Seafood supply chain industry news covering seafood distribution, processing, imports and exports and market analysis.
By Nicki Holmyard, SeafoodSource contributing editor
07 May, 2013
Salmon is a popular protein, and there are a lot of companies in a lot of countries producing it, but despite the wide field of competitors, new figures show that Scottish salmon has remained among the leaders.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 May, 2013
High Liner Foods on Tuesday reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2013.
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By James Wright, SeaFood Business senior editor
06 May, 2013
The continent’s largest companies — including Yihe Corp., High Liner Foods and Tri Marine — raked in more than USD 12 billion in 2012 sales.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 May, 2013
The Newfoundland and Labrador crab fishery may be brought to a halt for the second time this season because there's now a glut of crab being landed at wharves around the province.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 May, 2013
Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers informed on May 4
that foreign importers from the EU, the US and Japan have highly
appreciated Vietnam’s seafood quality.
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By Melissa Wood, SeaFood Business assistant editor
03 May, 2013
Move over, laptops. Tablets are rapidly taking over. In 2010, there were 13 million tablet users in the United States, and that number rose to 70 million at the end of last year, according to eMarketer.
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By SeafoodSource staff
02 May, 2013
Cermaq acquired an additional 165,000 shares in Copeinca for NOK 59.5 per share.
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By SeafoodSource staff
02 May, 2013
A pilot project next year will study the impact of moving the start of the fall lobster fishery in the Northumberland Strait between P.E.I. and New Brunswick.
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By Sean Murphy, SeafoodSource online editor
02 May, 2013
In this edition of SeafoodSourceTV, Editor Sean Murphy talks about a
surprise offer from Marine Harvest earlier this week to purchase Cermaq,
but only if Cermaq gives up its bid to buy Copeinca, the Peruvian
fishmeal and fish oil company.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 May, 2013
Having been denied permission to land lobsters, members of Maine’s groundfish industry are saying they may have to consider moving or expanding their businesses further south.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 May, 2013
Geveran Trading Co. announced today that it is adding to its holdings in
Marine Harvest with a NOK 900 million (USD 156.6 million, EUR 118.5
million) purchase of shares in the company.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 May, 2013
The Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Monitoring Service (Rosselkhoznadzor) says they have discovered salmonella, roots of listeriosis, and alive larva of threadworms in seafood imported from Norway.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 May, 2013
More than 40,000 pounds of Atlantic salmon fillets destined for the U.S. market were traded in the second transaction on the SalmonEx online platform.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 May, 2013
Marine Harvest announced today that it has priced a five-year, EUR 350
million (USD 462.6 million) offering of convertible bonds.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 May, 2013
After two years of operation, Redstone Seafood of Abegweit First Nation on P.E.I. is selling off its assets.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 May, 2013
Federal regulators have officially released new rules for the 2013 fishing year in New England that implement broad cuts in catch limits on key fish stocks.
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 May, 2013
Cermaq on Wednesday called Marine Harvest’s unsolicited takeover offer “inadequate.”
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By SeafoodSource staff
01 May, 2013
After months of research by a team at the University of Arizona, the Global Aquaculture Alliance on Wednesday identified the pathogen causing early mortality syndrome in farmed shrimp.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 April, 2013
Spanish fishing company Pescanova said on Monday it had appealed a court decision to remove the firm's board of directors as part of insolvency proceedings.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 April, 2013
Cermaq’s feed manufacturer, EWOS, is investing NOK 48 million to build a disease challenge facility in Chile.
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By Sean Murphy, SeafoodSource online editor
30 April, 2013
SeafoodSource Editor Sean Murphy interviews Hjortur Gislason, chairman
of Iceland-based Ogurvik, about allegations that Icelandic companies are
disrupting the mackerel stocks by overfishing.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 April, 2013
Norway-based Marine Harvest has indicated it intends to make an offer to
purchase its rival, Cermaq, but only if Cermaq gives up its bid to
purchase a controlling interest in Peruvian fishmeal and fish oil
company Copeinca.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 April, 2013
The Norwegian Institute of Marine Research has received data on the dissemination of snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) in the Barents Sea from its Russian partner organization PINRO.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 April, 2013
The Liberian Bureau of National Fisheries (BNF) announced that Dongwon Industries has paid a total fine of USD 2 million for two purse seine vessels involved in charges of IUU fishing.
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By Mar Claramonte, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Barcelona, Spain
29 April, 2013
More and more these days, Barcelona's marine-based businesses are connected to the service industry, but a traditional harbor-based company is still holding true to a centuries-old tradition of fishing.
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