Chris Chase is the Portland, Maine-based associate editor of SeafoodSource. Previously, he worked covering local issues at the Coastal Journal in Bath, Maine, where he won multiple awards from the Maine Press Association for his news coverage and food reviews. Chris is a graduate of the University of Maine, and got his start in writing by serving as a reporter and later the State Editor of The Maine Campus, an award-winning campus newspaper.
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Chicago, Illinois, U.SA.-headquartered technology solutions provider John Bean Technologies Corporation (JBT) has made another attempt to acquire Garðabær, Iceland-based processing equipment manufacturer Marel – the third such attempt since JBT first tried to so in November 2023.
Marel nixed a takeover bid from JBT in late November 2023 that valued the company at EUR 3.15 (USD 3.43) per share. Marel also later denied a
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The U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control has issued new guidance that closes gaps in pollock tariff categories that were left open in a recent Biden administration order expanding a ban on seafood of Russian origin.
On 22 December 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden issued an executive order that expanded a U.S. ban on Russian seafood that includes imports of products that originated in Russia and were then processed in
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Atlantic Sustainable Catch (ASC) is consolidating its production facilities in New Brunswick, Canada by closing one facility and moving all production to the other amid a Canadian lobster season experiencing high pricing.
The company said it is planning to idle the Atlantic Sustainable Catch facility in Escuminac at the start of the 2024 fishing season. All production at the Escuminac facility will be moved to its facility in Grand-Digue.
The
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Fishing equipment and aquaculture equipment manufacturer Vónin has taken over management of Mørenot Scotland, which will be renamed Vónin UK and will trade as Vónin Scotland, in a move that consolidates the two Hampidjan Group-owned companies.
Hampidjan Group announced its intent to purchase Ålesund, Norway-based Mørenot Group in December 2022 and later purchased and split the company into four
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The 2024 edition of Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America – the largest seafood event in North America – will continue the show's growth trajectory in its 42nd edition.
The event, running from 10 to 12 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. is currently slated for 244,965 net square feet of exhibit space and is still growing, event organizer Diversified Communications said. This growth builds on the momentum set
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Persistent food inflation throughout 2023 drove many customers toward value-focused channels in seafood, and the slowing rate of inflation wasn’t enough to reverse a downward sales trend across most categories of seafood.
The latest year-end survey from consumer behavior data firm Circana shows 55 percent of seafood shoppers looked for sales and deals more often throughout 2023 – either by looking to buy more private-label products,
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The Peruvian Ministry of Production (PRODUCE) closed the country’s second anchovy season on 12 January, leaving more than 25 percent of the fishery’s quota in the water.
Peru’s industrial anchovy fishing fleet launched its second season after the cancelation of the first season of 2023 – a decision that cost the fishery an estimated USD 1.4 billion (EUR 1.3 billion) in lost revenue. The season had been underwhelming
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Fish and shrimp processing equipment manufacturer Norbech has been sold after the company declared bankruptcy in December 2023.
Norbech was founded in 1986 as Uni-Food Technic by Bjarne Normann Jensen. The company’s products include bleeding tanks, de-heading machines, de-slimers, de-scalers, and more essential equipment for the fish and shrimp processing industry.
The company transitioned from Uni-Food Technic to Norbech after Kurt Bech
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Operational data from Rosstat shared by the Russian Federal Fisheries Agency – or Rosrybolovstvo – indicates Russia’s output of seafood products was up 9 percent year over year in the first 11 months of 2023.
The data, shared to Rosrybolovstvo’s website, indicates that Russia’s production between January and November 2023 increased to about 4.1 million metric tons (MT) – an increase of 329,000 MT compared to
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An NGO confirmed to SeafoodSource it has formally filed a recommendation to implement Global Magnitsky (GloMag) sanctions against Chinese companies named in the recent Outlaw Ocean report on labor issues in the U.S. seafood supply chain.
The Outlaw Ocean report revealed evidence that seafood processed by Uyghur labor in China has entered the U.S. supply chain – a violation of the U.S.’s Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act (UFLPA). The
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