Chris Chase

Captain Fresh CEO and Founder Utham Gowda is a self-professed outsider to the seafood industry who now holds the reins of a major player on multiple continents. Incorporated in June 2020, the supply chain platform has raised billions of dollars and purchased major seafood companies like CenSea in 2024 and Spanish tuna giant Frime in March of this year. The company’s stated mission is to connect the dots across the seafood supply chain from… Read More

The latest edition of Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global marked the 20th year that Turkey had a national pavilion for the country’s seafood exporters. A lot has changed since it first hosted the pavilion, Istanbul Fisheries and Animal Products Exporters Association Vice President Ogulcan Kamal told SeafoodSource during the event, which ran from 21 to 23 April in Barcelona, Spain. The pavilion at this year's show hosted 16 different… Read More

Tarm, Denmark-based Runi is continuing to see adoption of its compacting machines which provide a solution for expanded polystyrene (EPS). Runi has been manufacturing compaction equipment for EPS – also known by the brand name Styrofoam – since the mid-1990s. Runi Sales Manager Jens Kristian Kristensen told SeafoodSource during Seafood Processing Global, which ran from 21 to 23 April in Barcelona, Spain, the seafood industry has been… Read More

Danish seafood-processing equipment company Carsoe announced a strategic partnership with Industrikulde days after unveiling its new heading and gutting machine at Seafood Processing Global (SPG). Carsoe Marketing Manager Julie Drustrup told SeafoodSource during the expo – which runs from 21 to 23 April in Barcelona, Spain – that the new machine has already generated a lot of interest in processing companies looking for a new solution.… Read More

Zeeland, Netherlands-based The Kingfish Company is continuing to hone in its yellowtail recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) as it works to become a major producer in its second decade as a company. Kingfish has been continuously developing a land-based yellowtail RAS, beginning with an initial Phase 1A module that produced 500 metric tons (MT), gradually building that up to its current maximum capacity of 3,500 MT. Kingfish Commercial… Read More

Gigante Salmon has transitioned to a fully operational salmon farm after receiving the final completion certificate from the Rødøy municipality. Gigante Salmon said in March that 2025 marked its transition from a development project to a fully-fledged salmon producer; in its Q1 2026 report, the company said it is now out of the construction phase. It harvested 930 metric tons (MT) of head-on gutted salmon in the quarter, with an average… Read More

In 1986, Dayseaday Group got its start in a 40-square-meter space as a small seafood company, with founders Henk van Veen and Jelle van Veen hand-filleting products for a small array of customers. Forty years later, the Urk, Netherlands-based business is expanding its existing space by thousands of square meters as demand for its products outstripped its ability to provide them. “We kept on growing and growing, and now the company has 250… Read More

Finland-based Spectral Blue is presenting a new way of sanitizing surfaces inside seafood-processing facilities at the 2026 Seafood Expo Global/Seafood Processing Global, running from 21 through 23 April in Barcelona, Spain. Spectral Blue has created a patented multi-wavelength high-intensity (MWHI) antimicrobial blue light that the company said is designed to keep processing environments sanitized in a non-chemical way. The technology can run… Read More

Norway’s seafood export market trended positively in 2025 for every region in the world – except for the U.S.  “The E.U., U.K., and China all grew 6 or 7 percent last year. The U.S. is the only big market with a decrease in the import value, and we can imagine what is going on there,” Norwegian Seafood Council (NSC) Analyst Eivind Hestvik Brækkan said ahead of the 2026 Seafood Expo Global, which runs from 21 to 23 April in Barcelona,… Read More

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced it seized roughly 50,000 shark fins as part of a coordinated enforcement action. USFWS said it seized the shipments in October 2025 as part of “Operation Thunder,” which was kicked off by inspectors discovering a shipment of shark fins in Anchorage, Alaska. The investigation found additional shipments moving through Anchorage; Louisville, Kentucky; and Cincinnati, Ohio, transiting from… Read More