Cliff White is the executive editor of SeafoodSource. He has 15 years of experience as a professional journalist, including serving 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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Sapmer has received a EUR 20 million (USD 21.6 million) investment from existing shareholder Cana Tera that will keep it operating near Reunion Island.
In November 2023, Sapmer, which is based on France’s Reunion Island, a territory in the Indian Ocean, announced that due to financial difficulties, it had sold its four Mauritius-flagged tuna-fishing vessels and was looking to divest from its Reunion fleet.
In a 6 February press
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Jay Lugar is the head of fisheries for the Marine Stewardship Council. In an SeafoodSource interview, Lugar addressed in more detail the problems with MSC's Version 3.0 standard that have resulted in a delay in its implementation.
On 9 February, activist coalition Make Stewardship Count, which has been sharply critical of the Marine Stewardship Council for years, said it opposed the delay.
“This delay is a massive step backward both for
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Bioriginal, a subsidiary of Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, Canada-based Cooke Inc., has acquired POS Biosciences Corp. from Canopy Growth Corp.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada-based Bioriginal produces ingredients and supplements for the human and pet nutrition industries. It has eight manufacturing facilities, 19 warehouses, and offices in Canada; Anaheim, California, U.S.A.; Den Bommel, the Netherlands; and Yokohama, Japan.
POS (Proteins,
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The Marine Stewardship Council is revising its approach to its implementation of version 3.0 of its fisheries standard after receiving numerous complaints.
Published in October 2022, MSC Version 3.0 came into effect for new fisheries in May 2023, with previously certified fisheries given six years to enter compliance. The standard review and update for version 3.0 began in 2018 and was considered the most comprehensive review ever
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The U.S. government has agreed to a settlement with two American Seafoods subsidiaries to resolve penalties related to alleged Jones Act violations stemming from the use of a dead-end railway in Canada.
Facing a deadline of 5 February set by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason, Kloosterboer International Forwarding (KIF) and Alaska Reefer Management (ARM) filed for dismissal of the case after they “entered into a settlement
… Read MoreDatassential’s Kelley Fechner: Creative bowl options, LTOs, kids’ menus can unlock QSR seafood sales
Fish is not the most beloved protein in the U.S. market, but Datassential Vice President of Customer Experience Kelley Fechner believes that with a bit more visibility, it could start climbing up the rankings for many consumers.
In Datassential’s most recent survey of American protein preferences, 61 percent of the U.S. population said they love chicken. Bacon was second at 59 percent. Shrimp lagged behind at 49 percent, and fish was even
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McDonald’s, Walmart, and Cargill are among the hundreds of U.S. food brands whose production processes have been tied to prison labor by a recent Associated Press investigation.
The AP report, published 29 January, traced at least USD 200 million (EUR 215 million) worth of sales of farmed goods and livestock to products grown by U.S. prisoners over the past six years. The products include soy, corn, and wheat bought by aquafeed producers
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Poul Andrias Jacobsen is the marketing manager for Glyvrar, Faroe Islands-based Bakkafrost, which produced 90,600 metric tons of farmed salmon in 2022 and had revenue of USD 1 billion (EUR 900 million) in the year, ranking it in the top 10 of farmed salmon producers in the world. It expanded into Scotland in 2019 after purchasing a majority stake in the Scottish Salmon Company.
Jacobsen sat down with SeafoodSource to discuss the Faroese origins
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Bandung, Indonesia-based aquaculture technology startup eFishery, which has a valuation exceeding USD 1.3 billion (EUR 1.2 billion), is expanding beyond Southeast Asia.
The company, which offers fish and shrimp farmers an end-to-end platform granting access to feed, financing, and markets, has completed its first commercial pilot testing in India, “marking a significant milestone in its global expansion journey.”
"Beginning with
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Phillips Foods has formed a Canadian subsidiary to purchase South Shore Seafoods, which has been operating under the direction of a court-appointed restructuring firm after it defaulted on its debt.
Bloomfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada-based South Shore Seafoods owes over CAD 56 million (USD 41 million, EUR 39 million) to creditors, including CAD 26 million (USD 19.2 million, EUR 18.1 million) in principle in outstanding secured loans
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