Seafood supply chain industry news covering seafood distribution, processing, imports and exports and market analysis.
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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By SeafoodSource staff
29 April, 2013
The Norwegian Seafood Council has issued figures for its exports to the
U.K. for the first quarter of 2013, and the council has called the
results “positive,” despite cod, haddock and prawn export values down
compared to last year.
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By Mark Godfrey, SeafoodSource contributing editor reporting from Beijing, China
29 April, 2013
Weaker demand from Japan — in part due to a weaker yen — is damaging China’s exports of eels to its neighbor.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 April, 2013
StarKist, a subsidiary of Dongwon Industries, has appointed Sam Hwi Lee president and CEO.
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By SeafoodSource staff
28 April, 2013
Nutreco announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire the remaining 67 percent of Egyption feed producer Hendrix Misr.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 April, 2013
Kegge BV has joined forces with Primstar BV, creating a strong shrimp distribution channel for machine peeled Dutch shrimp harvested and processed in Holland.
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By Sean Murphy, SeafoodSource online editor
25 April, 2013
In this video, SeafoodSource Editor Sean Murphy interviews Herwig Smeets, of Espera, while he demonstrates a machine that can read labels faster than the human eye.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 April, 2013
GlobalGAP members have selected 10 retail, foodservice, producer and supplier representatives to serve on the organization’s board for the 2013 to 2017 term.
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By Sean Murphy, SeafoodSource online editor
25 April, 2013
Simon Jahnke, U.K. sales director for Baader, talks about a slicing machine the company demonstrated for SeafoodSource at the 2013 Seafood Processing Europe exposition. On hand also is Michael Jurs, the machine's designer.
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By Sean Murphy, SeafoodSource online editor
25 April, 2013
SeafoodSource Editor Sean Murphy interviews Liz Plizga, show director
for the 2013 European Seafood Exposition. Plizga talks about how the
show has been going, and what the success means for the industry.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 April, 2013
A Spanish court accepted Spanish fishing company Pescanova's insolvency petition on Thursday and said it would name independent administrators to replace the board of directors.
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By Sean Murphy, SeafoodSource online editor
25 April, 2013
SeafoodSource Editor Sean Murphy shares some highlights of the 2013 European Seafood Exposition.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 April, 2013
Seafood industry veteran and founder of Ore-Cal Corporation, Bill Shinbane passed away recently.
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By Mark Godfrey, SeafoodSource contributing editor reporting from Beijing, China
25 April, 2013
China’s major fish feed firms are bullish about 2013 thanks to a reported jump in fish prices as consumers switch to seafood due to the ongoing bird flu crisis.
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By Sean Murphy, SeafoodSource online editor
24 April, 2013
SeafoodSource Editor Sean Murphy interviews the GAA's Dan Lee about a new, simplified series of standards announced this week.
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By Sean Murphy, SeafoodSource online editor
24 April, 2013
SeafoodSource Editor Sean Murphy and Seafood Business Editor Fiona
Robinson talk about Day 2 of the 2013 European Seafood Exposition..
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By Fiona Robinson, SeaFood Business editor and associate publisher
24 April, 2013
Chile has a new fisheries law that incorporates the needs of both the
public and private seafood sectors. The law was announced by Pablo
Galilea, Chile’s vice-minister of fishing, on 23 April during the
European Seafood Exposition in Brussels, Belgium.
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By James Wright, SeaFood Business senior editor
24 April, 2013
When the international seafood community gathers in Brussels for the world’s biggest seafood trade show next year, new names will appear on the banner outside the Brussels Exposition Center: Seafood Expo Global and Seafood Processing Global.
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By SeafoodSource staff
24 April, 2013
SeafoodSource Editor Sean Murphy talks with Dr. Nguyen Dzung, VP at the
Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors about a new
effort to combat quality problems with exports from Vietnam.
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By Sean Murphy, SeafoodSource online editor
24 April, 2013
European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanaki
spoke with SeafoodSource Editor Sean Murphy at the 2013 European Seafood
Exposition. In this interview, Damanaki spoke about the Olivier Roellinger culinary competition, the new EU common
fisheries policy, and the parties involved in
the ongoing mackerel dispute.
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By Sean Murphy, SeafoodSource online editor
24 April, 2013
European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Maria Damanaki
spoke with SeafoodSource Online Editor Sean Murphy at the 2013 European Seafood
Exposition. In this interview, Damanaki talked about the Olivier Roellinger culinary competition for
sustainable seafood, the new EU common
fisheries policy, and the parties involved in
the ongoing mackerel dispute.
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