Seafood supply chain industry news covering seafood distribution, processing, imports and exports and market analysis.
By SeafoodSource staff
03 September, 2010
Aker BioMarine ASA on Thursday announced that through a partnership with Lindsey Goldberg LLC it acquired a 100 percent interest in fish-oil supplement manufacturer Epax Holding AS from Austevoll Seafood ASA for NOK 561 million (USD 91.9 million, EUR 71.4 million). The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of this year.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
03 September, 2010
U.S. per-capita seafood consumption totaled 15.8 pounds last year, according to figures the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released on Friday. That’s down from 16 pounds in 2008 and the lowest amount since 2002’s 15.6 pounds.
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By Chris Dove, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Malaga, Spain
01 September, 2010
Members of the Alliance of Liberal Democrats for Europe (ALDE) attended
a meeting of the European Parliament Fisheries Committee (PECH) this
week to further examine the draft report establishing a long-term plan
for managing the Bay of Biscay anchovy stock.
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By April Forristall, SeafoodSource assistant editor
01 September, 2010
Next week’s inaugural Asian Seafood Exposition in Hong Kong features 101 exhibiting companies and organizations from 21 countries, including six country and regional pavilions.
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By SeafoodSource staff
31 August, 2010
Dutch seafood supplier Culimer on Tuesday announced that it moved its Chinese headquarters to Beijing’s Fengtai district.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
30 August, 2010
The claim of conspiracy to restrain trade has been withdrawn from a class-action lawsuit filed by two Brookings, Ore., fishermen accusing Pacific Seafood Group and its owner, Frank Dulcich, of violating federal antitrust laws.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 August, 2010
A coalition of 31 consumer, animal welfare and environmental groups and fishermen’s associations is criticizing the potential approval of genetically modified salmon by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 August, 2010
The Faeroese Pelagic Organization (FPO) is weighing in on the escalating mackerel strife pitting the Faeroe Islands and Iceland against the European Union and Norway.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
27 August, 2010
Upstream seafood players in France must shed individualism and favor an industrial dimension to meet the demands of today's global seafood industry, according to a French distributor.
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By SeafoodSource staff
27 August, 2010
Marine Farms subsidiary Lakeland Group on Friday announced that it stopped harvesting salmon at all of its Hoganess Salmon farm sites on the west coast of Shetland.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 August, 2010
Pescanova USA has pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Miami to importing nearly 97,000 kilograms of Chilean sea bass valued at about USD 1.2 million (EUR 945,100) in violation of the Antarctic Marine Living Resources Convention Act, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) reported on Tuesday.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 August, 2010
Biotechnology firm AquaBounty Technologies of Waltham, Mass., on Wednesday announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will meet next month to discuss and potentially approve its pending application for its genetically modified farmed salmon.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
26 August, 2010
Articulating a direct link between quality seafood products and their wholesale suppliers has brought heightened visibility and gains to French seafood distributor Pomona Terre Azur.
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By Steven Hedlund, SeafoodSource editor
26 August, 2010
As Scottish fishermen and politicians get vocal about the future of the North Atlantic mackerel stock, Icelandic Fisheries Minister Jon Bjarnason says he’s committed to settling the strife that has his country and the Faeroes pitted against the EU and Norway.
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By SeafoodSource staff
24 August, 2010
An Icelandic-based investment fund has acquired the parent company of Icelandic Group.
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By Lindsey Partos, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Paris
24 August, 2010
European Union Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki is prepared to personally meet with Icelandic and Faroese fisheries officials to head off the escalating “mackerel war” pitting the EU and Norway against the two non-EU nations, Damanaki’s spokesperson tells SeafoodSource.
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By SeafoodSource staff
23 August, 2010
On September, Emirates SkyCargo will begin offering cargo flights between Dakar and the Middle East, making it the only direct link between Senegal and the Middle East.
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By SeafoodSource staff
23 August, 2010
Scottish MEP Struan Stevenson is the latest politician to weigh in on the mackerel war that has the European Union and Norway pitted against Iceland and the Faeroe Islands.
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By SeafoodSource staff
23 August, 2010
Seafish on Monday appointed Dr. Paul Williams as interim CEO, effective in October.
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By SeafoodSource staff
23 August, 2010
Thanks to a new online tool developed by Northport Fisheries of Snohomish, Wash., when the Alaska King crab fishery opens this month, distributors and retailers will be able to place and track orders around the clock.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
23 August, 2010
Earlier this month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration approved amendments to the Pacific Fishery Management Council’s plan for the West Coast trawl groundfish fishery to implement an individual fishing quota (IFQ) program beginning in January 2011. But some in the industry are getting cold feet on the 23rd hour.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 August, 2010
Icelandic Group manages to refinance EUR 65 million in long-term debt in the first half of 2010, as well as more than double it pre-tax profit.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 August, 2010
Lerøy Seafood Group’s turnover and operating profit increase notably in the second quarter of 2010.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 August, 2010
Mauritius is the fourth state to enter the agreement, joining the Cook Islands, Seychelles and European Union.
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By SeafoodSource staff
18 August, 2010
The new www.StarKist.com features meal solutions, coupons, promotional information, socialization with friends and health and nutritional information.
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