Nicki Holmyard

Contributing Editor

Nicki Holmyard lives and breathes the seafood industry. As a specialist freelance writer for 25 years, she has travelled the globe to research in-depth articles, interviews and news stories on all aspects of fishing, aquaculture and processing for international journals and newspapers. She has contributed to books on sustainable seafood sourcing and the effects of climate change on the oceans, and acts as a communications consultant for leading fishing and aquaculture concerns. Nicki is also a director of Offshore Shellfish Ltd, which is developing Europe’s largest rope-grown mussel farm.


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February 14, 2022

Indre Harøy, Norway-headquartered Salmon Evolution AS has reported capex in line with budget and on-track performance for the first 300-gram smolt release at its land-based Atlantic salmon farm ... 

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February 11, 2022

Dongen, The Netherlands-based Protix, which raises black soldier flies for use in animal feed, announced on Tuesday, 8 February it has raised EUR 50 million (USD 57.2 million) in new equity to fund its international growth and research and development program ... 

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February 11, 2022

Noray Seafood said on Friday, 11 February it has raised EUR 16 million (USD 19.2 million) to accelerate expansion plans at its indoor shrimp farm in Medina del Campo, Spain.

Noray Seafood has developed a microbial technology for farming whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) in a land-based system, creating a controlled bacterial culture environment. Known as Gamba Natural until 2020, when the company rebranded, it now operates a fully

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February 8, 2022

Fredrikstad, Norway-based Fredrikstad Seafoods has won a decision from Norway’s Borgarting Court of Appeal ruling Gråkjær must compensate the company for a construction failure at its land-based fish farm in Øra, Norway.

Gråkjær was ordered to pay NOK 60.9 million (USD 6.9 million) plus interest, totalling more than NOK 77 million (USD 8.7 million), Bernt-Olav Røttingsnes, CEO of Fredrikstad

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February 1, 2022

Fish Farm International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gigante Havbruk, has applied for a permit to build a land-based farm in Northern Norway ... 

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January 27, 2022

Just six months after Norwegian aquaculture venture Norcod began commercial harvesting of its farmed cod, generating its first sales revenue, the company has landed a major contract with an unnamed Spanish retailer ... 

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January 24, 2022

As the Norwegian salmon-farming community increasingly turns towards land-based aquaculture using flowthrough, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), or hybrid systems, the emphasis is on volume production, to achieve the economies of scale necessary to make operations profitable. Andfjord Salmon, for example, is building out a farm in Kvalnes, Andøya, Norway with the potential to produce 90,000 metric tons (MT) of head-on, gutted

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January 14, 2022

“Changing the way that people in the U.K. buy seafood,” is the bold ambition from acclaimed restaurateur, chef, and author Mitch Tonks.

Tonks, CEO of the Rockfish Group, which operates a chain of seafood restaurants and fish shops in the south of England, kicked off 2022 with the launch of “Rockfish Seafood at Home.” The venture, which will be a “fishmonger for the 21st century,” is the result of a COVID-19

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December 28, 2021

SalmoTerra is the latest company to announce plans for a land-based salmon farming facility in Norway.

Phase one construction of the company’s first fish farm will start in early 2022, at Øygarden, near Bergen ... 

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December 23, 2021

Plans for the U.K.’s largest shrimp farm were released earlier this month by start-up company Land Ocean Farm.

Land Ocean Farm aims to grow whiteleg shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) in a biosecure, land-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS), eventually producing 1,000 metric tons (MT) of shrimp per year. The company is actively fundraising to finance the first stage and hopes to start construction in early 2022 at a site in Cheltenham,

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