Chris Chase

After several consecutive years of impressive growth, the global shrimp aquaculture industry is predicted to remain relatively flat in 2025 – largely due to slowed growth in Ecuador. According to Rabobank Global Seafood Specialist Gorjan Nikolik, the results of a recent survey – performed for the Global Seafood Alliance – found Ecuador’s shrimp production is slowing after averaging an incredible 14 percent year-over-year growth rate for… Read More

The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) has issued its final determinations on countervailing and antidumping duties for shrimp imports for Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, handing out duties to every country listed. DOC launched an investigation into imposing countervailing and antidumping duties for frozen warmwater shrimp against the four countries in November 2023 after the American Shrimp Processors Association filed petitions… Read More

Four years on from the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit, the U.K. seafood industry is still roughly GBP 1 billion (USD 1.3 billion, EUR 1.2 billion) behind where it was in 2019. 

Prior to the U.K. officially leaving the European Union in early 2020, government officials promised seafood sector growth would continue to be supported. Despite the promises, multiple aspects of the industry are struggling, with some calling on the government for

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Artificial intelligence (AI) could be the key to increasing the efficiency and productivity of the seafood industry, while boosting its reputation at the same time. Many seafood companies and regulatory bodies are already looking to AI to help either increase efficiency or improve sustainability. Seafood companies, including processing, fishing, and aquaculture companies, are all using AI in multiple ways, from identifying when a salmon in a… Read More

GenusWave’s targeted acoustic startle technology and Tiny Fish’s new method of utilizing salmon smolt that were previously euthanized and discarded have won the Global Seafood Alliance’s 2024 Responsible Seafood Innovation Awards. The 12th edition of the awards featured a fisheries and an aquaculture category, with GenusWave winning the fisheries category and Tiny Fish winning the aquaculture category. Both winners were announced during… Read More

A Canadian court has rmade a ruling in alignment with Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans' (DFO) recent decision that reopened the northern cod 2J3KL fishery.

The DFO reopened the fishery, located off the coast of Newfoundland, after a 32-year moratorium despite objections from the Fish, Food, and Allied Workers (FFAW) union. The union claimed the DFO’s quota allocations, which included 1,080 metric tons (MT) of quota for the

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