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April 20, 2026
The global Atlantic salmon-farming industry is now in a period of constraint, with slowing supply growth colliding with shifting trade dynamics, increasingly price-sensitive demand, and, more recently, escalating tensions in the Middle East, according to Kontali analysts Lars Daniel Garshol and Philip Scrase.
Giving their latest Global Salmon Market Update in the lead-up to the 2026 edition of Seafood Expo Global, Garshol and Scrase explained… Read More
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April 17, 2026
The Scottish Parliament election taking place on 7 May could represent a “watershed moment” for Scottish salmon farming, according to TirMara Advisory Founder Anne Anderson.
Anderson, who is also the former chief officer of the regulatory portfolio at the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), insisted the next government has a “must-seize opportunity” to address longstanding structural issues in Scotland’s aquaculture… Read More
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April 16, 2026
A new research collaboration is aiming to tackle one of the U.K. shellfish sector’s most persistent issues – larval mortality in hatcheries.
With a focus on developing practical, scalable tools to improve larval survival rates, the project includes U.K. biotech company Esox Biologics, the University of Glasgow, and the University of Leicester’s phage research center, with industry input from the Association of Scottish Shellfish… Read More
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April 15, 2026
The European Commission has begun work on its Vision 2040 policy as it works toward establishing a long-term framework for the bloc’s fisheries and aquaculture operations.
The Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP) has welcomed the new policy, hoping it can spur production growth, especially as E.U. aquaculture production has stagnated by volume since 2000.
FEAP Secretary General Javier Ojeda told SeafoodSource the root cause for… Read More
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April 14, 2026
Fraud may affect as much as 20 percent of the world’s seafood trade, according to a new report from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The report, “Food fraud in the fisheries and aquaculture sector,” reviewed how fraud occurs across seafood supply chains and examined how emerging analytical tools, including DNA testing, isotope analysis, and nuclear magnetic resonance, can help regulators detect mislabeling and… Read More
