Seafood supply chain industry news covering seafood distribution, processing, imports and exports and market analysis.
By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
21 January, 2011
Aiming to secure large contracts for both countries’ seafood suppliers, Spain’s Minister for Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs Rosa Aguilar and Deputy Minister of China State Council Hui Liangyu have vowed to develop closer working relationships in respect to fisheries and agriculture.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 January, 2011
Marine Farms Vietnam, in collaboration with Nordic Group, will launch a major public-relations campaign in the coming months to promote farmed cobia to U.S. restaurants, retailers and consumers. The program will feature social media, a new website, cooking-demonstration videos and recipes.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 January, 2011
Wednesday’s star-studded state dinner at the White House honoring Chinese President Hu Jintao featured Maine lobster.
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By Lauren Kramer, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Vancouver, British Columbia
19 January, 2011
The Gulf oil spill had a devastating effect on the region’s oyster crop, destroying between 10 and 20 percent of the 250 million pounds of the bivalve traditionally produced by the state of Louisiana, according to John Tesvich, managing partner at Ameripure in Franklin, La., and chairman of the Louisiana Oyster Task Force.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
17 January, 2011
The new catch certification scheme enacted to prevent illegally harvested seafood from reaching the marketplace is paying off, according to EU Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 January, 2011
The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization on Friday released the first global guidelines for bycatch management and reduction of fishing discards.
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 January, 2011
U.S. shrimp imports totaled 127.7 million pounds in November, up an impressive 8.7 percent from November 2009, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported on Thursday.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
13 January, 2011
A drastic 93 percent reduction in the European Union whiting quota has caused anger and confusion among drag fishermen in Galicia, in northwest Spain, a region heavily dependent on the fishing industry.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
13 January, 2011
A proposal to block all mackerel landings into EU ports from Icelandic vessels is on the agenda at the European Economic Area joint committee meeting on Friday, but an implementation date has yet to be confirmed.
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By SeafoodSource staff
12 January, 2011
The United States is threatening to deny acccess to its ports or ban imports of certain seafood products if Italy, Portugal, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama fail to clamp down on illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 January, 2011
Cécile Rossi, an analyst at Paris-based market research firm Gira Conseil, talks to SeafoodSource Contributing Editor Lindsey Partos about a recent report on the emerging French sushi market.
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By Joanne Friedrick, SeaFood Business contributing editor
11 January, 2011
Like a song that is catchy, but not destined to become a smash hit, mahimahi has steadily climbed the charts in popularity, although no one is expecting it to surpass salmon or tilapia among fish lovers.
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 January, 2011
As do Mar brand tuna and mackerel on Monday became one of Italy’s first seafood products to be certified by Friend of the Sea. Generale Conserve, Italy’s second largest tuna company, produces the brand and recently moved its As do Mar production to its Olbia, Italy, facility, which operates on 100 percent certified green energy.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 January, 2011
The Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Nofima) on Thursday issued a report that found population and economic growth in Egypt is paving the way for Norway to increase its herring exports to the African country.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
07 January, 2011
The movement to establish a national seafood marketing program in the United States to bolster consumer awareness, and potentially consumption, of domestic seafood took a step forward last month.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
06 January, 2011
Frozen fish firm Findus France is sounding the alarm on coley stocks following the collapse of its sole supplier of the species.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 January, 2011
High Liner Foods on Tuesday announced that it has made an unsolicited offer to acquire the Icelandic Group for EUR 340 million (USD 449.4 million).
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 January, 2011
Mike Strain, Louisiana’s agriculture and forestry commissioner, is taking issue with a recent article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek that referred to the state’s catfish production facilities “despicable.”
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 January, 2011
Chicken of the Sea Frozen Foods last week announced the completion of its merger with Empress International as of 1 January.
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By Lauren Kramer, SeaFood Business contributing editor
03 January, 2011
There are a variety of slicing and portioning machines on the market, and most have a loyal following among the seafood processors who use them. Slicers manufactured by Ross Industries of Midland, Va., have been a fixture at High Liner Foods in Danvers, Mass., for more than 20 years.
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By Jason Holland, SeafoodSource contributing editor reporting from London
23 December, 2010
International foodservice distribution company Bidvest has acquired 100 percent of the share capital of UK-based foodservice supplier Seafood Holdings Ltd.
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By SeafoodSource staff
23 December, 2010
Tomas H. Heidar, Iceland’s chief negotiator for mackerel, on Wednesday responded to a proposed ban on Icelandic mackerel landings at European Union ports, saying that mackerel fishing in recent years has almost exclusively taken place within Iceland’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone.
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By SeafoodSource staff
23 December, 2010
Atlantis Japan on Tuesday announced that it acquired a 75 percent stake in Los Angeles tuna supplier Prime Time Seafood.
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By SeafoodSource staff
22 December, 2010
Marine Scotland’s objection related to the Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) certification of the Faroese Pelagic Organization North-East Atlantic mackerel fishery have been sent back to the certifier, Det Norske Veritas (DNV) for further review.
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By SeafoodSource staff
22 December, 2010
Scottish MEP Struan Stevenson is welcoming moves by the European Commission to ban Icelandic mackerel landings at European Union ports.
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