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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The tide appears to be turning after a period of instability in Spain’s seafood industry.
On 3 October, Actemsa won court approval of a restructuring plan that will see the A Coruña, Spain-headquartered seafood firm avoid bankruptcy.
Actemsa, which operates a 12,000-square-meter processing plant as well as a canning facility in Brazil, filed a pre-bankruptcy notice on 27 October 2023, revealing EUR 114 million (USD 120.5 million) in
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Aker BioMarine CEO Matts Johansen recently attended an executive roundtable aimed at discussing solutions for reaching climate targets, hosted by the Clinton Global Initiative on 23 September. The panel was moderated by U.S. Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate John Podesta, and was attended by former U.S. President Bill Clinton, California Governor Gavin Newsom, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, World Trade Organization
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Rodger May had his winning bid for Peter Pan Seafood’s remaining assets officially approved on 3 October.
Judge Steven Olsen of the King County Superior Court in the U.S. state of Washington approved May’s USD 37.3 million (EUR 33.6 million) bid for the assets, which beat out a bid by rival firm Silver Bay Seafoods in a court-supervised auction process that took place in mid-September.
May was backed in his effort by Peter
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Fiji’s seafood industry is back on its feet after the Covid-19 pandemic and is seeking to expand its international exports, according to representatives of two of the country’s largest firms.
Pacific Fishing Company, or Pafco, is running double shifts at its tuna-canning facility in Levuka, Fiji, according to CEO Saiyad Raiyum.
“Supply of fish has been really good. So far this year, we've been doing really well,” Raiyum
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Clackamas, Oregon, U.S.A.-based Pacific Seafood is involved in at least three lawsuits related to the operation of its Galveston Shrimp Company subsidiary.
The most recent, filed 23 September, involves a suit brought by the company’s former finance director, Justin Ottman, who claims his employment was wrongfully terminated after he raised concerns about potential fraud involving Galveston Shrimp Company (GSC), a shrimp processor based in
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