Seafood supply chain industry news covering seafood distribution, processing, imports and exports and market analysis.
18 November, 2010
In an interview from London’s historic Fishmongers’ Hall, Dr. Tom Pickerell, director of the Shellfish Association of Great Britain, talks to SeafoodSource contributing editor Lindsey Partos about oysters, spider crabs and generating demand for underutilized species.
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By SeafoodSource staff
18 November, 2010
Alaska’s Bering Sea pollock fishery is in line for a quota increase in 2011. The National Marine Fisheries Service recently reported that the Bering Sea pollock biomass has more than doubled, jumping from about 4.6 million metric tons in 2010 to 9.6 million metric tons for 2011.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
18 November, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says seafood imports pose “no imminent health hazard to American consumers” but adds that 5 to 7 percent of the farmed seafood samples it tests annually contain trace amounts of an unapproved substance, measured in parts per billion or trillion.
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By SeafoodSource staff
17 November, 2010
The popular American TV show hammers imported seafood, despite the National Fisheries Institute’s efforts to defend imported seafood’s food-safety record and support the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s actions.
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By SeafoodSource staff
17 November, 2010
AmeriPure Processing Co. of Franklin, La., which was forced to shut down in June after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, on Wednesday announced that it has resumed its oyster-processing operations.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
16 November, 2010
Málaga’s fresh fish markets were left without product last week as furious fishermen dumped 5,000 kilograms of fish on the N-340 road running from Málaga to Cádiz in protest of new European Union regulations regarding the packing and transfer of seafood catches from the quayside.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 November, 2010
The European Commission on Thursday released its proposed fishing quotas for 2011. Of the 93 stocks it manages, the EC recommended cutting the quotas for 64 stocks, increasing the quotas for six stocks and leaving the quotas for 23 stocks unchanged.
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 November, 2010
China Marine Food Group on Tuesday released its third-quarter results, including a 69.2 percent increase in revenues to USD 22.7 million.
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 November, 2010
U.S. shrimp imports fell for the first time in three months in September, totaling 121.2 million pounds, down 0.7 percent from September 2009, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported on Wednesday.
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By SeafoodSource staff
09 November, 2010
FishSubsidy.org — a project of the Pew Environment Group and EU Transparency — on Monday launched an interactive map on its website allowing Europeans to track EUR 3.4 billion in EU fisheries subsidies.
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By Joanne Friedrick, SeaFood Business contributing editor
09 November, 2010
After coping with two years of quota cuts, the pollock industry is hoping to regain some ground with improved harvest levels in 2011.
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By SeafoodSource staff
08 November, 2010
Cumbrian Seafoods on Monday launched a new website and logo, reflecting a more contemporary style.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 November, 2010
Norwegian seafood exports reached NOK 43.1 billion (USD 7.5 billion, EUR 5.3 billion) in the first 10 months of 2010, just NOK 1.5 billion shy of the total in all of 2009, the Norwegian Seafood Export Council reported on Thursday.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
05 November, 2010
One of the United States’ top three shelf-stable seafood brands has been sold to London-based Lion Capital, which owns Findus Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
05 November, 2010
A group of 18 U.S. sea scallop companies — representing the bulk of U.S. scallop production — commits to fighting fraud by pledging to accurately label all scallop products and establishing a system of self-policing its members.
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By Joanne Friedrick, SeaFood Business contributing editor
05 November, 2010
The tilapia market is continuing to seesaw after the low supplies of 2008 were followed by a bounty in 2009. But when supplies are plentiful, prices fall and farmers respond cautiously when gearing up for the coming year.
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By SeafoodSource staff
04 November, 2010
Norway's Leroy Seafood Group's third-quarter turnover reached NOK 2.3 billion (USD 400 million, EUR 282 million), up from NOK 1.9 billion during the same period in 2009, making it Leroy’s highest quarterly result ever.
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By SeafoodSource staff
04 November, 2010
The United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on Thursday published a national policy that encourages the implementation of catch shares to rebuild fisheries and sustain fishermen, communities and working waterfronts.
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 November, 2010
Aker BioMarine on Tuesday announced that it experienced its first-ever positive operational cash flow during the third quarter of 2010.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
03 November, 2010
The latest global seafood report from Mercasa, Madrid’s wholesale food organization, has been released, breaking down Spain’s household and foodservice purchase and consumption patterns during 2009.
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By SeafoodSource staff
02 November, 2010
ChinaTrace on Tuesday announced that it has partnered with Seattle-based food-traceability company Trace Register to launch a seafood-traceability service in China.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 October, 2010
Oslo-based Aker Seafoods’ third-quarter operating revenues hit NOK 681 million, up from NOK 609 million in 2009, the company reported on Friday.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
27 October, 2010
This week’s announcement that Spanish seafood supplier Caladero is to undergo a 100 percent takeover by supermarket chain Mercadona is set to shake up the industry.
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By SeafoodSource staff
25 October, 2010
A U.S. Court of International Trade judge in New York has ruled that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) unfairly targeted U.S. shrimp importers with its enhanced bonding requirement (EBR), the National Fisheries Institute of McLean, Va., announced on Friday.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
25 October, 2010
Speaking to the European Parliament’s fisheries committee in Strasbourg, France, late last week, European Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki appealed to parliamentarians to make reform of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) a “top priority” over the next two years.
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