Cliff White

The Marine Stewardship Council and Alaska fishing industry representatives are pushing back against a decision by Ocean Wise to drop its recommendation of MSC-certified salmon fisheries in Southeast Alaska.

Ocean Wise, a Vancouver, British Columbia, U.S.A.-based nonprofit organization, operates what it describes as a certification program providing recommendations of fisheries and aquaculture operations that meet certain criteria, including

Pakistan’s seafood exports dropped to USD 410 million (EUR 378.2 million) in value in 2023.

That total was down 17.4 percent from the 2022 fiscal year, in which Pakistani seafood exports reached USD 496.6 million (EUR 488.1 million), its record high, and far short of its USD 1 billion (EUR 922 million) goal.

Pakistan exported 200,709 metric tons of seafood in its 2023 fiscal year, down 6.4 percent from the 214,542 MT it exported in 2022,

Peter Pan Seafoods Co-Owner Rodger May and Silver Bay Seafoods, one of the company’s biggest business partners and fierce rivals, are dueling for control of the company’s assets after Peter Pan entered receivership in April 2024.

On 19 July, the Stapleton Group, Peter Pan’s court-appointed receiver, backed Sitka, Alaska, U.S.A.-based Silver Bay’s bid to acquire all of Peter Pan’s canned salmon inventory –

Kolding, Denmark-based salmon-processing firm Vega Salmon has posted its first profit in four years.

The company posted DKK 2.2 billion (USD 321 million, EUR 294.8 million) in revenue and DKK 67.7 million (USD 9.9 million, EUR 9.1 million) in gross profit between the 18 months stretching from July 2022 to the end of 2023. Its EBITDA during the period was DKK 19.5 million (USD 2.8 million, EUR 2.6 million).

Vega Salmon operates a