Seafood supply chain industry news covering seafood distribution, processing, imports and exports and market analysis.
By SeafoodSource staff
27 December, 2012
Mickey MacDonald has snuffed out the possibility of a Cooke Aquaculture Inc. takeover of Clearwater Seafood Inc.
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By SeafoodSource staff
27 December, 2012
Prawns were the most popular big-ticket item on Christmas dinner tables
across Australia this year with abundant supplies and discount pricing
making them more accessible than ever.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 December, 2012
Seafood companies will adjust their business strategies and
organizational structures in order to achieve their targets for 2013,
which is forecast to be no less difficult than this year.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 December, 2012
Despite a ban by European Union on import of Pakistani fish and
fish-related products, the export of seafood is picking up as the local
industry makes inroads in new markets.
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By SeafoodSource staff
26 December, 2012
Prices
of tiger and white-legged shrimp in Tien Giang Province have been on
the rise over the past month, bringing big gains to farmers.
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By James Wright, SeaFood Business senior editor
26 December, 2012
SeaFood Business’ Senior Editor takes a quick look at the top
10 stories that impacted the U.S. seafood market in 2012.
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By SeafoodSource staff
24 December, 2012
Newfoundland and Labrador has made a deal to allow one of its largest seafood companies to ship unprocessed yellowtail flounder offshore in return for a guarantee of jobs at a fish plant.
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By SeafoodSource staff
24 December, 2012
North Lake Seafoods is officially bankrupt after a P.E.I. Supreme Court judge’s ruling Thursday.
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By SeafoodSource staff
23 December, 2012
Mintlaw-based Macduff Shellfish has acquired the U.K.’s largest scallop fishing fleet, Scott Trawlers, in a ground-breaking deal for the two businesses, backed by Royal Bank of Scotland.
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By SeafoodSource staff
21 December, 2012
Eco-friendly fishing
method was highlighted at a program organized at Tharuvaikulam coast on
Wednesday.
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By SeafoodSource staff
21 December, 2012
Clean Seas Tuna is fighting for survival after failing to find a
desperately needed partner for its troubled yellowtail kingfish
business.
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By SeafoodSource staff
21 December, 2012
Seafood companies have begged the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) to allow them to borrow money in foreign currencies until the end of 2013 to help them overcome the current difficulties.
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By SeafoodSource staff
21 December, 2012
Eastern Fisheries Inc. has temporarily suspended operations at its
Hassey Street plant for renovations to meet the requirements for BRC
certification, the company said in a news release Wednesday night.
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By SeafoodSource staff
21 December, 2012
Fishing regulators on Thursday delayed voting on huge cuts to the catch of New England fishermen after repeated and emotional warnings that the reductions would finish off the flailing industry.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 December, 2012
Following the success of its new U.K. marketing campaign, the Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) has announced plans to open a London office.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 December, 2012
Vancouver-based Skuna Bay is now offering its Vancouver Island
Craft-Raised Salmon to the upper Midwest, following the forming of a new
distribution partnership with The Fish Guys of Minneapolis, Minn.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 December, 2012
South African seafood processor Irvin and Johnson (I&J) is revamping its on-shore fish-processing in Cape Town with Marel equipment.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 December, 2012
Norwegian farmed salmon has been so heavily marketed in Russia, that
Russians are no longer buying their own wild fish, claims the chairman
of the Russian Fishing Council, Aleksandr Saveljev. Russia is now one of
the world’s biggest importers of Norwegian seafood.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 December, 2012
Kjell Bjordal, COO of Cermaq’s feed division EWOS will step down 15 February 2013.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 December, 2012
With fishery regulators poised to impose devastating cuts Thursday on the New England fleet, blame for the disappearance of once-abundant cod and flounder populations is shifting from fishermen to a new culprit: the changing ocean.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 December, 2012
Growing domestic incomes and changing life styles of the average consumer is fueling demand for many high value seafood species in China, creating abundant opportunities for U.S. exporters.
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By SeafoodSource staff
20 December, 2012
A Nanaimo-based cannery has bought Raincoast Trading, a sustainable canned seafood company based in North Delta.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 December, 2012
The total value of catch of Icelandic vessels totaled ISK 122.8 billion (USD 980 million, EUR 737 million) for the first nine months of the 2012, up from ISK 145 billion (USD 1.2 billion, EUR 870 million) during the same time period in 2011.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 December, 2012
Thai Union frozen products has announced it has bought an additional 2,989,999 shares of Pakfood for THB 54 per share.
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By SeafoodSource staff
19 December, 2012
Marine Harvest has completed the acquisition of Morpol it announced it was beginning earlier this week.
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