Seafood supply chain industry news covering seafood distribution, processing, imports and exports and market analysis.
By SeafoodSource staff
18 May, 2010
This is the Singapore-based company’s second acquisition in less than two weeks, making it the sixth largest fishmeal producer in Peru.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
18 May, 2010
Disease continues to threaten France’s oyster crop, but the anticipated drop in production this year may not drive up oyster prices at the consumer level.
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By SeafoodSource staff
17 May, 2010
The Spanish seafood producer records an 11.5 percent increase in pre-tax profit and 11.6 percent rise in EBITDA.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
17 May, 2010
Damanaki wants to see a tougher method applied to setting fishing quotas and days at sea to progress toward “responsible fishing.”
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By SeafoodSource staff
14 May, 2010
The production shortfall in Chile is felt in the U.S. market, as U.S. salmon imports slip 9 percent in the first quarter of 2010.
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By SeafoodSource staff
13 May, 2010
The National Federation of Fish Fryers fires back at the Daily Mail after it claims that wild seafood will be a rarity in 10 to 20 years.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
13 May, 2010
The Spanish region is encouraging its seafood professionals to control the traceability of their products and devise new marketing platforms to increase economic opportunities.
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By SeafoodSource staff
12 May, 2010
The company’s North Pacific trawling operations and fishmeal operations see strong results in the first half of fiscal 2010.
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By SeafoodSource staff
12 May, 2010
The Norwegian seafood producer sees its operating income and EBITDA increase in the first quarter of 2010.
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By SeafoodSource staff
12 May, 2010
The Canadian seafood supplier watches its first-quarter net income jump even though sales slipped.
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By Christine Blank, SeafoodSource contributing editor
12 May, 2010
Revolving fishing closures and reduced catches due to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are making it difficult for fishermen and processors from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle to get by.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
11 May, 2010
Maria Damanaki, the EU’s new fisheries commissioner, lends a hand to ailing French oyster farmers and shares her thoughts on reforming the Common Fisheries Policy.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
11 May, 2010
For the first time since the report’s 1997 debut, no stocks were added to the overfishing list, while four stocks, including Atlantic swordfish, were rebuilt last year.
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By SeafoodSource staff
11 May, 2010
The Seattle-based tilapia producer saw increases across the board in the first quarter of 2010.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
10 May, 2010
At the heart of the problem is a virus that is killing juvenile oysters in all of the key oyster-producing areas in France.
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By Neil Ray, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Bangkok
10 May, 2010
After weeks of political unrest, Thailand is getting back on track to the relief of the country’s seafood industry.
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By SeafoodSource staff
10 May, 2010
The Seattle-based seafood producer completes refinancing all of its outstanding debt, including buying out Coastal Villages Region Fund’s share of the Seattle-based company.
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By Christine Blank, SeafoodSource contributing editor
10 May, 2010
The manager of Maria’s Fresh Seafood Market in Pensacola, Fla., talks about the challenge of sourcing seafood, and battling consumer misconceptions, due to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 May, 2010
Rising fishmeal prices worldwide help push up the fish oil producer's first-quarter revenues, but net income and operating income slip.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 May, 2010
The closure in federal waters now runs through 17 May, and Louisiana has shut down a portion of its waters to shrimping.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 May, 2010
The company hopes to demonstrate its commitment to the area's foodservice industry with the establishment of a distribution hub.
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By SeafoodSource staff
07 May, 2010
Rich LaVecchia, founder of Poseidon Seafood of Charlotte, N.C., will serve as Pacific Seafood's director of special projects-distribution.
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By SeafoodSource staff
06 May, 2010
The acquisition allows the company to increase its share of the Peruvian anchovy quota.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
05 May, 2010
Vigo, Galicia, is the host of the Spanish Association of Seafood Products Manufacturers meeting, which coincides with EU ministers discussing reform of the Common Fisheries Policy.
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By SeafoodSource staff
05 May, 2010
The study, which looks at trawl fish landings over the past 100-plus years, is criticized by Seafish.
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