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 and Via Ocean are selling off their vessels and shutting down operations, revealing the increasingly dire circumstances facing the French tuna-fishing fleet.
Via Ocean, formerly known as Armement Saupiquet, is being liquidated by its current owner, Bolton Foods, via its subsidiary Tri Marine. The Concarneau, France-based company is selling its three French-flagged purse-seine vessels, the Via Avenir, the Via Mistral, Via Alizé
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Australia has mandated all its hospitality venues must display the country of origin of the seafood they serve.
State and federal consumer affairs ministers unanimously agreed to make the change at a meeting on Friday, 24 November, following stakeholder consultation and a cost-benefit analysis. The move had been backed by Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and was a top priority of Seafood Industry Australia, the country’s leading
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New Zealand King Salmon has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with China Resources Food Supply Chain, expanding its distribution in mainland China.
The two companies have engaged in a trading relationship since May 2023, through which New Zealand King Salmon has sold around 60,000 kilograms of product, or 2.5 percent of its total sales.
In 2014, the company pulled out of China, saying it could not supply enough product to meet demand.
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Global shrimp prices are stabilizing at “unfavorably low levels,” pushing many farmers into loss-making situations.
Raw vannamei exports from India were pulling in an average of USD 6.32 (EUR 5.80) per kilo in September, down from USD 7.54 (EUR 6.92) in September 2022 and from USD 6.55 (EUR 6.01) in July 2023 – but up slightly from the USD 6.29 (EUR 5.77) it pulled in in August 2023, according to Shrimp Insights Founder Willem
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The Korean Fisheries Association has expanded a global marketing campaign for South Korean seafood that has opened temporary “pop-up” shops in 17 countries around the world.
As part of the “K-Fresh Journey of Taste” campaign, the association has already put up “pop-up” K·Fish “pop-up” stores in 15 countries, including most recently in Belgium, Canada, and Malaysia. The campaign was recently
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Chittagong, Bangladesh-based Meenhar Group has closed down after a bank filed suit against it seeking BDT 1.78 billion (USD 16.1 million, EUR 14.7 million).
Bangladesh’s One Bank, which had supplied a loan facility to the company since 2011, filed three separate suits against Meenhar Group subsidiaries in July 2023, seeking BDT 790 million (USD 7.2 million, EUR 6.5 million) from Meenhar Sea Foods, BDT 456 million (USD 4.2 million, EUR 3.8
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Rancho Dominguez, California, U.S.A.-based Santa Monica Seafood and Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based Lagoon Seafood have completed expansion projects.
In February 2023, Santa Monica Seafood began construction on a new 26,000-sqaure-foot facility in Elkridge, Maryland, U.S.A. The seafood production, packaging, and warehousing facility has now been completed, according to Krusinski Construction Company.
“Following a partial demolition,
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AquaFounders Capital, founded by former Kingfish Company CEO Ohad Maiman and former Atlantic Sapphire CTO Thue Holm, is changing its funding and development strategy and plans to develop a new recirculating aquaculture system solution and a high-value species farming operation in Europe.
The Amsterdam, the Netherlands-based company was formed earlier this year as an investment company, with the goal of investing in multiple farming, software,
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San Diego, California, U.S.A.-based Catalina Offshore Products has been sold to Beish Holdings, a new company founded by local fishmongers Kathy and Dave Strangman and cattle rancher Jose Chacon.
Dave Rudie, who founded the company in the 1970s, has sold the company in order to retire, according to a press release.
“I’ve worked many years to build Catalina Offshore Products into the strong, successful, and revered company it is
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Ocean Beauty Seafoods’ Echo Falls Smoked Wild Alaskan Sockeye Nuggets and Trident Seafoods’ Kraken Stash IPA Beer Battered Wild Alaska Pollock Fillets won the retail and foodservice awards at the 2023 Alaska Symphony of Seafoods.
The Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation (AFDF) announced the winners at the Pacific Marine Expo on 9 November. The competition, organized by the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation since 1994, is for
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