Seafood supply chain industry news covering seafood distribution, processing, imports and exports and market analysis.
By SeafoodSource staff
04 June, 2013
As part of its decision to become an integrated protein company, Marine Harvest on Tuesday announced a plan to strengthen its value added products (VAP) division.
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By Chris Loew, SeafoodSource contributing editor, reporting from Osaka, Japan
04 June, 2013
Under negotiations since 2010, the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement's main impact on the U.S. seafood market would be an influx of farmed Vietnamese and Malaysian shrimp — to the detriment of Gulf Coast shrimpers.
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By SeafoodSource staff
04 June, 2013
Firefighters were battling a two-alarm fire at Pacific Seafood's
Warrenton, Ore., plant. The company has reported all employees are out
of the building.
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By Christine Blank, SeafoodSource contributing editor
03 June, 2013
The Copper River sockeye salmon season’s third opening was the highest third opener on record, the Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) reports.
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 June, 2013
Norwegian seafood farming company Cermaq has hired a second financial
adviser, as the company plans for its future after rejecting a buyout
bid.
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 June, 2013
A group of fishermen convicted of breaching fishing quotas during last year’s “black fish” operation are in line to receive millions of pounds in damages because the Scottish Government failed to follow due process, the Sunday Herald has learned.
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 June, 2013
WIth a trade agreement between South Africa and the European Union (EU)
still being negotiated, the country could miss the boat on taking
advantage of the EU’s move last week to drastically reduce fishing in
its waters to save dwindling fish stocks.
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 June, 2013
The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) has
protested against a preliminary determination by the U.S. Department of
Commerce (DOC) on subsidy margins for frozen shrimp imports from
Vietnam.
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 June, 2013
Fisheries ministers from the Maritime provinces have named a
three-member independent panel to examine the factors impacting lobster
prices in the region.
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By Melissa Wood, SeaFood Business assistant editor
03 June, 2013
Iceland's President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson visited Portland, Maine, on
Friday to celebrate the move made by the Icelandic shipping company
Eimskip to make Portland its new North American operation center.
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By Mark Godfrey, SeafoodSource contributing editor reporting from Beijing, China
03 June, 2013
Some of China’s largest seafood processing firms are seeking to raise cash this summer for capacity expansion as subsidies garner mixed results.
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By SeafoodSource staff
03 June, 2013
Tokyo-Nippon Suisan Kaisha (Nissui) on Monday announced it agreed to sell all its stocks in frozen seafood producer Leuchtturm Beteiligungs- und Holding Germany AG (Leuchtturm) to a consortium of investors led by Pacific Andes International Holdings.
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By SeafoodSource staff
31 May, 2013
Norwegian fish farming company Cermaq has rejected a buyout offer from
its rival, Marine Harvest, according to statements from both companies
released today.
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By SeafoodSource staff
31 May, 2013
Shares in shrimp exporters eased, led by a 2.1 percent fall in Thai Union Frozen Products, amid concerns about potential anti-dumping tariffs on shrimp exports to the United States.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 May, 2013
Members of Japanese fisheries cooperatives staged a rally Wednesday in Tokyo to seek full-scale financial help from the government as rising fuel prices due to the rapid depreciation of the yen hits the industry.
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By SeafoodSource staff
30 May, 2013
In this edition of SeafoodSourceTV, Editor Sean Murphy talks with Ignacio Kleiman, managing partner of Antarctica Advisors, about the annual Top 25 listing of the largest seafood suppliers in North America, and what the list tells us we can expect to see in the industry's future.
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By Christine Blank, SeafoodSource contributing editor
30 May, 2013
A Louisiana House of Representatives committee on Wednesday approved a measure shifting operation of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board to the state’s Culture, Recreation, and Tourism department.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 May, 2013
Genetically modified Atlantic salmon that were cross-bred with wild brown trout had offspring that grew faster than the GM salmon, and outcompeted other fish for food, potentially posing a risk to wild fish species, a new study has found.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 May, 2013
The Asian Seafood Exposition, one of the region’s most important
exhibitions for buyers and suppliers of fresh, frozen and packaged
seafood, today announced that there will be a special focus on premium
seafood products when the show returns to Hong Kong this year from
September 3-5, 2013.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 May, 2013
The Seafood Industry Research Fund (SIRF)’s board of directors has
announced it is creating a new research fund in memory of Louisiana’s
Mike Voisin.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 May, 2013
The Australian Tuna Association is extremely happy that next season's quota has been increased by ten per cent.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 May, 2013
New Zealand on Tuesday at the country’s parliament launched its seafood industry body, Seafood New Zealand.
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By SeafoodSource staff
29 May, 2013
Global Fresh Foods (GFF), a California-based company that naturally extends the shelf life of fresh proteins, on Wednesday announced it successfully ocean freighted 40,000 pounds of fresh salmon from Chile to California without the use of polystyrene or ice.
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By James Wright, SeaFood Business senior editor
29 May, 2013
The U.S. Department of Commerce announced its preliminary determinations on frozen warmwater shrimp from China, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
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By SeafoodSource staff
28 May, 2013
Marine Harvest is still negotiating an exact figure for its takeover bid
for rival Cermaq, but the company announced today that it intends to
continue pursuing its bid.
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