Cliff White has been the executive editor of SeafoodSource since 2016. Previously, he worked as the senior business reporter for the McClatchy-owned Centre Daily Times in State College, Pennsylvania, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the development of the Marcellus Shale natural gas deposit and the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
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North Sea Seafood is aiming for a bigger market share in Asia.
The Bergen, Norway-headquartered processor and trader of salmon, trout, and whitefish has grown quickly since it was founded in 2011, primarily selling into continental Europe.
But, North Sea Seafood COO Espen Engevik said the company has charted a path to further development through Asia, as well as North America.
“The last four years has brought massive growth for us, but as
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Jason Chua knows Singapore’s seafood preferences like few others.
Chua is the chief executive of Sincere Food, one of the biggest food suppliers, including both wholesale and value-added seafood products, to Singapore’s hotel, retail, and catering (HORECA) sector. Established in 1998, Sincere Food now supplies around 85 percent of the HORECA market in Singapore.
In recent years, the company has acquired Premium Deep Sea Seafood to
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Asia-based seafood start-ups are having a moment.
The seafood industry’s newest unicorn – a start-up that has achieved a USD 1 billion (EUR 902 million) valuation – is Bandung, Indonesia-based eFishery, which offers fish and shrimp farmers an end-to-end platform to access to feed, financing, and markets. And numerous other Asia-headquartered companies, including India’s Captain Fresh, FreshToHome, and Licious have
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The Ukraine war has been blamed for the recent bankruptcy filing of Whittier, Alaska, U.S.A.-based seafood-processing and -trading firm Whittier Seafood.
In a Chapter 11 declaration in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Alaska filed 19 August, Whittier Seafood Owner Alexey Kozlov said his company was brought down by its ties to Marine Fishing International (MFI) and its sister firm JSC Tefida, a Vladivostok, Russia-headquartered
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Grupo Solimeno, a diversified fishing firm based in Mar del Plata, Argentina, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Gava Foods.
Solimeno operates 13 vessels, including three onboard trawlers, three wetfish trawlers, five freezer-beam trawlers, and two squid-jiggers. It recently added the new-builds Luigi and Anita, which have become the two largest vessels in the company’s fleet.
The fleet is large and diverse enough to
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